June wrap 🆙 feijoas; reflections on campus; filming MA in Comms in my sunny 🌞 office; mum’s visit

'You’re invited to celebrate 50 years of @3crmelbourne.bsky.social. We are Melbourne’s radical radio station, giving voice to those denied a voice in mainstream media since 1976.' *Collingwood Town Hall, Saturday 4 July, 2026, 11am-4pm* free entry, stalls, activities, food, music +++

Let’s share academic book 📕 shelfies. I’m going to share a #vintage #academic paperback every day for July! Starting with Adorno by the illustrious Martin Jay 👁️ I love this Fontana series with modernist cover designs. #FrankfurtSchool #Adorno #Shelfie

Gearing up to teach CRIME MEDIA this sem. This year we are offering to criminology majors too. It’s a film course with streamed media, doco and news included. I ask: which concepts / theory wld YOU teach & which films wld you screen? (Then I’ll tell you what I teach ;-) ) 🍿 👮

Some BTS / behind the scenes from our MComms shoot 🎥 today. Paola Voci will be teaching GLOBAL AUDIENCES. She is fluent in English, mandarin (and Italian!) 🇮🇹 🇨🇳

Finally had a tweet / X Post go ‘viral’. About lacan? Metal? Union politics? No. A meme poking fun at Jehovah’s Witnesses. I replied to a thread to share a fav meme. I do love this meme tho.

June photos 📸 new hair; Otepoti mornings; Art NZ (article on Gian Manik); BTS of MComms shoot 💇‍♀️ 🖼️ 🌄 🎦

APRIL’S HARVEST accumulation by @memoryindex.bsky.social for ACMe is now live … open.substack.com/pub/acmesmok...

This month’s ACMe accumulation stack is written by @brettdn.bsky.social Moving from Melania, Iran, Brett weaves in Jäger’s hyperpolitics as a diagnostic and critique of hegemonic power without a public. @versobooks.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/acmesmok...

In case you’re also a fan of pansies and violas here are a few more. Dopamine from pansies= pansamine ✔️🌿

What does grindcore have to do with class politics and Australian PM’s Keating’s 1990s cultural cosmopolitanism? Or maybe you just want to read about the c word? 🤷🏻‍♀️ my book on BLOOD DUSTER is available for pre order from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/au/blood-dus...

Now this looks GOOD!

A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!

WELCOME TO JANKSPACE, BABES Screening + Q&A w filmmakers @DanielFelstead & Jenn Leung 17 March 10am NZT (8am AEST) BURNS 4 @otago or zoom Rego here: forms.gle/eJzdb6K3RYsqMo… Ping @ojutel.bsky.social @brettdn.bsky.social @jennleung.bsky.social

Auckland sojourn … great to see my sis and Chris,and toast Gian’s exhibition at Gus Fisher 🖼️ gallery! Watch this space for an ArtNZ review soon x

On Epstein and politics. Some are saying that to reduce the sex trafficking and sex trafficking of girls to ‘politics’ and ‘scandal’ erases the victimhood of the redacted girls. I disagree. Patriarchy is political. This ‘scandal’ misses the mark with outrage abt princes, who’s who 1/2

YUGE if true.

i will never stop thinking about the intersection of epstein and the shitty media men list

I need answers. Why in NZ on a day which is 13 degrees and raining and windy, do cafes have multiple doors open? Is this a Dunedin thing? Whole of country? I’ve been told it’s to ‘ventilate the kitchen’. Dont kitchens have extractor fans? People sit in cafes in coats and puffers. #NewZealand #Kiwi

Best of Bogangar and surrounds 2025-6 Me w mum and dad at ‘scales’ 🐠 restaurant Bogangar beach Aunties & @virginiaov.bsky.social Dad and ‘mural project’ in Byron

Liking this ‘convenience criticism’ framing. Books that link AI to fascism becoming a cottage industry: www.structural-integrity.eu/convenience-... @sean-phelan.bsky.social @ojutel.bsky.social @rosieoverell.bsky.social

"Ohio" (1971) - written by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970. Performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. 🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9...

