Here is the reading I wrote for the wedding I attended yesterday. It was a very good day. I performed my reading well. I think I have almost come to terms with my stutter, as I performed near flawlessly. Having delivered almost 100 lectures and taught countless (400+) tutorials has certainly helped. Love and Temporality […]
Category Archives: Suttering
rocket science
I am watching Rocket Science. Fuck. It is traumatic. Watching someone else try to speak with a stutter while debating, all those moments, those thoughts, those feelings, the capacity to spell out the words in your mind and not say them, nothing is as traumatic as seeing the sympathetic looks of people in the audience […]
Technique to help stutterers when public speaking
I accidently figured out that if I write a word when speaking then I don’t stutter when saying it. I realised this a few weeks ago when giving a lecture for the summer school course I was teaching and I wrote down a phrase I wanted to find again and research when I got home. […]
canon
One of the funny lines from the new Transformers movie (which I have now seen three times) is when Ironhide whips out two large weapon-looking things from his wrists and ‘aims’ them at the human teenager helping the Autobots and says: I just wanted to show him my canons. There is an element of mechano-homosocial […]
Canberras
Within the town there is always another town. — Gilles Deleuze Capital City Canberra Canberra is the capital city of the Australian Capital Territory and of Australia. It is the nation’s capital. The explicit monumentality of monuments is obvious but the architecture of Canberra also exhibits a kind of monumental interaction. The buildings and structures […]