I have my little sister visiting from Perth. She was forwarded an email from a friend that sought to connect the James Bulger murder in the UK from the early 1990s to the recent murder of an Perth shopping centre. Discounting the possibility that such a situation has actually occurred, this is a very good […]
Monthly Archives: June 2006
unsupervisable maybe
After just under three and a half years I have finally completed Chapter One of my dissertation. A minor victory. I have finally reached a point with my argument that I will defend until I am blue in the face, yet I will change as soon as someone proves me wrong. That is my definition […]
Foucault, the West Wing, Populations, Semiotics
A weird synchronicity of moments. Like Craig, I am not a fan of the West Wing, however currently screening on Australian TV are the ‘kidnapping’ episodes and I have a score to settle with my busyness. I had seen the first episode in the two-parter some time ago and it has bugged the shit out […]
Tokyo Drift
“You’ve seen it all before, except that you haven’t, not quite this way.” — Todd McCarthy, Variety “Remember when Lost in Translation got all that critical acclaim, but there were still a few naysayers who pointed out that nothing much actually happens in it? If it had had more fast cars and no capable acting […]
Commentary, Foucault
I think it is not without some irony that I can find very little of the huge amount of commentary work that even mentions Foucault’s conception of ‘commentary’ briefly outlined in his inaugural lecture delivered to the College de France. I have a copy of The Archaeology of Knowledge published by Routledge that doesn’t include […]