Good trip
I haven’t yet had a chance to say thanks to Adrian and my other generous hosts at Monash last week… even though the Qantas debacle meant I was a little bit late and spent most of the day in transit everyone made me feel very welcome and not too much of a screen studies amateur. [...]
Checking in and checking out
In another instance of outsourcing labour and discharging accountability, Qantas now encourages customers to check in online the night before a flight to prevent the likelihood that your seat will be given to someone else. The company’s policy to routinely oversell flights is now taken to be our responsibility; merely showing up on time for [...]
Work on TV
This time next week I’ll be in Melbourne speaking at Monash University’s Film and Television series, Under Construction. Loyal Home Cooked Theory reader and brilliant film scholar Adrian Martin has generously invited me to share some of the thinking behind one of my current projects, “Work on TV.”
This will be an early version of [...]
Cultural studies after Melbourne
Last week on top of the excitement of meeting Lauren Berlant and Ian Horswill and the despair of seeing the Swans lose at ANZ stadium I had some interesting discussions about teaching and cultural studies with some of Melbourne University’s finest employees. It was exciting to hear that some of the material I’ve discussed here [...]
Anticipatory affects in the workplace
There’s a separate symposium I’m speaking at in Melbourne called “Affect and the Human/ Machine Interface” which is being organised by Fiona Brideoake and the Minds, Bodies, Machines ARC Linkage Project. The event features Ian Horswill as plenary speaker on Tuesday afternoon, as well as a bunch of other very interesting looking sessions. I’m presenting [...]
Of Sacred Crossroads
Since the Crossroads conference wound up on Monday I’ve been heeding my stars and hibernating for a few days. Kingston was amazing but gruelling with very long, fully scheduled days–which included, on top of a constant coterie of attendees milling around the poolside hotel bar each night: a major reception at the Prime Minister’s residence, [...]
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 [...]
On not being a public intellectual
What might appear as an in-joke on the previous post is alluding to one of the sessions at the Sustaining Cultural Research day last week in Adelaide. Unfortunately due to a series of conspiring factors there was quite a bit of repetition in the advice and the preoccupations of the speakers on the day, with [...]
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!
Sustaining Cultural Research
Below and here is the program for Wednesday’s professional development day – the pre-conference being held the day before CSAA. I am on last! So my thoughts on ‘the way forward’ for public intellectualism will probably be ‘in the direction of the pub’. I am still gathering my notes together and feel quite conscious that [...]
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