Sydney MACS

On Wednesday I am planning the launch of Sydney MACS – a cross-institutional network of media and cultural studies researchers. This is another branch of the network I first started in Brisbane back in 2004 (remember?!), and which my mates Ellie and Jinna have now extended to Melbourne. This blurb from the Facebook group explains [...]

Shhh

I should have known weekly postings would be a bit ambitious. Some of you are probably wondering if I even came back from the US trip this month! Heh. I did, but there were quite a few reasons I would have been happy to stay. For those who’ve been following the thesis writing course, my [...]

Between drinks

It’s been so long since I wrote here there’s not much chance of catching up. But having just hit the “finalise” button on a spreadsheet of 265 grades, maybe there is time for a bit of reflection. Plus, there is some news to share. This Wednesday will finally see the launch of The Affect Theory [...]

Dust day

Getting near fear

It’s June. My last month of being a postdoc. Things were supposed to be a lot more organised by now. At least it’s writing weather…

Crossroads 2010

I’ve just spent an amazing few days in Hong Kong with the ACS Chair, Ferda Keskin, meeting with the conference organisers for Crossroads 2010. Lingnan University will be the hosts and I have to admit being extremely excited after seeing the facilities, meeting with staff and hearing plans for the program. We’ll be able to [...]

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 [...]

Told you I needed an RA

According to AstroBarry – “Astrology for people who think”: LIBRA (September 23-October 22): Something’s got to give in your day-to-day routine, Libra, insofar as you’re balancing (or trying to balance) a brimming schedule of work duties, domestic chores and personal-care maintenance measures. If you’ve been managing it the same way for a while now, chances [...]

Under the pump: PR poetry

Think outside the square A picture paints a thousand words You’re not getting any love You have to be your own self-promoter The man out front Taking one for the team What flies and what dies Piggy-backing Gate-crashing Presser Snapper Have to keep putting yourself out there!

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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