Archive for the “journal” category
galactica: my friend the blob
by jebni on December 16, 2006
I can’t find my ancient copy of Battlestar Galactica 2: The Cylon Death Machine, and it hurts. Of course, because I’m such a fan of the current series, it doesn’t seem likely that a novelisation of the original, cheesy Battlestar (…)
talk machines
by jebni on November 10, 2006
I’m completely overwhelmed by the rhetorical skills of American PhD students — actually, by the rhetorical skills of everyone who’s not an Australian humanities postgrad, which seems to be the worst possible combination of institutionalised incapacities to explain anything. Add (…)
welcome to the social
by jebni on November 2, 2006
Am I the only one who’s intrigued and yet absolutely terrified that the slogan for Microsoft’s forthcoming “iPod killer” music player, the Zune, is “WELCOME TO THE SOCIAL”? I can’t help reading it as a general theoretical category — “the (…)
it’s up to your knees out there
by jebni on October 30, 2006
Soon I’m off to Chicago for the Dialogue Under Occupation conference. How exciting! But what’s scaring me the most is that it’s 3°C there right now. Ouch. Anyway, here’s the abstract of what I’ll be presenting: ‘The Earth is (…)
hot boyfriends
by jebni on October 25, 2006
Don’t cha wish your boyfriend was hot like me Don’t cha wish your boyfriend was a freak like me Don’t cha, don’t cha This is a couple of weeks overdue: the best pop vocal performance I’ve seen this year was (…)
three way street
by jebni on October 25, 2006
I’ve actually been blogging lately — not here, but at Three Way Street, “a group blog that explores how people remember, engage with and remake their environments in creative, everyday ways.” It’s an off-the-cuff collaboration with some of the folks (…)
psychogeographers of the world, converge
by jebni on September 15, 2006
However did I miss this? [ tags: urbanism, psychogeography, spatiality, space ]
command shift
by jebni on September 9, 2006
I kinda painted myself into a corner with this blog — there’s been such a backlog of interesting stuff (which I haven’t been in the mood to write about) that I seriously considered giving the whole thing up earlier this (…)
i still dream of organon
by jebni on September 8, 2006
Breaking radio silence to note the passing of Peter Brock, the racing legend known for his bizarre links to psychoanalytic Marxism. Yep, I’m talking about the “Energy Polariser” used in his modified Holdens, which apparently ran on Wilhelm Reich‘s “orgone (…)
just a shot away
by jebni on August 15, 2006
I’ve always been a bit sceptical about my own relationship to Arabness as a vicarious “proxy ethnicity” — I’ve recently written long, soul-searching emails to various friends about this issue, and it’s always been funny when H introduces me to (…)