Post-PhD, Limbo, and Closure.
After a 23-week wait, I finally passed my PhD two weeks ago. I told one of my besties I expected the afterglow to last a grand total of three days. In […]
On the value of public grieving, in 22 Tweets.
It is 0203hrs. I got up to take an hourlong […]
East Asian Influencer culture featured in Journalisten.no.
I was recently interviewed by the Norwegian Union of Journalists […]
Academia, mean girls, and politicking.
I’ve been trying to work out my politic as an academic and ethnographer. Some of these thoughts were formed during my serial-conferencing this year, because conferences are where young/junior/emergent academics 1) learn to […]
To be inside of you / work & tumble
Super psyched to be featured in Australian poetry publisher work & tumble‘s debut anthology. Support local? Buy this collection, submit your poetry, or follow w&t on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Textual intimacies, Faux Pas, and Truncative Devices.
My colleague Jenny Kennedy and I are starting a project […]
Premature nostalgia at my last conference as a postgrad.
It is 2341hrs. In theory, I am meant to be […]
Academica Dramatica x Packaging Intellect at Conference Presentations.
A series of brainfarts on why 20-min conference presentations to […]
Genealogies: Writing, Research, and Influencers
I recently published a journal article on micro-microcelebrity (pdf | […]
I want to be an academic.
Today, I’ve just wrapped up the first of a string of conferences to end off 2015. It’s 0218hrs. I’m on a squishy air mattress, half trying to edit a paper, half […]
November & December in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne.
Moshimoshi folks! I make my annual pilgrimage to the Eastern […]
Notes on Goffman’s theories of strategic interaction.
Some notes on Goffman’s theories of strategic interaction as I […]
Ode to email.
We use verbal phrases like “drop you an email” and “flick you an email” but really, emails are hard work, no? Length and content reciprocity are important, because who’d appreciate […]
Six first impressions of the US.
Phoenix is basically Western Australia with cacti. – As punishment for being Internet researchers we now have to dine in the desert. It’s like academic Survivor. – These are so […]
IR16 Fame and Microcelebrity on the Web
Moshimoshi Internet researchers of the world, We’re less than ten days to IR16. Are you ready? *throws confetti* I hope you’re as psyched as I am to be reuniting with […]
Translations, care, and paralanguages.
It is 0212hrs on a Tuesday morning in Singapore. I am typing away in a dark room in Chinatown while my two best friends are asleep beside me.
Of wordless wordsmiths.
“Inexpressible Love to write – Enticements, arguments, and impasses generated by the desire to “express” amorous feeling in a “creation” (particularly of writing). Two powerful myths have persuaded us that […]
I am collecting beautiful objects.
I am collecting beautiful objects. A pair of shoes. Some glasses. Telephone. Typewriter. They are made from wool and felt. With apparent stitches. Their delicate, unfinished appearance is friendly. And […]
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