In the comments to my Genealogy of Talent Time post I wondered: [D]o you think that the ultimate result of the post-WW2 entertainment revolution will be something like the home freezer? Where we once had ice home delivered because no one really had the technology to produce ‘ice’ at home. If talent has become a […]
Monthly Archives: December 2005
Eventalization of Everything
For an excellent example and explication of Foucault’s methodological conception of ‘eventalization‘ see “Anger Be Now Thy Song: The Anthropology of an Event” by Steven C. Caton. Caton is an Anthropology Prof at Havard. It is totally cool that he writes such excellent papers with main titles that could be shared with a late-1980s heavy […]
Two Modes of Neo-Liberal Subjectivity
Watched the flick Thumbsucker yesterday. It was pretty good and I recommend it, especially for Cult Studs types. [SPOILERS BELOW!] I wish I had seen something like that when I was a teenager. There are definite resonances between my life trajectory and the coming-of-age story of the main character, Justin. For him it is New […]
D&G Time
I have uploaded some random images I have taken on my camera phone and some that are from the recent CSAA conference. This one is funny. D&G are aristocratic commodities advertised on the side of a public phone booth. Note the public transport and once-was publicly owned phone company Telstra in the background. There is […]
Price War Exit
 Shoppingtown, Surrey Hills. We are in-cased in mass-produced ceiling tiles protecting us from the ‘weather’. It is a price war. Everything. Even the exits are sign-posted to enable evacuations. The exit is not an exit, just another room with mass-produced protection. Just in case… They are watching; can you seen them watching? Monitoring just […]