home cooked theory

Nominees for ACS Board & Chair

This is a repost for any locals not subscribed to the CSAA-forum, and for anyone with an interest in cultural studies… In coming months, the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS – the organisation that runs Crossroads) will be calling for nominations for a board election that will take place prior to the general assembly in [...]

Lost in The Suburbs

So the paper I am currently writing is about Mad Men, commuter narratives, the suburbs and this website (for some reason I seem to be on a run of articles analysing viral marketing campaigns. Not sure why that’s the case…) The paper is called “The Return of Organization Man” and I’m just trying to figure [...]

‘The horrors’

When I finished writing my book manuscript in early 2010, I included an epigraph from the late George Orwell: Even the middle classes, for the first time in their history, are feeling the pinch. They have not known actual hunger yet, but more and more of them find themselves floundering in a sort of deadly [...]

Notes from Geert Lovink’s Sydney talk

Last week’s lecture by Geert Lovink at UTS covered a lot of territory that I didn’t record, including an overview of the research initiatives taking place at the Institute of Network Cultures. This is nothing like a summary, then; I just wanted to note some of the projects and websites he mentioned in the spirit [...]