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Responsibility for the Other

Next I snuck into another room to hear Ros Diprose, one of the conference organisers and a very influential philosopher within the Sydney gender studies circles I’m familiar with. Her paper, ‘Nietzsche & Levinas: Self-Responsibility and Responsibility for the Other’ discussed the problem of anonymous government: what happens when there is a crisis in morality [...]

Conference blogging

I’m not sure how well or how accurately I will do this, but here is the first of a few summaries of what I saw at ASCP. As a lot of the material was out of my usual area, it’s likely that there will be some major misrepresentations in what follows, so please correct bits [...]

Proud spaces

I hope she doesn’t mind the attention, but this blog, and this post in particular, makes me convinced all over again about the importance of this medium. And while I’m on the topic, Saturday is the Queer Pride Rally and Fair Day in Brisbane. We’re starting a bloggers’ posse, so get in touch if you [...]

Observation

I have more pages of notes from the philosophy conference in Sydney than the combined total of every cultural studies conference I’ve ever been to. After every day I would want to go straight home to sleep so I could process all the information I’d learned. Brain cells, I hope you forgive me for previously [...]

When inspiration finally strikes

Today was the first day in a long time that I can remember writing until it got dark. No lunch break, no leaving the house (well, except to hang out washing), no watching the clock (apart from that wonderfully incidental kind of way, as in ‘Wow, I’ve been sitting here a whole ‘nother hour and [...]

Newbie

One of my favourite people in the world has started a blog. Expect feminism, modernism and general wit.

Back to Sydney

Marking is over for another semester, yay! A highlight this time round was one student’s total decimation of an Andrew Bolt column. It made for very pleasant reading I must say. Tomorrow I’m heading to Sydney *very* early in the morning for some listening and general schmoozing at this conference. With Judith Butler in Australia [...]

Theory in the classroom and in the plural

The past week I’ve been steeped in the theory and practice of pedagogy. I’m working on a paper about teaching cultural theory at the same time as I wade through end of semester assignments. Sounds like a symbiotic exercise, doesn’t it? But I’ve been struggling to funnel my many thoughts. I’m writing the paper in [...]

Territory or Fraternity?

Update your RSS feeds everyone, Glen has just signalled war to the frat house project. He is the second person to do this in a week. I fear this could get very messy…

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