The Sydney Autouni webpage is up. I have been attending meetings in preparation for an event on the 13 August: UNIVERSITY + WAR. Sandy and I have been talking about addressing the question of the “increasing precariousness of student life and academic/student creative labour.” (I posted an email to the CSAA email list after some […]
Monthly Archives: July 2005
Piracy, Immaterial Labour, the Franchise Event
Jon has written an interesting post on the relation between piracy and digital production. It has sent me off thinking about another one of my back-burner papers on configuring popular culture purely in terms of the Deleuzian event as a way to circumvent neo-Platonic conceptions of media production (representation, etc) and the cultural economy of […]
Circulation and Lazzarato’s Chainworkers
If you have spoken to me recently about Virno and Lazzarato’s respective conceptions of post-fordist labour then you would know that I have been relatively surprised by the lack of attention to questions of circulation in economies organised around post-fordist modes of production. EDIT: I realised I didn’t link to the lecture/talk given by Lazzarato […]
Walking Like a Duck
(Via SMH on Michael Clarke’s Duck) Watching the Ashes with Clif at his joint we started discussing the walk between the changeroom and the pitch for batsmen who have just got out. The space between the changeroom and the pitch is an interesting space. The changeroom is literally a ‘standing reserve’ of batsmen. The pitch […]
Ricardo Lagos Dateline Interview
Caught the interview with Chilean President Ricardo Lagos on Dateline last night (click the link and find the interview, cannot link directly to interview). As interviewer George Negus said in the introduction “Lagos is a rare beast – a socialist who’s survived and prospered in a post Cold War world that’s been moving inexorably to […]