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Counter-Heroics
Hurrah – the Counter-Heroics and Counter-Professionalism in Cultural Studies Special Issue of Continuum, which grew out of the ‘Fields of Uncool’ panel at the CSAA conference way back in 2004, is now out! Thanks so much to Mel, Kris, Jane and Will for one of the most energising and productive collaborations I’ve been involved with […]
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multipliCity
Some colleagues of mine have just started a new interdisciplinary email discussion list that should be of interest to anyone working on cities/urban spaces: multipliCity — Conversations on cities Multiplicity is an online discussion forum for all matters urban. As paradigmatic of the modern and postmodern experience, the city remains defiantly at the epicentre of […]
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monthly MACS tomorrow
Speaking of collaboration: Monthly MACS is a cross-institutional network of early career researchers, postgraduate students, postdocs, RAs and sessional staff working in Media and Cultural Studies across Brisbane. We meet regularly during semester to discuss issues which relate to these roles, debate wider trends in the field and have a few drinks afterwards. You can […]
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unAustralia (Call for Papers)
unAustralia: Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference, Canberra, 6-8 December, 2006. If things are ‘un-Australian’ it must be because they come from UNAUSTRALIA. Where is it? Who lives there? How does it come to be? What is its past and what is its future? While raising some very local questions of critique and desire, […]
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the death and life of a great urban crusader
Sad news via Molly Steenson. Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and several other books to which Floridean “creative cities” arguments owe a lot more than you’d think, has died at 89. The NY Times has a long and thoughtful piece about her life and work.
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Seminar: The Gendered Ties that Bind
The Gendered Ties That Bind the ‘New Global Governance’ to the ‘New Information Economy’ Associate Professor Lisa McLaughlin CENTRE FOR CRITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES PUBLIC SEMINAR SERIES Thursday 20th April, 2.00-3.30pm CCCS Seminar Room, Level 4, Forgan Smith Building, University of Queensland St Lucia Campus As the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) illustrates, […]
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slower, softer
Let me just frame this by saying that I am at the business end of trying to construct a doctoral thesis on the implications for cultural citizenship of vernacular creativity in “new media” contexts. I use radically mixed methods and my concept maps always start with ‘worms-eye’ views. I try to live up to the […]
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Ideas Festival
The Ideas Festival, four days of ideas, innovation and invention will be held from 29 March to 2 April 2006 at Brisbane’s South Bank. The Festival program includes: o 100 national, international and local speakers o 73 speaker sessions o 23 sessions for secondary students in the new Ideas for Schools program o a free […]
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AoIR Panel
[Apologies for loooooong blockquotes] I recently received word that the AoIR 7.0 panel I’m organising with Melissa Gregg, Sal Humphreys, David Berry and Christina Spurgeon has been accepted. The title of the panel is ‘Creativity and its Discontents: Critical Perspectives on the Cultural Economy of New Media’, and here’s the abstract: In recent years there […]
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Public talk on participatory design
I’m going to this – quite excited that there is such an interest in critical design theory in Built Environment and Engineering at QUT: Faculty of the Built Environment and Engineering School of Design and Design Research Theme Invite you for a public talk Design for, by and with users: from participatory design to meta-design […]