In press

Some publishing developments this week: – The Affect Reader manuscript is finally finished and off to the publisher (isn’t it Greg?!). Until we actually get a contract, it’s probably best to keep the contents under wraps, but for the moment I’m just so pleased and proud to have made it this far. Working as co-editor [...]

Writing vs. blogging vs. life

I have been in Tasmania for the past week hanging out with friends and family and drinking lots of local Pinot! At the moment I’m on Bruny Island where I grew up, and this morning I drove over a mountain to go to yoga in a place called Adventure Bay. I could hear the waves [...]

Hot off the press

The special issue of Media International Australia I edited with Gerard Goggin arrived this week. Admire the beautifully Australian backyard aesthetic captured here by Kat! We are so happy to have her work on the cover because we think it symbolises our aims for the issue: to begin a rigorous local discussion about wireless infrastructure [...]

Normal homes

The latest issue of M/C Journal has just gone live. As you’d probably guess given the name of this blog, I was already compelled to offer something on the theme of “home” before I was asked to; the essay I ended up writing however reacts to some recent events that seemed more urgent. I’m extremely [...]

Sharing

Since I started having something approximating a social life on top of a heavy workload some of my usual blogging impulses have been somewhat sidelined. I want to improve on that if I can, but for the moment Monday now seems to be the best bloggy day for Mel. It feels a bit like a [...]

Counter-Heroics & Counter-Professionalism in Cultural Studies

To my utter delight, this issue of Continuum, the culmination of a collaboration between Jean, Kris, Jane and I, finally arrived in my pigeon hole today. It feels good to be able to hold an object I helped produce, especially this week, as I finish a really positive teaching semester only to face the nightmare [...]

Getting close

The page proofs for Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices arrive tonight, so it’s lucky I’ve been getting the index underway during the little pockets of time in between teaching duties. I also just received some reassuring feedback on one of the new chapters that I leaked to a trusted colleague, so I’m starting to feel a [...]

Email from publisher

[Ms Commissioning Editor] has now had a chance to look at your manuscript. Since your acknowledgements suggest that quite a few people have seen (parts of) it during your writing she will not send it out for a clearance reading in which case we can now prepare it for hand over to our production department. [...]

Uses of Blogs

Congratulations to Axel and Joanne Jacobs who have just submitted the manuscript for the Uses of Blogs collection. We Brisbanites are hoping it will be ready for launching at the AoIR conference next year! Come on, Peter Lang, the timing is too good to miss!

Fast Capitalism

Is it just my imagination that a new journal seems to be announced almost every day now? How is it possible that they are all read? This one might be worth keeping an eye on: Fast Capitalism is an academic journal with a political intent. We publish reviewed scholarship and essays about the impact of [...]

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