IBM: “capitalism is in decline”

by jebni on July 30, 2005

Yesterday I was a tech-wrangler at an event featuring IBM executive Mark Bagshaw, who opened his presentation with the surprising observation that “it’s very nice that some asylum seekers are being released today, but if you look at the wider (…)

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video worker

by jebni on July 26, 2005

A lot of my paid work this year has been spent converting the VHS-based video library of a fairly old-skool industrial union to DVD. There’s a lot of interesting shit in there, I can tell you! For a start, there’s (…)

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construction time again

by jebni on July 25, 2005

Thinking aloud: a few months ago, my supervisor offhandedly suggested that I could “create some sort of tool” as part of my research on blogging and “marginality”. Having let that brew for a while, I’m now thinking seriously about developing (…)

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there’s a place for us

by jebni on July 24, 2005

I was always a West Side Story fan as a kid, but I somehow never remembered Saul Bass’s killer titling design for the end credits. Outstanding. Question: when did Hollywood films begin displaying credits at the end, rather than the (…)

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links for 2005-07-23

by jebni on July 23, 2005

apophenia: Privacy is a Privilege “Ever stop to wonder why most of you are straight, white and male? It’s kinda obvious if you stop to think about it. Repeat after me: privacy is a privilege.” (tags: privacy public-sphere danah-boyd habermas) (…)

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and all the children sing…

by jebni on July 22, 2005

The other morning I caught Justine Clarke presenting Play School and sighed. Now, I don’t remember Clarke from her stint on Home and Away; rather, for me she will always be Anna Goanna from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. I’ve never (…)

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dismemberment

by jebni on July 21, 2005

Wahey, my abstract for the Re-Membering Place, Dis-Membering Home conference has been accepted! Hello, Brisvegans! [ tags: brisbane, conference, queensland, research ]

angelus novus

by jebni on July 19, 2005

“A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one (…)

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visitation

by jebni on July 18, 2005

In Angels In America, the central character, Prior Walter, is spectrally visited by two of his ancestors — “prior” instances of the name “Prior Walter”. Both Priors died of the plague — one during the medieval Black Death, and the (…)

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celestial intervention

by jebni on July 18, 2005

I was happy to bump into Louise D’Arcens at Writing Across Cultures.* Louise was one of my teachers twelve years ago, and taught a course about medieval women writers. I think she was the first person to introduce me to (…)

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