Having lived here for a few months now, I've come to realise that Marrickville is actually pretty damn cool. From the ever-closed cake shop (alt: drug den) to the strangely high population of butchers, there's something for everyone. Well, from drug addicts to iron-chef enthusiasts, which encompasses most of the people I know ( Read more... )

Well, I didn't achieve anything concrete today, but I prepared to do something useful, which is, I think, almost more important.

In fact, the body essay that I've been telling you about was the subject of an epiphany. Not an epiphany in the intellectual sense, but in the indextual sense. That means I found an alternative table of contents at the ( Read more... )

I can't believe they don't sell iced tea in Sydney. I mean, actual tea, not that sucrose-laden Nestea shizz. Actually, if I was some sort of capitalist I would invest in it.

Furthermore, I can't believe that nowhere on campus sells stationery on Saturday. My pen just ran out, and if I want to be able to write on paper I have to go to Glebe.

I am ( Read more... )

Noam Chomsky on postmodernist and poststructuralist criticism of "straight, white male science" (asked to respond to it):

I have spent a lot of my life working on questions such as these, using the only methods I know of; those condemned here as "science", "rationality," "logic," and so on. I therefore read the papers with some hope that they would ( Read more... )

1)Read beforehand ( Read more... )

http://www.helpx.net/index.asp

It's a site where you go and help out on organic farms in other countries, in exchange for room and board.

It would be so cool to go to France for a couple of months in the Christmas holidays.

Ugh. So i woke up dehydrated and alone at Darling street at 10:30 this morning. I haven't had a shower yet. I got a chocolate croissant for breakfast from Glebe point road. And so as I'm sure you can imagine, it was a particularly haggard bed-haired gargoyle that rocked up to this internet cafe.

I think when someone cleaned this tabletop they didn't ( Read more... )

Lots of queer people are troubled by the perceived hegemony gay marriage has within queer - and general - society. Here's some reasons why I think it's a good thing.

1) The very fact that gay marriage has a hegemony has pushed the queer agenda further into politics, the media and mainstream culture.
 It's created something to rally around. To ( Read more... )

"The problematic circularity of a feminist inquiry into gender is underscored by the presence of positions which, on the one hand, presume that gender is a secondary characteristic of persons and those which on the other hand, argue that the very notion of the person, positioned within language as a "subject", is a masculinist construction and ( Read more... )

When I was choosing subjects this semester, I knowingly smiled as I clicked on MATH1011: Life Sciences Calculus. Everyone knows that "life sciences" are the lamest types of sciences. If you can use it in life, then it's probably pretty pedestrian. And so having done *EXTENSION* maths for the HSC, my knowledge had far surpassed that which is useful ( Read more... )