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…and more good academic obituaries
Anne kindly forwarded me this piece posted by Pam Sykes to nettime: Much of what Andrea Dworkin had to say made me profoundly uncomfortable. For that, and for her courage in continuing to say it, she has my gratitude and my respect. She also had a deep understanding of and respect for the power of…
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More Bad Academic Obituaries
I just heard that Andrea Dworkin has died. Having had a bit to do with both the academic study of pornography and feminism, I’m not a big fan [of her books, that is]. But I think it’s pretty obvious that we can expect a rash of highly suspect obituaries about her, as we saw with…
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The Work of Stories
In a sudden twist of good fortune, I’m presenting in place of my supervisor John Hartley at MIT4: The Work of Stories in May – this is the fourth of MIT’s Media in Transition conferences, which I’ve wanted to go to all along. The line-up looks great, should be an enriching few days for me,…
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the work-life-humans matrix
I’ve just informed the organisers of Blogtalk that I’m pulling out – a very sad state of affairs, but I’ve had to give myself a serious reality check when it comes to the amount of extra-PhD commitments I keep piling on my own plate. And sorry Christian, Glen, Ben and Mel for leaving the party…
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Creative Commons @ BBC
FREE PUBLIC TALK The BBC’s Creative Archive Project: New Approaches to Accessing Creative Content with Paula Le Dieu Garden’s Point Theatre, QUT, 5.30pm to 7.00pm Wednesday, 2 March 2005 The BBC’s announcement that it will release archived material under Creative Commons styled licences has captured worldwide attention. Paula Le Dieu has been at the centre…
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CFP: DAC 2005
CFP: Digital Arts and Cultures (DAC) 2005: Digital Experience: Design, Aesthetics, Practice, 1st – 3rd December, 2005, IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark. Hmmmmm….Copenhagen!
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Microcosmographia Academica
My good friend and open source crusader David Berry has taken the time to turn a plain text version of F.M. Conford’s famous 1908 satire on university politics, Microcosmographia Academica, into a much prettier pdf version. Choice cuts: 0 young academic politician, my heart is full of pity for you now; but when you are…
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Call for Papers
The Iowa Journal of Communication announces a 2005 special issue on internet communication, guest edited by Mark Johns. Manuscripts should be received no later than *** MARCH 1, 2005 *** Computer-mediated technologies (CMTs) are no longer the province of “techies,” but have become everyday means of social interaction in our society. This interdisciplinary issue welcomes…
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learning as play
Just when I was feeling anxious about the apparently endless complexity of my scattered, bowerbirdesque, messy methods of conceptual work (yes, beware, it’s the PhD monster…), here’s Philip Pullman in the Guardian, via blackbeltjones. It begins with nursery rhymes and nonsense poems, with clapping games and finger play and simple songs and picture books. It…
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BlogTalk Downunder abstract
Remember, abstracts for BlogTalk Downunder are due on Monday 31 Jan. This is mine, fingers crossed… Blogging Technologies and the Social Construction of Genre The web is rife with over-generalised and underexamined discursive constructions of particular blogging platforms, blogging genres, and their users: we are led to believe that LiveJournal users are all teenage girls…