home cooked theory

Post Transit

Bloc Party are right: East London is a vampire, it sucks the joy right out of me. Chris Rojek is also right: there is something very wrong with English cultural studies when one figure – Stuart Hall – casts such a shadow over the efforts of scholars past and present to move the field forward, [...]

Pig City symposium is tomorrow

There have been over 200 RSVPs, so if you haven’t let us know you’re coming yet, please do… we want everyone to have a seat. The email is in the flyer below.
For those of you who have asked about whether the event is being recorded, Radio National will be doing some audio and additional interviews [...]

Geert Lovink interviews Andrew Ross

“I’d like to see new media tacticians think more about sustainable income models for everyone rather than focus primarily on the livelihoods of creatives or high-skill knowledge workers.”
Read more here.

Mobile Media 2007

I promised to blog about last week’s conference, but in doing so I won’t be quite as comprehensive as Axel, so you should go there if you want specifics on lots of the papers. There are a couple more reports here too; plus hopefully Larissa will share her flickr account details with me soon, given [...]

London calling, #2

Update: Judith Halberstam’s title has changed, see below….
In just over a week, I’m heading over to the UK again for the Cultural Studies Now conference at the University of East London. Before the event, Angela McRobbie has kindly offered to host a seminar for those of us coming such a long way where we can [...]