I have recently written about sharing (halfway down the post) in the context of new experiences producing new configurations of intimacy and estrangement. Cathie McGinn has an interesting and, for me at least, provocative post on her blog about the tension between the public/private distinction and the socio-technical convenience of sharing online. She argues that […]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Cultural Politics of Unhappy Little Vegemites
There have been various critiques already mobilised regarding what is at stake in this uFail 2.0 iSnack 2.0 shenanigans. I like Chookspot’s critique on on nationalistic grounds where the unveiling of the new name was likened to someone in the US arse-fucking a bald eagle as the quarter time entertainment at the Superbowl. It reminds […]
Fail Fail: Multiplicities of Fail
So I have incorporated too much internet geek-speak into my everyday vocabulary. I understand it is an attempt to speak in a variation of language different to that I am exposed to in the office while being able to express the difference and make sense. If I spoke in high-Deleuzian then it wouldn’t have the […]
What is Journalism, Tom Switzer?
Tom Switzer has a go at Jason Wilson over whether or not there is a left-leaning bias in professional journalism in Australia. Tom Switzer used to be the editor of opinion at the Australian newspaper, which perhaps provides a reason for his confusion over what journalism actually is. It is comical even to me that […]
She left the bit with the most toast crumbs
The title of this post from a poem I am working on. For me it expresses the way we form relations with the world around us both in terms of intimacy and estrangement. What follows is an improvised meditation on the way I am trying to grapple with a feeling of loneliness and relations of […]