home cooked theory

Remembering Eve

In honour of our Sedgwick event today, here’s a link to an old essay I wrote a few years ago when I was asked to review Touching Feeling. It’s called “How to Avoid Being Paranoid” and it’s this general directive and its ongoing relevance for those working in the corporate academy that will form the [...]

RIP

After the Magic Dirt show at the Doghouse in Hobart some time in ‘95 or ‘96 my friends and I stole tour posters from the power poles all the way home. Dean played Fairy Park and I asked Miles to teach me bass guitar. Puppyfat must have covered every track of Life Was Better that [...]

Attunements

A friend hurts her back in the middle of a work event she’s been planning for months. Rather than miss the Saturday workshop she Skypes in from bed.
Someone can’t RSVP for an event later in the year because she might need to have an operation. Someone who was going to come can’t anymore: the chemo [...]

Privacy and work

Today’s class was about intimacy and privacy, and it drew on the work of Michael Warner and Michel Foucault to talk about publics, discourse, power and confession. We read Emily Nussbaum’s article, “Kids, the Internet and the end of Privacy” which argues that the generation gap between those who up with the internet and those [...]