Cultural Studies Wars

Chris Rojek has written a great response to an article by Bill Schwarz published in Cultural Studies recently. Schwartz’s piece was couched as a review of Rojek’s book but didn’t really fulfil the function of that genre (even less than I did when I reviewed Rojek’s book [pdf], and that’s saying something). According to Rojek, [...]

Smart is sexy: Studying gender, work & technology

What kind of project do you think the ARC would fund me to do? I’ve been racking my brains the last few weeks trying to get two years of ideas together to write a Discovery Postdoc application. They aren’t easy to get, they take a stack of work and I’m trying to do this at [...]

Happy Dismissal Day

From Catri via Crikey: [Requires knowledge of Australian political history].

The welfare of work

Ok, I realise it’s getting depressing around here, so time for a plug. I am really enjoying this ongoing thread at k-punk given my fantasies of unemployment as opposed to book writing. But the following passage is really helpful in thinking about my embryonic workplace culture project: Nothing defines the Right so thoroughly as their [...]

Questions I am pondering

Why do I persist in trying to write the same section of the same introductory chapter when I have five other chapters to write? Why do I keep getting emails saying ‘ARC applications are due at exactly the same time as your book, Mel’ (and there’s nothing you can do about it because you are [...]

Rock the boat

I just heard Nadia drumming at her house down the road. It reminded me to post this gig she’s organising on the weekend, featuring all the Brisvegas indie kids you know and love:

An eternity of wet

We shared an umbrella between us and raised random points of conversation as we navigated our way through waterways that had sprouted within grooves in the sidewalk and lakes that have begun to form at each street corner. Rainy days make people moody; greyness is a contagious state. But perhaps, it is simply because sunny [...]

Summer Vacation Research Scholarships

Your chance to be an apprentice researcher! In 2005-6, the Centre for the History of European Discourses will offer two Summer Vacation Research Scholarships to students who have completed three years of study in Arts, and who are planning to do honours or a research higher degree. The scholarships are for research work under the [...]

Enthusiasm

How good is this? Just updating my list of consumables, someone who’s also been listening to The Mars Volta: “My favorite album of all time, out of all music I’ve ever heard in my entire life. I love it.” That’s what my job’s missing.

What time is it?

Kylie’s right. I have no idea why I’ve been imagining work isn’t arduous until now… maybe I’ve swallowed all the rhetoric that cultural elites in ivory towers have cushy jobs and bludge off the taxpayer? Well, it’s also because I grew up on a farm, and I know what it’s like to do hard physical [...]

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