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Urban Brisbane Photo Exhibition
Yay! A showcase of work from three members of the Brisbanites Flickr group: Manfreds Bar, The Valley Thursday 20th July, 7:00pm A collection of photographs will be on display which seek to explore Brisbane and some of it’s lesser-known areas both above and below the city streets. These may be the things you walk past…
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vernacular literacy
I don’t want ‘vernacular’ to become another ubiquitous adjective that I just stick in front of every ‘traditional’ cultural category, just like ‘e’ went in front of every Foucauldian discourse/institution 10 years ago (e-education, e-medicine, e-government). Especially considering that I’ve only recently added Nava’s ‘vernacular cosmopolitanism‘ to the pile of readings for my thesis on…
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Mica Nava on ‘vernacular cosmopolitanism’
In the special issue of Theory, Culture & Society on Cosmopolitanism – (19.1-2): Cosmopolitan Modernity : Everyday Imaginaries and the Register of Difference Mica Nava Debates about cosmopolitanism in the spheres of political philosophy, sociology and postcolonial criticism have on the whole ignored specific histories of the cosmopolitan imagination and its vernacular expressions in everyday…
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In my letterbox today
This is the second time I’ve seen this ad, the first time was on a traffic light pole near my house. I have always been intrigued by the stories behind the ads and notices people put up in public places. I remember one at UQ that was scrawled in big felt pen lettering and said…
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Deuze in conversation with Bauman, plus Cosmopolitan Cultural Citizenship and Flickr
Mark Deuze has been thinking, writing, and exchanging ideas with Zygmunt Bauman about liquid modernity, ‘community’ and the Internet, and I’ve been following along with Mark as he works through his ideas. This is the latest Bauman quote, in context here:
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Web 2.0 crowdsourcers tossing coins to the crowds
Via CNet via Rachel’s del.icio.us:Saturday saw the launch of eefoof.com, a site that promises to share a percentage of the site’s revenue depending on how many viewers a video clip attracts. CNet positions this as a ‘challenge’ to youtube. Read the full article for the rest of the hot air and vapours. Now, because I…
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Sleepy City: urban photography exhibition
A couple of years back (how time flies!), I got very interested in urban exploration photography, and even published an interview with the then-anonymous local artist known as dsankt who is behind Sleepy City, a project that has yielded some quite beautiful photographs of subterranean Brisbane. Recently Sleepy City joined forces with other like-minded artists…
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CSAA Abstract
Following the more timely examples of the two Mels (here is one, and here is the other) I (somewhat belatedly) have just submitted an abstract for this year’s CSAA conference, which will be held in sunny Canberra. I had the idea months ago but couldn’t wrangle it into a pithy enough form until now, plus…
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seductive mistake-ography
I’ve just uploaded some of the images from my very first rolls of medium format film, which I butchered in a Holga ‘toy’ camera and a Lubitel (a bit less of a toy, but still plastic). I shot off the first few rolls pretty much just as I wandered around the house. I love the…
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Henry Jenkins now has a blog
Henry Jenkins, leading scholar in fandom, participatory culture, media convergence and vernacular media theory and Director of the Comparative Media Center at MIT has just started a blog, mainly, he says, to promote his new book Convergence Culture. I secretly hope it spirals out of control way beyond that, and with the number of people…