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 [...]

Over networked

Last week I was in Melbourne briefly for the Cultural Research Network annual meeting. The CRN is funded by the Australian Research Council and allows a select group of researchers across the country to be brought together for 5 years to capitalise on and extend existing research collaborations, as well as generate new ones. It’s [...]

On things maturing… maybe

You may have noticed that my response to the blogging conference was to avoid my blog for a while! This has as much to do with pressing projects than my experience on the day. Greg and I have been busy sending feedback to our contributors for The Affect Reader, and I had a birthday to [...]

FNQ and the promise of Facebook

Townsville is nothing like Hobart where I grew up–the climate, the landscape, the wildlife, the architecture and the serious military presence are just some of the things that set it apart. Still, visiting there on the weekend brought to mind lots of feelings and questions about home, ones that I usually don’t entertain for very [...]

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