home cooked theory

Quotes of the week

Hmm, I’d like to start a new Friday series for all of you who spend the week reading, largely on your own, for whatever work you’re doing. Wouldn’t it be nice to share with others the most interesting idea you encountered? Would it help mark the end of a long week to remember what you [...]

Normal homes

The latest issue of M/C Journal has just gone live. As you’d probably guess given the name of this blog, I was already compelled to offer something on the theme of “home” before I was asked to; the essay I ended up writing however reacts to some recent events that seemed more urgent. I’m extremely [...]

Conditions on the ground (post-Post Transit)

Guy has written an important comment that I don’t want to get lost, as it adds depth and context to the partial picture I gave of the UEL conference. His final remarks are crucial: and give some concrete form to the complaints about neoliberalism that echoed around the event. I always wonder why there aren’t [...]

Details for MACS on Friday

Monthly MACS is a cross-institutional network of academics, early career researchers, postgraduate students, postdocs, RAs and sessional staff working in Media and Cultural Studies across Brisbane. We meet regularly during semester to discuss issues which relate to these roles, debate wider trends in the field and have a few drinks afterwards. You can read more [...]

FNQ and the promise of Facebook

Townsville is nothing like Hobart where I grew up–the climate, the landscape, the wildlife, the architecture and the serious military presence are just some of the things that set it apart. Still, visiting there on the weekend brought to mind lots of feelings and questions about home, ones that I usually don’t entertain for very [...]

Sharing

Since I started having something approximating a social life on top of a heavy workload some of my usual blogging impulses have been somewhat sidelined. I want to improve on that if I can, but for the moment Monday now seems to be the best bloggy day for Mel. It feels a bit like a [...]