My ‘mobile phone’ notes on the final plenary panel session of the 2012 CSAA conference http://www.csaa2012.org/ All panelists addressed the question: What matters for cultural studies? GT Few would describe it as a discipline. Training in a disciplinarity Teaching downgraded. Conduct in everyday life. Don’t believe surrendering the space to solving problems of business. Critical pedagogic […]
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Working paper seminar series
Below is the title and abstract of a paper I shall be presenting this Friday as part of our working papers seminar series. It is based on about the first third/half of a paper I am trying to finish about the garage-assemblage. Actual paper does not really engage with Summernats. Title: “Show us your tits”: Summernats, […]
Ontology of events and politics
After reading this on Levi’s blog and this on Ian Bogost’s blog I left the below comment on Bogost’s blog: I’m glad the focus has finally shifted more to the ontology of events, rather than objects. I find ‘events’ far more interesting on a number of levels. Ontology of events requires a different metaphysics, what […]
Of gap-sense: On Morton’s Of Planet-Sense
Tim Morton gave a talk at NIEA, Sydney, August 25, 2012 “Of planet-sense”. He offers a reading of the film Avatar as the successful completion of modernity, rather than its (hippie, environmental, etc.) reversal. All quotes below are to his talk, apologies in advance for any errors of transcription. The planet of Pandora with its […]
Communication Technologies & Change unit
Below is a draft weekly schedule for a final year undergraduate unit I am teaching second semester this year. The unit is titled Communication Technologies & Change. I am inheriting the unit and the previous iteration focused on ‘new media’ and the various affordances of online technologies. The brief I was given was to shift […]