We asked consumers to elaborate on what they like in pornography. Many of them used the term ‘quality’ to describe what makes for good pornography. More specifically, one key issue that several interviewees spontaneously mentioned was that the best pornography is where ‘you can see real enjoyment’. The word ‘enjoyment’, or the idea of people […]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
draft cfp
Can readers comment on this for me please? It is for a well known online Australian journal. Nothing concrete has been organised yet, just an idea floated. Enthuse Enthusiasm can be ‘blind’, yet without it, ‘no great deed can be done’. What does it mean to be enthused or an enthusiast? Kant described enthusiasm as […]
Remediation: n-productions?
After about three years of grappling with this problem on and off, I have figured out the main problem I have with Bolter and Grusin’s concept of ‘remediation’. They write in a note to page 53: The logic of remediation we describe here is similar to Derrida’s (1981) account of mimesis, where mimesis is defined […]
interwebs lecture
I am currently writing a guest lecture for the unit in which I am tutoring at the University of Sydney. The lecture is on the internet, new media and participatory publics. I am having fun with how much of my own prejudices get written into the lecture with the structure. I begin with a history […]
Defamation
Just finished putting together a monstrosity of a power point presentation for my first-year journalism lecture tomorrow on defamation. While preparing for this lecture I realised that the textbook set for this unit (which I inherited) is out of date. There was massive reform to defamation law in Australia in 2006. Textbook was published 2004. […]