home cooked theory

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 [...]

The kids are all right

Only five weeks to go…

Ryan candidate forum, UQ Thursday

As part of the lead up to the election the NTEU UQ branch has organized a candidates forum at St Lucia campus for the seat of Ryan featuring Ross Daniels, ALP, Jim Page, Democrats, Evan Jones, Greens, Charles Worringham, Independent, and Michael Johnson, Liberal (to be confirmed). Qld Senate candidates have also been invited.
When: 12pm [...]

You Decide

It’s the Brisbane Writers Festival and the Valley Fiesta this weekend – just as the weather looks like warming up for good this time. I actually can’t find much I’d like to go to at either, but I’ll be heading to the Crikey session this afternoon to support discussion of alternative publishing. I noticed last [...]

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