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alternate existence
I don’t know where I’ve been for the last 3 months (well, yes, of course I do – Thesis Hell), but I seem to have come out the other side. It might be that some of the pressure is off, or the realisation this is the only holiday I’m going to get until this time…
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final seminar done
Last Friday I presented my final PhD seminar in front of a pretty substantial audience and an internal panel. I was unusually tense but I got through it without falling over. I enjoyed the Q&A with the audience, who threw in some pretty tough questions on issues that I had skated over in the presentation…
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I met the Whitlams!
And not the band either. Considering the anaemic, socially conservative mess that is the Australian Labor Party today, and the fact that Gough is probably a bit over the whole running the country thing, I think we should start a Margaret for PM Campaign.
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small announcement
On Wednesday I submitted a draft of my thesis to the faculty research office, leading up to my final seminar, which will be happening next Friday the 8th of December, 12-2. Producing this draft nearly killed me, but not quite, and I was determined to do my final seminar before the end of the year,…
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Australian Snapshots
I’ve just caught up with the 2006 Australian Snapshots exhibition: The Australian Snapshots initiative began in August 2004, when 150 disposable cameras were sent to Local Radio listeners across regional Australia with a request to photograph sports, leisure and daily activities that connected their communities. The rationale behind using disposable cameras was to create an…
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CFP: M/C Journal – ‘mobile’
M/C Journal Call for Papers: ‘mobile’ Edited by Larissa Hjorth & Olivia Khoo Convergence has become part of burgeoning mobile media. The mobile phone has come of age. As an integral component of visual media cultures, camera phone practices are arguably both extending and creating emerging ways of seeing and representing. In media footage of…
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lost in light
what a cool idea: This is a project about the 8mm film format. But 8mm is dead, you say? On the contrary! Not only is the format alive with innovation by filmmakers around the world, but hours and hours of Super 8 and regular 8mm film exist in attics and basements the world over—as home…
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Clifford Geertz 1926-2006
Via the AoIR list this morning, I heard that Clifford Geertz has died of heart surgery complications at the age of 80. I’ll never forget the epiphanic moment I had when I was introduced to ‘thick description’ as an undergraduate via Geertz’s essay Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, which opens like this: Early…
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more on the ‘get a mac’ ads and stereotypes
In response to a bit of discussion going on about the ads reinforcing stereotypes, mainly started by Jill, who kindly linked to my last post on the topic: The Mac is one sort of instantly recognisable, vaguely urban, effortlessly cool white American guy, the PC is another, deeply unattractive, old economy nerd sort of (much…