Comedian Steve Martin has a piece in the Smithsonian (via BB) in which he discusses the mechanics of humor in terms of the affective tension and (non)release of this tension. He describes what is literally the management (affective modulation) of what Deleuze and Guattari (following Bateson) call a plateau of intensity. In a college psychology […]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
expectations of juno
Jesse Miksic at Pop Politics has a post up on Juno. Towards the end of the post: It may be worth noting that the pregnancy, and all its attendant issues of birth control, hardship, and stigmatization, was peripheral to the real substance of the film. The feminist question isn’t addressed in terms of womanhood and […]
Back to Sydney
I am flying back to Sydney shortly. I hope my car is still there! lol!!! ::cry:: Tomorrow I begin a teaching gig: Cultures of Masculinity. Should be fun!
Fodder Out of the Opportunities
This is another older post draft that I don’t think I’ll have time to finish, so up it goes… “Obviously, we’ve got to deal with defensiveness about people’s heritage. Many white Australians, of conservative and traditional bearing, are defensive. Many ordinary Australians are defensive about their own heritage, and if we continue to cast a […]
new mobilities
This post is comlpetely overdue. I don’t think I’ll get it finished now. So I’ll post it as is… — — — Had the last day of the New Mobilities workshop Saturday and I have been finishing my marking. The workshop was a series of three long days and even longer nights of wonderful engagement […]