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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: [...]

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 [...]

Conditions on the ground (post-Post Transit)

Guy has written an important comment that I don’t want to get lost, as it adds depth and context to the partial picture I gave of the UEL conference. His final remarks are crucial: and give some concrete form to the complaints about neoliberalism that echoed around the event. I always wonder why there aren’t [...]

Geert Lovink interviews Andrew Ross

“I’d like to see new media tacticians think more about sustainable income models for everyone rather than focus primarily on the livelihoods of creatives or high-skill knowledge workers.” Read more here.

Holidays and domestic bliss

Last week I had a mini-holiday before the conference season kicks off. Proof: It involved staying at a yuppie enclave (a “resort” of beach “shacks” – contradiction much?) but then sneaking through the caravan park to play on the swings and live out my childish fantasies of unrealised beachside holidays. I never got to experience [...]

Pride Politics in the Pub tonight

Are Queers butch enough for the union? …from Blundstones and blue singlets, to Mr. Humphries and Smithers… …Join some of Brisbane’s leading wits for a debate about Queers in the union movement – breaking down stereotypes and discussing union ideals… Party afterwards with Dj V and then kick on upstairs at Sporties Thurs, 21 June [...]

Sign of the times

Caught on campus: Not the most uplifting sight on my lonely walk back to the carpark this evening! I have to teach next week, too – sigh.

It’s the postmodernism, stupid

Wow. If you wanted to take an opportunity to collapse every workplace grievance you felt in one very public statement, this feature in The Australian‘s Higher Education lift-out today would seem to be a pin-up example. Let’s see: Cultural relativism = postmodernism / poststructuralism = cultural studies = Alan McKee & John Hartley = radical [...]

Stereotypes

To become dÃ©cor, to become ambiance, to become setting, to become stereotype, is not necessarily to be out of the picture. On the contrary: a living stereotype can always historicize, as well as appear in, the media image of any event. It stubbornly refers to the social conditions of its own appearance in space, and [...]

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