A recent adventure in which I’ve been involved in organising (with Sophie Hope and Lorraine Lim) is a Summer Term 2011 postgraduate workshop series on Doing research amongst technologies. Aside from work going into convening the different sessions in the workshop series, I managed to talk myself into co-leading the opening workshop. Luckily, I had … Continue Reading
CFP on ‘the university to come’
UPDATE: The editors of TOPIA have been in touch (how very thorough of them!) and noted a correction – the number for this special issue is TOPIA 28. Original post: TOPIA, the Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies has released a call for papers seeking to tackle recent debates on the future of the university, from … Continue Reading
More to come…
It’s been too long since I have written in these parts. My excuse is twofold: (1) most importantly, happily becoming a parent for the first time this past December, which, for those in the know, is a momentous and notably anti-blog-post-writing event; and (2) enduring a remarkably busy teaching term, of which I am only … Continue Reading
New video on the death of the university, English-style
One of the more valuable interventions vis-à-vis the Browne Review (alongside Stefan Collini’s excellent article in the London Review of Books) has been Nick Couldry and Angela McRobbie’s ‘The Death of the University, English Style’. I liked their paper because it is succinct and also has a helpful focus on the implications for media and … Continue Reading
Does ‘neoliberalism’ help us understand media?
Is ‘neoliberalism’ a concept that works for understanding media? As I left a workshop last Friday at University College London, on the subject of ‘postneoliberalism’, I asked myself this question. My initial, rather impulsive, answer at the beginning of the workshop was no. But I need to put that answer into context. The workshop was … Continue Reading
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CCR Seminar: the mediated phenomenologies of urban life
Earlier this year I gave a seminar at the Centre for Cultural Research (CCR) at the University of Western Sydney, a video of which is now available in the ‘virtual seminars’ section of the CCR website. To access the video you’ll need to navigate through to the clips from 1 July 2010 (there are two … Continue Reading
‘Mashing Up’: Art+Labour
My Birkbeck colleague Sophie Hope is co-organising a quite interesting forthcoming public event on 9th Novermber 2010 at the Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) on the topic of ‘Mashing Up’: Art+Labour. We all hear so much about the cultural and creative industries these days – yes, even still in our current recessionary condition – … Continue Reading
CBC iconography as fodder for beer advertising
I was completely astounded earlier this year when I saw that the classic, old-school CBC logo had somehow become fodder for a beer advertisment, courtesy of global beer flagship Stella Artois. Recyclage de luxe indeed.