Doctor Who Season Four Final

"Forever Young" and the politics of meaning

Innovation and the Humanities

TVLand Australia
A group of researchers I know are building a website to gather personal recollections of Australian television. The site is currently small, but growing, and they would like your input. Access is free (register to contribute) and the entries so far are very interesting. Well worth a look… http://tvlandaustralia.com From the “About” page: The project focuses on the popular experience of television and its role in forming national culture. As well as the usual academic sources, our research includes people’s memories and personal collections, and ‘ephemera’ like popular publications.

100 Best Blogs?
Thanks for the nod, OnlineCourses, I hope we can live up to the endorsement. 100 Best Blogs for the Literati If you feel that you’re destined to be an intellectual long after you graduate from college, you’re going to have to work a little harder to keep up with high brow culture and scholarly debates on your own. These 100 blogs will help you jump in on the discussions influencing the art, literature, political and culture worlds, even without the support of your professors and fellow classmates. “High brow culture”? That reminds

Vale Claude Lévi-Strauss
A short snippet from my thesis: What I have been talking about here is the opposition of nature and culture, and while a little culture is a good thing—very few of the champions of natural food actually want to eat everything raw, and even the most dedicated blues guitarist will play the most carefully crafted instrument that they can afford—the over-produced or the processed product is to be avoided. As Frith puts it, “the continuing core of rock ideology is that raw sounds are more authentic than cooked sounds” (“Art Versus Technology” 266). The raw and the cooked: one of the defining dichotomies of popular culture, and a cen

Labour Photo of the Year
The winner of the annual “Labour Photo of the Year,” organised by the LabourStart organisation, has been announced. K M Asad, an Indian photojournalist, won with a striking image of a Bangladeshi boy resting after working, probably unpaid, in a filthy shipyard. The photo is a stark reminder that child labour is an ongoing issue in some parts of the world. Asad’s caption reads: A Bangladeshi boy works in a shipbuilding factory in down town. These factories employ young boys as apprentices without pay for the

The State of the Industry
The State of the Industry: the future for cultural research in the university Thursday-Friday, 26th and 27th November 2009 The University of New South Wales, Kensington The State of the Industry is a two day conference that will discuss the future for cultural research in the university, while marking the conclusion of a highly successful period of Australian Research Council funding for the Cultural Research Network. The event will showcase a range of innovative research collaborations and projects that the Cultural Research Network has generated, linking different disciplines, institutions and com