Some spring blooms to share! Plus a new vase / vessel in image 2. Pansies, poppies, flax, red roses, buttercups, hollyhocks …

A riff critiquing AI in Ed Tech, and ‘Cogniti’ in particular AI stifles desire, destroys the social link and operates on a death drive logic MORE-DEMAND-MORE! art work by :mentalKLINIK ‘LUNATIC POETS’ 2025 #AI #Critique #Lacan #EdTech tinyurl.com/58hfe7nt

It’s a team effort working with the Aotearoa Comms & Media collective we also produced this statement: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

August memories! Congrats to Frankie & Deniz on submitting their PhDs🎓🎓! F wrote on gay men’s cinema 🎦 & queer structures of feeling; M on Marcuse & algorithmic desire💓; Jameson 📕from op shop 50c; 🤘🏻rocking out w 2nd year 🎥 film students; Ōtepōti sunshine 🌞

Some spring flowers 🌹 details xx

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

OPINION: On her new album, Lorde creates pop at its purest — performative, playful and alive to paradox ⬇️

May-hem memories Palestine 🇵🇸 in queen’s gardens; 🍂 autumn on campus; colleague and postgrads

Boosting! Ping @ojutel.bsky.social

Join in the discussion of ADOLESCENCE 13th May 3-4pm NZT / 1-2pm AEST Zoom rego: forms.gle/nRnEyZU8vBBx...

USA 🇺🇸 LACK conference trip 1/ Sign: MASSAGE Revolution Fantasy Frat house at Otterbein Columbus, OH art gallery

The new @netflix.com on #CharlesManson MK ultra and CIA is good … seeing shifts in the ‘Netflix true crime’ genre - but as Seltzer wrote so many years ago … the emph on ‘mediation’ of ‘true’ crime persists - tapes; headlines; archival footage etc but now also 1/2 #Manson #genre #TrueCrime

February fotos 📸 Fleurs in Otepoti 💐 Something happened (pink shoes) 💗 The grim faces of the #Fatima visionaries 🇵🇹 Blood duster brutality 🤘🏻

Issues at work? Join us at TEUsday cafe | korero & coffee 10-11am Staff Club ☕️ 🔨 🖥️ 💬 @nzctu.bsky.social

January snaps 🫰🏻 Bon RIP 🪦 Northern NSW; fleurs 💐 in NZ; a new vessel 🐭 🥛

Happy memories of #Bogangar Summer holiday with family 🌞 and 🌊 #Summer

Happy New Year #Doraemon #CatLikeRobotFromTheFuture #2025

Getting ready to arrange some fleurs #FlowerSky #Flowers #Summer

Our eclectic Christmas setup in Bogangar, including an aromatic wreath made by me … basil flowers; rosemary; olive leaves; lemongrass and banksia! Nativity and tree devs ably assisted by @virginiaov.bsky.social & @christopherlghill.bsky.social #AustraliaChristmas #BOGANgar What’s your set up?

Some plants I love … and had to give away - in Singapore 🇸🇬 🪴 I had a beautiful, big sunny living room opening onto a huge balcony …

New article by comrade Brett just published in Continuum ~ on far right group Australian League of Rights & the Voice referendum. Using Laclau & Mouffe #OpenAccess #EmptySignifier #PostStructuralistDiscourseAnysis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

For my #Metal followers … I’m currently writing a book abt Melbourne grindcore band Bloodduster and their debut Fisting the Dead 💀 ~ angles? There’s a chapter on the word ‘cunt’; ‘stoopid’ music in keating’s clever country … 🤔

Hey folks! If you missed the Ruthless Criticism of Capitalism and AI event with @jathansadowski.com, you can still catch the recording ♥️

Post the LAST sentence of your last article: To seize what anxiety offers, to hear through the content, towards the humming remainder, which only fissures over the lack, and break that open, only then can we truly pose a reckoning to patriarchy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I also have a few special plants 🌱 at work - they keep me 😀 💞 who else has office plants? #Plants #OfficePlants #HousePlants

Want to hear more from @jathansadowski.com ahead of THE RUTHLESS CRITIQUE OF AI IN THE ACADEMY? Check out the pod linked in the post below! #ThisMachineKills Rego to join in the debate with @jathansadowski.com 2/12 Wellington 4/12 Dunedin 6/12 Auckland tinyurl.com/mrxrc66m @ojutel.bsky.social