At M/C Journal I have a piece titled The Getaway in the Affect issue (edited by Mel Gregg) and it is on ‘speed’ and the transmission of affects in the Getaway in Stockholm series of films. At Philament I have a piece titled The XXX Test in the XXX theme issue and it is on […]
Monthly Archives: December 2005
On Mateship
Clif makes some excellent comments in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald about the young blokes who were rioting on Sunday. Dr Evers thought that what perhaps the riot displayed most was the power of mateship. “Most of those guys wouldn’t have had a clue. They could be wound up by all the fascist […]
Reactionary Nationlism: Cronulla Riots
“It began as a street party, as if Australia Day had arrived early.” ‘Cronulla’ is now a name forever associated with popularist racial violence. See graphic video here (where the above quote comes from). Warning: that video is not for the easily shaken. Hmm, the big political blogs in Australian are surprisingly quiet on this, […]
Confronting Stupidity
I made the observation at a recent USyd/UWS postgrad event that the experience for contemporary postgrads of being a postgrad is not the same as it was for the current crop of Profs. when they were postgrads. The problem of neo-liberal mechanisms of subjectivation is a problem for us (the postgrads) not so much them […]
Fan-Events
Crossposted comment on an article by Jonathan Gray over at the online television journal ‘Flow‘. Some of Jonathan’s points cross over with some of my research interests. I am interested in what happens in fan or enthusiast communities in the period between ‘fan-events’. My original thinking was focused on film, but now I have shift […]