Comments on: Getting organised http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2006/06/15/getting-organised/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:51:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Crouching Rash http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2006/06/15/getting-organised/#comment-47235 Crouching Rash Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:44:54 +0000 http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2006/06/15/getting-organised/#comment-47235 Let's not leave the abject out of it ... my current "Mutual Obligations" diary is emblazoned with the slogan "Options For Your Future" (I am obliged by Centrelink to contact 12 employers per fortnight, even though my current income support is of the level $0.00, and has been, for the most part, since outgrowing my APA scholarship; needless to say, freelance or "honorary" academic work is not classified as a valid "Mutual Obligation" activity--unless, of course, it is paid. Which it isn't.). And speaking of "flexibility," lets not forget its meaning in terms of globalization; "flexible production" is the prerogative of multinationals which, without fail, leave behind immiserated communities and local ecologies. Great to see that the spirit of the humanities (knowledge for knowledge's sake) is alive and well in Cultural Studies: "whether or not I get funding to do it," indeed! How very noble of you! Let’s not leave the abject out of it … my current “Mutual Obligations” diary is emblazoned with the slogan “Options For Your Future” (I am obliged by Centrelink to contact 12 employers per fortnight, even though my current income support is of the level $0.00, and has been, for the most part, since outgrowing my APA scholarship; needless to say, freelance or “honorary” academic work is not classified as a valid “Mutual Obligation” activity–unless, of course, it is paid. Which it isn’t.).

And speaking of “flexibility,” lets not forget its meaning in terms of globalization; “flexible production” is the prerogative of multinationals which, without fail, leave behind immiserated communities and local ecologies.

Great to see that the spirit of the humanities (knowledge for knowledge’s sake) is alive and well in Cultural Studies: “whether or not I get funding to do it,” indeed! How very noble of you!

]]> By: home cooked theory » Blog Archive » Abstract writing http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2006/06/15/getting-organised/#comment-47166 home cooked theory » Blog Archive » Abstract writing Wed, 28 Jun 2006 04:27:17 +0000 http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2006/06/15/getting-organised/#comment-47166 [...] Yes, if the ARC application process has taught me anything, it’s that I have to embrace my cultural studies textual analysis background. It may not be the preferred methodology for many on the Humanities and Creative Arts panel, and I may be overly conscious of its limitations. But for the time being, it’s the methodology I know best. The difficulty I seem to be having is bringing this background to bear on a context - the workplace - that is not particularly used to being analysed in this way. This seems to me why academics might show some discomfort with my new project. By bringing the theoretical tools of cultural studies to bear on the site of cultural studies’ own practice (which, despite the heroics of subversion and resistance, is essentially the office cubicle of everyone else in the information industry), it’s that much harder to assume the speaking position of the detached observer. This latter position cultural studies has been much more happy to adopt when it is ’simply’ reading texts more easily understood as the object of others’ ‘leisured’ ‘consumption’. « Melbourne [...] [...] Yes, if the ARC application process has taught me anything, it’s that I have to embrace my cultural studies textual analysis background. It may not be the preferred methodology for many on the Humanities and Creative Arts panel, and I may be overly conscious of its limitations. But for the time being, it’s the methodology I know best. The difficulty I seem to be having is bringing this background to bear on a context - the workplace - that is not particularly used to being analysed in this way. This seems to me why academics might show some discomfort with my new project. By bringing the theoretical tools of cultural studies to bear on the site of cultural studies’ own practice (which, despite the heroics of subversion and resistance, is essentially the office cubicle of everyone else in the information industry), it’s that much harder to assume the speaking position of the detached observer. This latter position cultural studies has been much more happy to adopt when it is ’simply’ reading texts more easily understood as the object of others’ ‘leisured’ ‘consumption’. « Melbourne [...]

]]> By: melgregg http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2006/06/15/getting-organised/#comment-46905 melgregg Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:47:04 +0000 http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2006/06/15/getting-organised/#comment-46905 Thanks - sounds great. Is she actually at U Chicago? (Like I need <a href="http://studioincite.com/blog/?p=227" rel="nofollow"><i>another</i> reason to want to work there</a>!!!) Thanks - sounds great. Is she actually at U Chicago? (Like I need another reason to want to work there!!!)

]]> By: Jeremy hunsinger http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2006/06/15/getting-organised/#comment-46874 Jeremy hunsinger Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:20:17 +0000 http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2006/06/15/getting-organised/#comment-46874 this sounds very much like what biella coleman was writing her syllabi about in the fall. you might want to check her out if you haven't already. this sounds very much like what biella coleman was writing her syllabi about in the fall. you might want to check her out if you haven’t already.

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