home cooked theory

Brisbane Real Estate 101

Talkin’ the talk
I am so popular now that I am looking for a house. My phone doesn’t stop ringing with agents trying to find out my thoughts. On the weekend I looked at probably 10 places in total. I now understand a few things:
1. ‘Charming Queenslander’ means a tiny house on a derelict [...]

Normally I hate these posts

But I’m weirdly excited that someone came to my blog searching for “IKEA academic OR journal OR article “cultural studies” (Google)”. I can feel a new blog sub-title coming on…

We haven’t come a long way, with babies

I’ve been meaning to link to Sandy’s account of Wendy Brown’s talk at ASCP, which was so good that it saved me writing up my notes! But when I went back there just now I found some pretty alarming comments had appeared since I first read it. It’s fascinating to me that in a post [...]

Blogging and Gender, continued

At the moment I’m working on my chapter for the Uses of Blogs collection being put together by Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs. I appreciated the help last time I wrote about this so I thought I’d ask for more. From what I can tell Clancy Ratliff is the most recognised blogger writing on gender [...]

More proof that the world has gone mad

Sales for fake mud are booming. Thank you News Radio, you made my Sunday.

7 more sleeps

Cloudy Bay Lagoon
This time next week I will be arriving in Hobart for 10 days of recharging. I feel calmer just looking at this picture, which is taken just outside my Dad’s place. I hope it’s not too cold!

Suburban intricacies

Kangaroo Point
I’m off to see this house today. It’s my first appointment with an agent so I’m a bit nervous. I am really trying to find something that’s closer to West End or Highgate Hill, but that area is becoming really expensive. On the one hand this is because it’s so close to the [...]

The History of Theory Seminar Series

Semester 2 2005 – Semester 1 2006
Organised by the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland
The History of Theory seminar presents a unique opportunity to participate in a series of discussions of the ‘moment of theory’, led by speakers who played an important role in it. The ‘moment of theory’ is a [...]

The limits of legacies

When I made it back to the conference from dropping my stuff at Catri’s I had consumed nearly enough tea to reach my third wind for the day, having had very little sleep and a 6am flight from Vegas. Why do I get so anxious before going away? Anyway so I didn’t much rate my [...]

Chilly conference chicks

Bright Young Philosophy Things
After morning tea I headed to the panel on affect, where the now Dr Anna Hickey-Moody gave a great paper, ‘Folding Flesh into Thought: Vitalism & reading theory through movement’. It was based on her work on intellectual disability which I’d heard a bit of before but still learned plenty. Then [...]

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