Mad Men revised

My updated paper on Mad Men (following peer review) is now available here. What a great experience this time – some really helpful reports. But I am keen to hear any more feedback before submitting the final version. I’m still not quite happy with the conclusion and wonder if it is to do with the [...]

Holiday consumption

This fascinating post at Supervalent Thought is timely motivation for new year writing projects. Makes me wonder if I should rethink my avoidance of MLA. I’ve never been, having lost touch with literary studies after my Honours year. I still think in terms of textuality though… indeed the more I go through peer review processes [...]

Lost in The Suburbs

So the paper I am currently writing is about Mad Men, commuter narratives, the suburbs and this website (for some reason I seem to be on a run of articles analysing viral marketing campaigns. Not sure why that’s the case…) The paper is called “The Return of Organization Man” and I’m just trying to figure [...]

Understanding Underbelly

CFP: Underbelly book

With the end of the year upon us there is one more project in the works that I haven’t shared here yet. The Underbelly collection I’ve been planning with Sue Turnbull & Jason Wilson has an official call for papers out. We are accepting abstracts until the end of December. Read on for more. This [...]

The case for a queer Bella

Spoiler alert: If you intend to see the current Twilight movie, maybe don’t read this til later. After writing the love post this week I went to see Twilight: Eclipse – part of a bonding session with K, who is writing his thesis on feminism and film. The last offering in the series was fairly [...]

Getting Desperate: Twitter on primetime

Last night’s episode of Desperate Housewives showed how far things have come: it included a scene that hinged on Tom’s lack of knowledge about Twitter, and hence his failure at a job interview. This shameful experience led to an extended subplot about whether or not Tom should get plastic surgery to disguise his age and [...]

Affective voice

e-waste

Nadia says: “Just found this room at my work with a sign saying ‘Not Working’. Could only capture one corner.”

e-waste

Kristian says: “What struck me was the still existing use value of the objects. Surely if they were Very Useful two years ago they are still Very Useful today (an old car is still useful, an old wheelbarrow is useful etc etc), but these electronic things have lost some critical value that eludes me (beyond [...]

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