home cooked theory

The History of Theory Begins

Last night I was excited to attend the first in a new series of seminars being run by our neighbours upstairs, The Centre for the History of European Discourses. Even the name of this centre makes me quake a little in its momentousness, and it’s currently home to some of the most formidable thinkers and [...]

In favour of new ideas

Things like this make me miss Sydney a lot. Sandy, Glen and others: please keep us updated.

Chills

I have the Splendour sniffles. So even tho I really want to talk about this guy, and the intriguing limitations of Josh Homme’s vocab, I’m going to bed really early to catch up on sleep and enjoy not being around tens of thousands of overstimulated young people with designer gumboots.

Splendour Weekender

I’m off to Splendour in the Grass in Byron Bay. Seems they’re even blogging it this year. I’ll say hi to Josh Homme for ya.

More on the challenges of youth

Bourdieu again, this time maybe (?) a little easier to read:
Endowed with the same academic titles of nobililty, that is with the same essence, the young and the old have merely reached different stages of fulfilment of their essence. The career is merely the time of waiting for the essence to be fulfilled. The [...]

Half-baked response to Glen

When he asked for more detail on this. I’m finding it really useful to read Bourdieu’s work to get to the bottom of my ambivalence about academia as a vocation – an ambivalence which I think is fairly crucial to resolve in the process of writing my book. Or maybe ambivalence is the tension [...]

Simon During @ UQ

Thursday, 28 July 2005
4-6pm (participants are requested to be seated by 4.00 pm)
James Birrell Room at the UQ Staff & Graduates Club

‘Socialist ends: The British New Left, cultural studies and the emergence of academic “theory” ’
This paper presents a brief pre-history of academic theory as it developed within anglophone Cultural Studies. It examines [...]

Ladies online

Ladyfest Brisbane now has a blog for you to tell them how much you love them. Some time soon there may be a guest blogger posting there that you may know quite well…

Dying to blog

Interesting: for a memorial lecture later in the year, Axel is trying to establish a list of blogging’s first martyrs. Have your say here. In light of this furtive discussion as well, the premise of such an exercise makes me wonder whether the act of memorialisation is the principal institutionalising moment for a new medium [...]

Spam :(

Is anyone else suffering a deluge of comment spam at the moment? I thought Wordpress was going to put an end to all this, but maybe the sneaky spammers have caught up. If you know of any tough fightin’ tools, could you possibly let me know? Or maybe I should update my version of WP? [...]

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