home cooked theory

The case for a queer Bella

Spoiler alert: If you intend to see the current Twilight movie, maybe don’t read this til later. After writing the love post this week I went to see Twilight: Eclipse – part of a bonding session with K, who is writing his thesis on feminism and film. The last offering in the series was fairly [...]

Telephutures

Thanks to Andrew Davies and Antony Funnell for inviting me to be on Future Tense today. You can hear the program, “Ditching the Landline”, on the ABC website. It was a nice coincidence to arrive at work to a copy of Genevieve Bell’s final report for the Adelaide Thinkers in Residence Program, Getting Connected, Staying [...]

Guess work

‘Lovers are like detectives: they are trying to find something out that will make all the difference.’ — Adam Phillips, On Love Probably the least useful thing to do after getting married is to have to go back to work and put together a course reader for “Intimacy, Love & Friendship”. I haven’t changed the [...]