home cooked theory

A special moment

Thanks to everyone who came out to welcome Lauren Berlant on her visit to Sydney last weekend. It was an incredible paper, and we are all in the department basking in the afterglow of a fantastically inspiring visit. I also wanted to say sorry to those who couldn’t make it in to Saturday’s lecture – [...]

Late night internet

Cross-post from Willunga Connects Willunga library is one of the main public places that locals can access internet facilities. It provides computers and wireless for registered users. Perhaps it was fate, but when I visited the library yesterday afternoon the internet had crashed and no one could use the computers. This was very disappointing for [...]

On the beat

Cross-post from Willunga Connects Some snaps of the NBN roll-out happening in the streets of Willunga… So far I’ve heard a number of stories about digging, drilling, and the logistics of laying cable. And tales of a few sewerage pipes coming off the worse for wear. If you have a story to share about the [...]

Co-ops

Cross-post from Willunga Connects. After visiting the Waldorf School and hearing a bit more about the Tour Down Under, the past couple of days I’ve been learning about some of Willunga’s co-operatives. Yesterday I called in to Off the Slate Gallery and had a lovely chat with Rae Nation, one of the artists who runs [...]

White collar intimacy

I have a new book chapter available in draft form. It’s a revised version of the talk I gave in Manchester last June at the Affective Fabrics of Digital Cultures conference. The book coming out of the conference is called Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion, with Palgrave as the publisher. Editors Adi Kuntsman [...]