home cooked 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 [...]

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 captured [...]

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 [...]

Cultural capital

Actually, I won’t be going home to an empty house much longer. I am getting a new flatmate for Easter! The signs are promising:

NB

Given its lingering final questions – “where can I find you all? And where will I ever find the energy to keep fighting?” – I’m pleased to say that since my last post I have been a little overwhelmed by beautiful people revealing themselves, and this has been giving me plenty of momentum to keep [...]

5 things you don’t know about me

(Well, a couple you may know, especially if you’re Jean)
1. (i) I quite often think about, and am ashamed by, how politically incorrect my childhood games were. Particularly the game my brother and I invented – “Ethiopes” – which we played in the sandy area of the farmhouse near the dog kennels. It consisted of [...]

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