I have been in contact wih the editor of ‘Bifurcaciones’; a Chilean cultural/urban studies journal: http://www.revistabifurcaciones.cl/ He was interested in something I posted to the film-philosophy list about Marc Auge’s concept of the non-place and wants me to write something for the journal. As James Weiner has noted, within anthropology (proper, none of this ‘cultural […]
Monthly Archives: December 2004
That sound from family feud….
What I think would be good fun would be to trace the genealogy of the ‘incorrect answer’ sound from the television game show “Family Feud”… hmmm, I am not sure if I can represent it properly on my blog, but it kind of goes ‘boh-bong’ where the bong is a lower note than the boh.* […]
All you need is love
Love is in the air at the moment. I attended a wedding yesterday of one of my good mates to his now wife he met while doing postgrad med in Sydney. It was a wonderful day and I was righteously drunk by the end of it. Now I am recovering, I feel a little sick, […]
I love papers that demand a 20 minute spell check…
Approximately 16, 770 words and 48 pages later the Getaway in Stockholm interview with Mr A is finally transcribed. Link to their website. Mr A was an awesome interview participant. Very useful for my thesis, maybe not in terms of actual content, but certainly for ideas on questions for others. The interview may be useful for […]
The radical potential of ‘dead wood’?
A number of the issues raised in various papers that I heard at the 2004 CSAA conference hit home in a very real way; that is, at my familial home. I am writing this the night I am back in Sydney. I am exhausted, but not tired, and have this I want to write before […]