home cooked theory

Over it

Today I removed all my aca writing from the blog in case of copyright sagas, so if there’s something you wanna read in future feel free to email and ask – I usually have a running list of publications and projects in the links from my work website. My general policy in life is it’s [...]

They are pretty heavy

Some readers might find this funny; I obviously did!

On Katrina

“…however ‘natural’ the disaster, the differential experience of the victims is entirely man-made…”

‘I wanted to make her feel special like it was a limousine’

Driving home the other night I was bowled over listening to some of the stories taken from the Storycorps project. It’s an oral history initiative taking place in little booths across the US where people can interview loved ones about everyday events and memories. The aim is to create an archive of contemporary American life [...]

Enough with the paranoia

Maybe we should just stop inventing things altogether in case terrorists use them? I’m not one for cybertopianism, but it seems we aren’t even allowed a moment of enthusiasm anymore. Things are bad when optimism, oh yeah and democracy, freedom of speech and freedom of movement seem hilarious ideals.

Snowy Snug

A month after my holiday the weather in Hobart has taken a decidedly wintery turn. While I’m in Brisbane in a T-shirt, this was my brother’s house yesterday. Brrr! But apparently road closures mean days off from work…

When inspiration finally strikes

Today was the first day in a long time that I can remember writing until it got dark. No lunch break, no leaving the house (well, except to hang out washing), no watching the clock (apart from that wonderfully incidental kind of way, as in ‘Wow, I’ve been sitting here a whole ‘nother hour and [...]

Territory or Fraternity?

Update your RSS feeds everyone, Glen has just signalled war to the frat house project. He is the second person to do this in a week. I fear this could get very messy…

Job vacancy @ empyre

-empyre- mailing list is one of the most respected media arts discussion lists in the world today, with an ongoing and changing array of guests drawn from diverse aspects of networked and new media theory and practice globally. We are currently seeking a new facilitator to work as part of a team, developing the lists [...]

Meme-ories light the corner of my mind

MGinSydney#1 Laura was right, I have been a busy blogger. While away I was tagged by the same meme twice, which makes me think someone’s trying to tell me something. Well, that I should be writing on my blog, I guess. What follows will be a hyrid version of both. On Saturday night at the [...]

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