Category Archives: smart arse

lectures

By txt | Published: December 17, 2004

Date: Fri Dec 17 10:47:58 2004 lectures Hi all, I am not sure if people have seen this but as part of the Federation Festival next month a number of international and national speakers will bee in Melbourne talking about topics as broad as globalisation, e-democracy and IT innovation. Some of the speakers include Edward [...]

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CHOGM

By txt | Published: July 12, 2001

Hi all…some radical thoughts on radicals, Yer, this following stuff stresses me to no ends. How about CHOGM and how the self-appointed ‘radicals’ are now planning to attack democratically elected governments of some of the World’s poorest countries. Sure, I was at S11, I backed the blockading of the WTO and I even supported the [...]

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CHOGM

By txt | Published: December 16, 1999

> have a fine day old Chaps, > Craig esq. > Commoner oh fuck off with that~) ben

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Milkbars

By txt | Published: September 5, 1999

I have placed my paper from the other night on the list for merciless interrogation… On one level my project is simply a history of milkbars in Australia in the post war period. But hopefully it’s a little bit more than this. At the moment I am in the process of selecting a number of [...]

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Paper

By txt | Published: August 23, 1999

I liked you paper and I wish that I had have heard you presenting it. I especially like the idea of embedding your arguments of masculinity and patriarchy within the culture in which we live. All too often the Gibsonesque drones look for an escape in that barren soul-less place called ‘cyberspace’. I saw one [...]

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Calling a cave VR

By txt | Published: August 4, 1999

>existence is based upon perception and >imagination,the receptive and active modes of our reality, intertwined >both consciously and subconsciously.. Relativism…very 60s. Gnosticism…Perhaps VR is the return of Jesus Christ. It is good to see religious studies back on the curriculum after a 50 year hiatus.

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Calling a cave VR

By txt | Published: August 3, 1999

So much for the medium telling us about the world in which we actually live…

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VR Definition

By txt | Published: July 29, 1999

I’m a big fan of Margaret Verthein’s The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace also (but you forgot to put quotation marks around her work cited).I think that the most pertinent questions to ask about any medium is what can its use tell us about the state of the culture and society in which we actually live [...]

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The 20th Century

By txt | Published: May 31, 1999

Date: Friday, November 19, 1999, 9:00:15 AM Subject: The 20th Century ===8<==============Original message text=============== At the end of the Twentieth Century there are a few stark realities. Australia’s Gross Domestic Product, that is every thing that the entire 20 million of us produce and have taken over two hundred years to reach, is worth obout [...]

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