Browse: Home / Writers & Writing
By tigtog on February 1, 2012
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by Epic Rap Battles of History #12 – Dr Seuss VS Shakespeare. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Levity | Tagged Video, whimsy, Writers & Writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 11, 2009
In a second piece of good news to come from the Federal government today, the Productivity Commission’s mooted changes to the import regime for books have not been accepted. The argument about consumer benefit was always spurious – the purported [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Markets | Tagged australian literature, Australian writers, book retailers, Books, Writers & Writing, consumers, craig emerson, cultural policy, cultural production, free trade agreement, Guy Rundle, ideology, Kim Carr, libraries, literary production, market concentration, neo-liberalism, parallel importation, productivity commission, publishing, writers, Writers & Writing, writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 22, 2009
Australia Post, which has been one of the many distributors for the excellent series of orange Popular Penguins, last week decreed that three titles could not be sold through their outlets – Anais Nin’s Delta of Venus, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Politics, Sexuality | Tagged Australia Post, banned books, Books, Writers & Writing, censorship, Delta of Venus, History of Sexuality, Jessica Au, Lolita, Meanjin, michel foucault, Popular Penguins, Spike, Vladimir Nabokov, Writers & Writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 29, 2009
I’m speaking on the 11th of August at an event organised by the Queensland Writers Centre: Books in the Digital Age:The Future of Writing With the rapid changes in Australia’s writing and publishing industry, where will books fit in the [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Notices, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Books, Writers & Writing, cultural studies, digital culture, event, future of books, lecture, literacy, Mark Bahnisch, publishing, Queensland Writers Centre, QUT, QWC, reading, Sociology, Writers & Writing, writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 13, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/morgan.jpg" align=left The latest entry in an occasional series on speculative fiction – Distant Suns. A little while ago, I was having a friendly disagreement on Facebook about the merits of Bruce Sterling‘s science fiction, touching on his expertise [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Imperialism, Politics, Sociology, Technology, War | Tagged Altered Carbon, Book review, Books, Writers & Writing, Broken Angels, Bruce Sterling, consciousness, corporatism, cultural studies, cyberpunk, genre fiction, identity, John Pilger, literary studies, Noam Chomsky, noir, personality, Politics, Pulp Fiction, review, Richard K. Morgan, Robert Heinlein, science fiction, Sociology, speculative fiction, subjectivity, Takeshi Kovacs, transhumanism, War, Writers & Writing |
By Kim on February 8, 2009
The SFnal post of the year (so far) has to be Shannan Palma’s “How to know if you’re reading a bad book” at the Feminist SF Blog. Well worth reading! A couple of related posts – buying into the whole [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Feminism | Tagged Books, Writers & Writing, coins, criticism, cultural field, cultural studies, fantasy, feminist sf, I Ching, image, John Birmingham, literature, Philip K. Dick, photo, picture, Pierre Bourdieu, Sam Jordison, science fiction, sf, Shannan Palma, speculative fiction, Writers & Writing |
By Guest Poster on January 10, 2009
A while back, I wrote a series of posts on speculative fiction – Distant Suns. Commenter patrickg liked the posts and wanted to try his own hand at one. So I’m happy to host the first of his continuation of [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc | Tagged blogs, Book review, Books, Writers & Writing, cultural studies, fantasy, online games, popular culture, Robert E. Howard, speculative fiction, sword and sorcery, The Complete Chronicles of Conan, Writers & Writing, writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 6, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/2030886815_ed804cda53.jpg" Image of a PhD dissertation courtesy of raffyd at flickr – reproduced under a creative commons licence. My 2009 began in a very sober mode (if not mood) – today was the deadline for finishing the edit of [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Education, Life, Sociology | Tagged authors, Books, Writers & Writing, candidature, dissertation, doctorate, higher degree, humanities, Latin tags, lingua latina, Mark Bahnisch, phd, PhD student, QUT, research student, social science, Sociology, submission, theses, thesis, Virgil, Writers & Writing, writing |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 15, 2008
As those folks who are my friends on Facebook are no doubt aware, I successfully defended my PhD thesis at my final seminar on Thursday in the Humanities Program at QUT. That’s a milestone I’m really happy to have reached, [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Education, Life, Sociology, The Web | Tagged book reviews, Books, Writers & Writing, dissertation, fantasy, holiday reading, humanities, locus, phd, QUT, reading, science fiction, seminar, sf blogosphere, Sociology, speculative fiction, thesis, viva, Writers & Writing, zines |
Recent Comments