Following Axel Bruns tweeting of the QUT Industry Conversations: The future of journalism in Australia where Sally Young was making some good observations about the current state of the journalism industry. Sally examines political communication and the media industry. What sparked my interest in this was Axel’s tweet: Of course, one response to this is […]
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Journal Collecting
One of the pleasures of having worked in a bookstore with a secondhand books department is being able to access original publications of journals and other collected works. I discovered the joy of finding older publications during my PhD research where I had to construct my own archive. Here are some previous finds. A recent […]
Writing on Nationalisms
I am working on two papers that require a rigorous conceptualisation of the ‘nation’. One is hopefully going to be a group effort from some of my colleagues here and it is about an event space in Canberra. I am constructing a draft introduction so we are have a shared reference point. The other paper […]
Adorno as a critical theorist of temporality
Any critique of Adorno’s concept of the culture industry or mass culture that begins by introducing the notion of identity and the relation between identity and any segment of culture focuses on what is essentially the weakest, if not inconsequential, part of Adorno’s critique. The ‘identity’ critique is based on an overvaluation of the importance […]
Hilarious. Miranda Devine, Say Yes to Climate Action
Miranda Devine’s latest column is a howler. I guess we should expect her to represent the carbon tax as taxing the air we breathe if she thinks that Newspoll is a scientific survey. Beyond Devine’s built-in hilarity is the location and content of the Google Ad below her article, which links to the climate action […]