http://homecookedtheory.com Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:51:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Pownce to melgregg Dec 2 We are sad to announce that Pownce is shutting down on December 15, 2008. As of today, Pownce will no longer be accepting new users or new pro accounts. To help with your transition, we have built an export tool so you can save your content. ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2008/12/04/blowing-bubbles/ Notes from the "Precarious Employment, Differential Inclusion and the Proliferation of Borders" seminar featuring Brett Neilson, Sandro Mezzadra and Rutvica Andrijasevic at University of Western Sydney, November 13, 2008. People seem to like notes, and blogging them helps me remember some of the ideas I've been hearing lately. Below is a ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2008/12/02/border-as-method/ These are my notes from Meaghan Morris's talk earlier this month. They are very impressionistic, so please don't take them to be accurate, i.e. quotable. If you were there please do amend and develop if you can and continue the conversation. I've left out a whole set of contextual references ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2008/11/27/grizzling-about-facebook-notes/ This is a slightly edited version of the Underbelly paper I gave in Melbourne last week. Comments are especially welcome before we submit it for publication. Ordinary Australians? Aspiration, commodity fetishism and masculinity in Underbelly by Melissa Gregg and Jason Wilson Introduction During the April 23rd screening of the Nine network drama Underbelly, ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2008/11/26/ordinary-australians-reading-underbelly/ [caption id="attachment_742" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="Erskineville Road, Sydney, November 7"][/caption] In a couple of weeks the Television and the National conference is on at ACMI in Melbourne. I'm giving two papers. The first is the Work on TV paper I've mentioned here previously, and which I'll post about separately as I ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2008/11/07/learning-from-underbelly/ Setting up my new office, I'm reminded that my first task at Sydney is to introduce and chair this seminar on Friday. All are welcome. Professor Meaghan Morris 'Grizzling About Facebook' Friday, 7th Nov, 2pm The Refectory, Main Quadrangle, University of Sydney Followed by drinks at Manning Bar Abstract: In journalistic usage, “new media” talk often suggests ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2008/11/03/grizzling-about-facebook/ It's my last day at UQ, which makes a fresh theme seem fitting. The banner design this time is by Sarah Xu, who has been taking the lead for the past few months on the Working From Home project. I think she gets the Home Cooked Theory vibe just ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2008/10/10/farewell-to-pig-city/ Sticking to a theme, the next Monthly MACS meeting at UQ -- which will also be my last -- is going to discuss the consequences of moving for work. Back in my first year at the CCCS, I thought a group like MACS might be a way to form ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2008/10/02/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go/ 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 ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2008/10/01/good-trip/ 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 ... http://homecookedtheory.com/archives/2008/09/25/671/