Border as method

Notes from the “Precarious Employment, Differential Inclusion and the Proliferation of Borders” seminar featuring Brett Neilson, Sandro Mezzadra and Rutvica Andrijasevic at University of Western Sydney, November 13, 2008. People seem to like notes, and blogging them helps me remember some of the ideas I’ve been hearing lately. Below is a bunch of thoughts I [...]

Good trip

I haven’t yet had a chance to say thanks to Adrian and my other generous hosts at Monash last week… even though the Qantas debacle meant I was a little bit late and spent most of the day in transit everyone made me feel very welcome and not too much of a screen studies amateur. [...]

The social networking strategy that wasn’t

When photos of the Prime Minister’s ‘butler’ appeared in various Sunday papers this past weekend it was the latest example of an emerging genre of so-called news stories based on allegedly revealing photos available on Facebook (Australian readers may well remember the media frenzy around swimming star, Stephanie Rice). Rudd’s apparent reaction to the front [...]

Changes

It seems important to write something about Tasmania.* I found out early in the day that Paul Lennon had resigned as Premier and just watched the telly footage from the various press conferences. Wow though: the amount of time being devoted to the story says something about the status of my home state in relation [...]

Over to you

Thanks to everyone who responded to my call-out for help! I am now very happily assisted and looking forward to the year of work ahead. Except that I’m unlikely to be blogging with any regularity for the time being. On top of the Working From Home project and the online cultural studies book, plans are [...]

Cultural studies then

Looking through my trash folder I just found an email that links to video of the keynotes from last year’s Cultural Studies Now conference at the University of East London. Among others, you’ll find Kuan-Hsing Chen, Dick Hebdige, Ien Ang, Doreen Massey, Judith Halberstam, Rosi Braidotti, and of course, that significant moment featuring Stuart Hall. [...]

Manifesto caution

On Saturday night some friends and I went to see Ang Lee’s latest film, Lust Caution. At the time, it felt long, exhausting and tragic — especially given I was already tired from the night before and dissecting the week that spawned not one but two quasi-manifestos from lady bloggers. Was there something in the [...]

Dreams and reality

It is a little like waking up from a dream this week. It’s Thursday already, but I still feel like it might not be safe to open my eyes. (Oh no! I just did! And look what happened…) The fact that I literally partied all night on Saturday may have something to do with my [...]

Domestic journalism

Yesterday I made my first film for the You Decide 2007 website. It was very time consuming, so I might not make too many more, but it was a good way to appreciate how much work is involved in trying to do something even this tiny. I’m not computer illiterate, but I don’t veer too [...]

Weird

A bit spooked today! After a very odd morning of accidents and inconveniences, I was working on a document for Crazy John’s mobile phone company this afternoon only to hear that Crazy John himself died suddenly of an assumed heart-attack this morning. So tragic: he was taking a morning walk, he’d given up the fags [...]

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