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Everyday Transformations
Everyday Transformations: The Twenty-First Century Quotidian Annual conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Perth / Fremantle, 9-11 December 2004 Call for Papers New technologies, increasing work pressures, changing gender roles and family structures, increasing flows of refugees and asylum seekers, concerns about security, environmental risks, the escalating speed and complexity of social transactions…
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Art of the Mix
The Art of the Mix is a website dedicated to mix tapes, mixed cds and mp3 playlists. Am loving the titles, cover art (some NSFW), and taxonomy of the mixed tape.
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M/C: The “Porn” Issue
CALL FOR PAPERS M/C: THE “PORN” ISSUE: An upcoming issue of M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture Much media and cultural studies work on, and media coverage of, pornography focuses on the politics of sexual representation on the one hand, and arguments for or against censorship on the other. This issue of M/C aims…
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Another Aust PhD Blog
Found another Australian PhD weblog. it’s called emanations and it belongs to a melbourne uni philosophy student called Matt Carter who I’m pretty sure is the same Matt Carter (and this is so Brisbane) who was a buddy of mine in first year linguistics at the University of Queensland, and who actually lived across the…
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Full Steam Ahead for the Music Commons
New on the Opsound site: open source audio, i.e. many Opsound artists have offered to provide uncompressed source material for remixing. And Creative Commons has released their new Music Sharing License and the Get Content search engine, which allows you to search for remix-ready, sharable, or downloadable music.
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Now this is retro chic
Found via Dan Hill (the man has taste), Kempa.com has the best show-and-tell blog post I’ve seen in ages (including pics): One strategy that major record companies have been employing lately to deter downloading is adding bonus computer content to new CD releases. I recently discovered that this technique is not unique to CD’s, but…
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Creative Commons launched in Australia
The Australian affiliate of Creative Commons, a new international movement to address issues of balance, compromise and moderation over copyright issues will be launched at the University of Melbourne under the auspices of IPRIA next week. Woo-hoo!
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Uncollectables and Urban (Un)Regeneration
The Network of Un-Collectable Artists (NUCA) is preparing for the Limited Edition release of a set of BubbleGum Collector cards documenting the activities of Australia’s 50 Most Uncollectable Artists. NUCA is a brand new nation-wide affiliation connecting those who gravitate towards ephemeral projects, participatory experiences, illegal art actions, and activities that oddify everyday life. Some…
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A Non-blogger’s lament
In The Village Voice:a non-blogger’s lament (i.e. blogging is threatening hip NY society – hmmm…must be a violin around here somewhere). Thanks to Jill for the link.
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Magnatune blog and Creative Commons comp
John Buckman, who runs Creative Commons’ favourite “online music label” magnatune, now has a blog. I liked the transcription of a cute exchange between Buckman and a major label exec, who apparently doesn’t like being called evil. Speaking of CC, Seb’s Open Research points us to the winning video in the Creative Commons Moving Image…