Planning and padding

After a quick trip home to Hobart last week, I’ve spent today trying to take stock of the many, many projects I seem to have on the boil. It looks as though I’ll be talking at this conference a couple of days before AoIR kicks off, so September is going to be a busy month. [...]

Zylinska and Hall lecture

Joanna Zylinska and Gary Hall – part of the Culture Machine collective, an interesting group of cultural studies people based in the UK – are doing a couple of appearances while they’re in Australia. I just finished reviewing Zylinska’s Ethics of Cultural Studies for IJCS. She’s doing interesting things at the difficult nexus between philosophy [...]

Ladyfest vs. SOOB

This Ladyfest benefit joins forces with Straight Out Of Brisbane on the gloriously parochial Ekka holiday in QLD. With BIFF just winding up – immediately following the Brisbane Festival – it’s a great time to be living in this city (and a bad time to be writing job applications to leave it).

Conspiracy! News for affect theory nerds

Has anyone else been following this bizarre story about the former judge, Teresa Brennan and the borrowed silver Lexus? Strange and intriguing. I read her affect book a while ago, and was devastated to find out in the preface that she had been killed in a car accident just as she finished it. I was [...]

New homes for other theory cookers

Kat Jungnickel has started a new blog for her PhD project on wireless use. It’s looking great already. Also, it looks like Clif is back at Blown Glass. Keep it up people!

Sample chapter

Goodness. You can now read the first chapter of my book here. You can also appreciate the glory that is my index in PDF form. I have been bursting to share that my favourite entry was most definitely ‘American Dream – baby boomers’ relationship to’. Writing books is fun. Well, there are some fun bits.

CFP: Melancholic States

MELANCHOLIC STATES Institute for Women’s Studies, Lancaster University 27-29 September 2007 The concept of melancholia has assumed widespread and varied currency across numerous fields. Sometimes used to refer to a state of mind or to an affective state; sometimes used to speak of racialised, gendered, or queer subjectivity; other times used as a tool of [...]

Work in progress seminar

The details for my ‘Working From Home’ seminar on Friday week are now available here, complete with a suitable illustration…

Book progress

Woo. Just found out from the commissioning editor my book is going to be published before the end of September – in the UK anyway, but still… This means it will exist in time for the launch, which has recently been confirmed as part of the schedule for the CSAA conference this December. The panel [...]

Mobile Sex Ed

Get your attention with that header? Next week I’m going to Sydney for a planning workshop about transmitting safer sex messages through mobile and online media: The objectives of this workshop are to brainstorm ideas, plans and a project focused on how to better communicate to young people the necessity of safer sex in the [...]

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