((At our wedding reception on Saturday Sally will say thank you to everyone so my job  in our shared speech is to be a philosopher… This is a first draft.))

To follow on from Sally, thank you so very much for joining us today to celebrate this moment. We both feel, however, that it would be amiss to not say something of love itself.

All of the ( Read more... )

The university has agreed to let me run a philosophy school over the winter break: two intensive weeks of contemporary philosophy and popular culture! It's quite a coup because the whole thing is my baby and could be the new regularly appearing course in the Contemporary Culture and Society major (basically sociology/philosophy/political economy) ( Read more... )

I'm thinking about starting up a new blog. Something more intellectual/philosophical/conceptual/critical than LJ tends to be for me, perhaps even more poetic than Twitter or romantic than Facebook, or existential than ye olde MySpace. I have TP, but it needs both an update and an over-haul ( Read more... )

Badiou says, "The story number four is about love and religion ( Read more... )

My completed graph of Kant's deontological ethics.


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Sometimes I get asked why I am so eager to get out of Australia's higher education environment in favour of a close cousin on foreign shores. Usually an answer is easy enough to feign, "Not good enough for them here until you've been 'over there'." But then you get moments like this that offer up more precise reasons for wanting to flee the (un) ( Read more... )

I think vegetarians are starting to make me violent... Well, it's just that very few have a solid rationale for their restrictive eating habits ( Read more... )

This morning SH and I had coffee with an old highschool friend, Mez, at Aromas. Mez was always a bigger girl at school, but she's really trimmed down and looks gorgeous. She's quite a friendly dame too, and off to Perisha soon to break some arms hearts on the ski slopes ( Read more... )

If you've read this lj at all you've probably picked up on two things:

• My PhD deals in the blackmarket economy of intellectual labour
• And, I spend a lot of time dealing with the work of intellectuals from the EGS

As it turns out, the EGS have now set up a shiny new YouTube channel where you can get all the contemporary theory you can handle in a 9 to ( Read more... )

I'm having one of those mornings where I'm utterly terrified of actually writing anything thesis-related before it's 9am. Therefore I am going to subject my lj to a heuristic mantra, courtesy of Chuck Palahniuk and the Dust Brothers, and the vain need to post song lyrics in one's online journal.

And you open the door and you step inside ( Read more... )