Manchester

Did anyone see that film with Sandra Bullock, The Proposal? I’m in Manchester now and being here is like the place she went to meet her PA’s folks. It is light all the time. It was light when I went to bed, it’s bright blue sky at 4.30am. The joys of cross-hemisphere travel! Anyway, this [...]

White collar intimacy

This is my abstract for the Affective fabrics of digital cultures conference next week. It is a bit of a synopsis of my book… although only a bit. This paper provides an historical overview of writing on white collar work in order to assess the novelty of social networking practices emerging in online and digital [...]

How do you buy a wedding ring?

The next bit of wedding planning is to buy the rings, since we both agree we’d like to have one. It was different with the engagement. I proposed to William so I didn’t expect a ring. I am also not much of a jewelry person. But wow, try explaining that to someone sometime, that you [...]

International Women’s Day

This afternoon the Women and Work Research Group at the University of Sydney held a special event for International Women’s Day. I was asked to present some of my research from the Working From Home study. Here is a copy of the text from my talk, and a powerpoint presentation for those interested in some [...]

Final stretch

It’s getting close… here is the official poster for next month’s State of the Industry conference (also available as a .pdf here). Thanks go to Clif for the design and imagery. We loved the idea of the fading glamour of the fun park and also the rollercoaster symbolising the highs and lows of the academic [...]

Mid-semester break

I have a little break from teaching now and will be a) catching up on a few ongoing projects b) having a birthday holiday! Some of you would have heard the interview I did on Radio National yesterday about Facebook in the workplace, which drew on the material mentioned here a few weeks ago. Thanks [...]

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 [...]

Remembering Eve Sedgwick

This is something I’ve been working on for the past few weeks. Hope some of you might like to come! We are also looking in to the logistics of recording it – so it would be good to hear if people would find this useful. Remembering Eve Sedgwick: The beginnings, present and future of queer [...]

Affective voice

Published!

The opinion piece referred to previously is in the Higher Ed section of The Australian today. The print version has a very cute cartoon alongside with a sandstone tower and a book as the draw bridge. The young girl struggling to cross the moat bears an uncanny resemblance to my grad school self. I’m gonna [...]

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