home cooked theory

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 [...]

Wireless workshop

Now everything’s in place, I can finally let you in on a little pet project I’ve been working on…
Wireless Cultures & Technologies Workshop
Convened by Dr Gerard Goggin (USyd) and Dr Melissa Gregg (UQ)
Sponsored by the ARC Cultural Research Network Cultural Technologies Node
The University of Sydney, Friday 1 December, 1.30-5.00pm
Wireless technologies and cultures could be said [...]

Kracauer, cultural studies and the Left

Some of you have noticed that I recently had Joe Moran’s Reading the Everyday in my currently consuming. Can’t remember if I mentioned that I set his chapter on ‘Workspace: Office life and commuting’ for my students in New Media. It’s a lovely reading of The Office, for one thing, but it’s also a nice [...]

More notes on cool

It’s taken me a long time to get my notes together from Alan Liu’s The Laws of Cool, but I want to share some of them here given how much use I’ve made of them in the conference papers and grant applications currently occupying my time. I didn’t realise how fitting Geert’s description was going [...]

B(u)y me

If only every day at work could be this fun! I arrived at the office this morning to find 6 copies of my Now Published Book waiting in my pigeon hole, and spent the rest of the day rushing about between teaching watching my inbox fill up with lovely messages. My face hurts from smiling. [...]

Planning and padding

After a quick trip home to Hobart last week, I’ve spent today trying to take stock of the many, many projects I seem to have on the boil. It looks as though I’ll be talking at this conference a couple of days before AoIR kicks off, so September is going to be a busy month. [...]

Zylinska and Hall lecture

Joanna Zylinska and Gary Hall - part of the Culture Machine collective, an interesting group of cultural studies people based in the UK - are doing a couple of appearances while they’re in Australia. I just finished reviewing Zylinska’s Ethics of Cultural Studies for IJCS. She’s doing interesting things at the difficult nexus between philosophy [...]

Sample chapter

Goodness. You can now read the first chapter of my book here. You can also appreciate the glory that is my index in PDF form. I have been bursting to share that my favourite entry was most definitely ‘American Dream - baby boomers’ relationship to’. Writing books is fun. Well, there are some fun bits.

Work in progress seminar

The details for my ‘Working From Home’ seminar on Friday week are now available here, complete with a suitable illustration…

Book progress

Woo. Just found out from the commissioning editor my book is going to be published before the end of September - in the UK anyway, but still… This means it will exist in time for the launch, which has recently been confirmed as part of the schedule for the CSAA conference this December. The panel [...]

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