home cooked theory

Vale 80s ideologue rock

Video Hits is giving me what I want this morning: a countdown to tonight’s ARIAs. The ARIAs are probably my favourite award ceremony. You get a bit more spirit than the film or TV ones, where the script, if it’s Australian, is usually about demonstrating the need for more money (the refrain that doesn’t seem [...]

Cultural Studies Now

An International Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Docklands Campus, University of East London, UK, 19-22 July 2007
Plenary speakers will include Ien Ang, Rosi Braidotti, Kuan-Hsing Chen; Judith Halberstam, Stuart Hall, Dick Hebdige, Doreen Massey.
Cultural Studies, as the paradigmatic interdisciplinary project, has always been defined by its relationships to proximate sets of ideas, practices and institutions. As [...]

Imaginary solutions

By far my favourite quote from Resistance Through Rituals:
“Every mod was existing in a ghost world of gangsterism, luxurious clubs, and beautiful women even if reality only amounted to a draughty Parker anorak, a beaten up Vespa, and fish and chips out of a greasy bag.” (p 90)
- Dick Hebdige, ‘The Meaning of Mod’

It’s about working smarter

If only it was. This latest campaign from Optus, ‘for small business customers only’, typifies the distinct lack of interest amongst Australian mobile technology marketers in changing the culture of ICT-dependent workplaces. We should be in no doubt which particular group is ‘mobile’ in this vision of the mobile society. And whether it’s the recent [...]

Warning: Adult Themes

Sydney people:
You’re invited to an ‘In Conversation’ event with Kate Crawford, author of Adult Themes, and Jenny Brockie of Insight on SBS. Come along to join a discussion about how the norms of adulthood are changing, and why generational stereotypes are missing the bigger story of political and economic change.
Where: Gleebooks upstairs
When: Wednesday Oct [...]

Sex in libraries

Call for Papers—International Conference
Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality in the Archive
April 26-28, 2007
Sponsored by Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Alice Domurat Dreger, Catherine Waldby, Elizabeth Kerekere, Rosemarie Garland-Thompson, Susan Stryker; others to be announced
The turn to new theories and practices of the archive in critical theory, cultural studies, [...]

Cultural Studies in Asia Symposium

Featuring Professors Ien Ang, Chua Beng Huat, Meaghan Morris, and Krishna Sen
Sponsored by the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies and the ARC Cultural Research Network
Thursday 23 November 2006, 2-5pm
Seminar Room 1, E356
3rd Floor Forgan Smith Building, East Wing, St Lucia Campus, University of Queensland
This symposium will explore the current state of [...]

Dear Australian Research Council

Thank you very much for giving me another three years of getting paid.
DP0770241: “Working from home: New media technology, workplace culture and the changing nature of domesticity” has been funded. You can see the full list of grants here.
Thanks to all of you who have wished me well and tried to keep me sane [...]

Saturn returns

Last week I turned 28. As some of you following the progress of post-AoIR-related flickring have noticed, I died my hair blonde to celebrate! I’ve also since received numerous warnings that the next two years are pretty much going to suck. Is it wrong that I had no idea about this? I guess a [...]

MACS tomorrow: Working with industry

Tomorrow is Kat’s talk on ‘Working with industry (during your PhD)’. If you haven’t been following her work here or here, Kat Jungnickel is a PhD student at INCITE, an Incubator for Critical Inquiry into Technology and Ethnography based in the Sociology Department at the University of Surrey. She is currently undertaking a multi-sited ethnography [...]

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