home cooked theory

Cultural Studies: Generations

So aside from all the important things like wishing my Dad Happy Birthday and getting my haircut today I’m currently arranging hotels and train transfers while working on the lecture I’m giving at the University of Tampere next week. It’s on generationalism and cultural studies, and I’ll base it on arguments I make in my [...]

NB

Given its lingering final questions – “where can I find you all? And where will I ever find the energy to keep fighting?” – I’m pleased to say that since my last post I have been a little overwhelmed by beautiful people revealing themselves, and this has been giving me plenty of momentum to keep [...]

The frustration of foreboding

The class that can express its desires, rather than represent them, is the class that escapes the violence of the law. That which cannot be named, cannot be identified, cannot be charged, cannot be convicted.
Reading Ken Wark’s Hacker Manifesto this week (an online version is here), I’ve been reminded of some of the arguments [...]