home cooked theory

Future Fellowships – feedback

A discussion paper describing the Rudd Government’s planned Future Fellowships for mid-career researchers is now available on the ARC website (the pdf is here). I’d urge people to take a look at it at this stage, because there is some cause for concern about the proposed model, particularly for arts and humanities researchers.
The weighting [...]

Other kinds of internet history

To become insomniac, love-struck or bulimic is to enter into another everydayness – Henri Lefebvre
On Saturday June 14 I’m going to “Internet Histories 2: Australia and Asia-Pacific” at the State Library of Western Australia. It’s part of a two day workshop organised by Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland and the Cultural Research Network (the program and [...]

Changes

It seems important to write something about Tasmania.* I found out early in the day that Paul Lennon had resigned as Premier and just watched the telly footage from the various press conferences. Wow though: the amount of time being devoted to the story says something about the status of my home state in relation [...]