Monthly Archives: September 2003

Humanities Computing

By Craig | Published: September 11, 2003

Humanities …to understand the legitimacy of a culture we need to investigate its relation to the archive, the site for the accumulation of records. Archive reason is a kind of reason which is concerned with detail, it constantly directs us away from the big generalisations, down to the particularity and singularity of the event. Increasingly [...]

Posted in history, media, politics, technology, web2.0 | Tagged Accumulation, Authorship, Brilliance, Electronic Scholarship, Everyday Life, External Documents, Humanities, Individualism, Inroads, Institutional Influence, Internal Documents, Internet 2, Legitimacy, Mike Featherstone, Particularity, Pertinent References, Records Archive, Roland Bathes, Singularity, Transcendence | 1 Comment

Fitzroy as a post-industrial frontier

By Craig | Published: September 11, 2003

Post-Industrial Frontiers The suburb of Fitzroy may not be one of the most significant nodes in the globalised world but in a similar way to other inner city districts of Melbourne and elsewhere it does have significant symbolic engagements with the world. Because it is Melbourne's oldest suburb (and thus richly historically layered) and because [...]

Posted in history, politics, web2.0 | Tagged Banking Education, Developing Economies, Fitzroy, Gentrification, Global Civil Society, Global Theatre, Globalisation Debate, Industrial Suburb, Information Economy, Inner Cities, Knowledge Production, Knowledge Workers, Massive Decline, New Economy, Post Industrialisation, Post Industrialism, Production Efficiencies, Three Decades, Tourism Telecommunications, Western Economies | 1 Comment

Gentrification in Fitzroy

By Craig | Published: September 11, 2003

Fitzroy is the archetype of a post-industrial Australian suburb. As Manual Castells, the Economic Geographer Kevin O'Connor, and a plethora of other authors argue, post-industrialism is the underlying catalyst for the present globalisation process.[1] Inner city Australian communities are experiencing rapid gentrification, closing factories, rising rents and property values, and the appropriation of the working [...]

Posted in history, politics, web2.0 | Tagged Advocate, Archetype, Australian Communities, Class Culture, Eclectic Mix, Economic Geographer, Egalitarianism, Ethnic Diversity, First Encounter, Fitzroy, Gentrification, Global Trend, Inner Cities, Local Real Estate, Manufacturing Industries, Marketing Tactics, Middle Suburbs, O Connor, Post Industrialism, Term Residents, Wealth Distribution, web2.0 | 2 Comments

What is globalisation?

By Craig | Published: September 11, 2003

What is globalisation? Thankfully, globalisation is not understood as being one thing. Different groups (depending on their social and geographical positioning) interpret it in various ways depending on their own political circumstances. The minimal working definitions of globalisation (or dare I say ‘globalism') circulate around the belief that complex interconnections are rapidly developing between societies, [...]

Posted in politics, web2.0 | Tagged Advocate, Collectives, Communication Technologies, Corporate Globalisation, Developed Countries, Economic Activity, Economic Practices, Global Economic Policy, Global Economy, Global Finance, Globalisation Debate, Globalism, Hawke Keating, Icts, Inevitability, Interconnections, Mantra, Policy Discussions, Political Circumstances, Post Industrialisation, web2.0, What Is Globalisation | Leave a comment

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Hi, my name is Dr Craig Bellamy and I am a digital humanities analyst for the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative, a consortium based at the University of Melbourne, however, the views expressed in this blog are the responsibility of the author alone.

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Monthly Archives: September 2003

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Gentrification in Fitzroy

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