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Our collective response to Bowie’s death is as real as it gets
[Cross-posted to Medium] On social media, the scale of the response to Bowie’s death has been astonishing. It also seems to have been as emotionally intense and widespread across countries and demographics as it was high in volume. We threatened to break Spotify’s servers when the whole planet went straight to the Bowie back catalogue…
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Out now: The Video Vortex Reader
The Video Vortex Reader is a new collection of critical essays on online video, edited by Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer published by the Institute of Network Cultures. It has just been launched, and it’s available for free download as a pdf! The Video Vortex Reader is the first collection of critical texts to deal…
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Sorry
Tomorrow, the Prime Minister will say sorry to Indigenous Australians, and especially to the members of the Stolen Generations, on behalf of the Parliament and successive Governments. Shamefully, it comes more than a decade after the Bringing Them Home report. It’s very significant, it’s about time, and it’s (only) a start. The sense of occasion…
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Mediating Cultural Politics: A Dialogue with Georgina Born
It feels as though my first blog entry after a long and mysterious absence should be witty, engaging, or revelatory in some way, making my rudely unexplained absence all worthwhile, and giving the impression that my author function is emerging butterfly-like from a cocoon of silence. Sadly, this is not that blog entry, but who…
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off to london
I’m off to London tonight to attend Cultural Studies Now, where I’ll be giving this paper on a panel with Mel Gregg, Kiley Gaffney and Nadia Mizner: Terms of Engagement: Doing Cultural Studies in the Enterprise University Simon During recently argued that the structure of research funding in Australia and the rise of the ‘enterprise…
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to get better art we just need more love songs
I’ve been thinking again about relational aesthetics thanks to Kris Cohen who has been shooting me some of the discussions occurring around it and related matters in art theory, and generally hurting my brain, in a really good way. Being the intellectual dilettante I am, I’m just genuinely interested, but as before, I’m also trying…
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complexity, pragmatism, cultural studies
The title of this post is a bit too ponderous for its content, which is going to be nothing more than some quick-and-dirty thinking out loud. It was prompted by a few things: Anne’s brief post mentioning mess and method, my participation next month in a CRN Masterclass with John Urry on ‘complexities and mobilities,…
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Jürgen on YouTube
An interview with Jürgen Habermas on YouTube: So, Habermas comes to the interweb. Or does he? There are those who say he still doesn’t quite get it, but I think there is much in his more recent work that–perhaps against his will–allows for a non-broadcast, networked model of the public sphere and a re-evaluation of…
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DJ Spooky at the European Graduate School
One of several European Graduate School videos featuring famous Capital-T Theory dudes available at YouTube. (Thanks Glen). This presentation by DJ Spooky aka Paul Miller on the theory and practice of Rhythm Science is my favourite.
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Cultural Studies: PhD Fellowship in India
via the email: The Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) offers a fellowship awarded by SEPHIS to a student from any country in the South to spend one academic year in Bangalore, India, beginning July 2007. The main purpose of the fellowship programme is to help develop alternative frameworks for research and…