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The Da Vinci Code (2003)

Dan Brown (2003). The Da Vinci Code. New York: Anchor. My rating: ** The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown What irritated me about this book was not so much the much fêted hilariously bad writing style, nor the erratic pacing which meant nothing much happened until the middle of this lengthy tome, but the presentation of [...]

Foucault and the neoliberal art of government

Posted on my site michel-foucault.com The art of government … which has now become the program of most governments in capitalist countries, absolutely does not seek the constitution of … [a] standardizing, mass society of consumption and spectacle, etcetera… It involves, on the [...]

Professors as Writers (1990)

Robert Boice, Professors as Writers. A Self-Help Guide to Productive Writing, Stillwater: New Forums Press, 1990. My rating: ***** Professors As Writers by Robert Boice I have read quite a few books on writer’s block and Robert Boice’s work on this subject is by far the most helpful and practical. Even if this particular book is [...]

The Singing Detective (2007)

Glen Creeber, The Singing Detective, London: BFI TV Classics, 2007. My rating: *** The Singing Detective by Glen Creeber Television doesn’t always age well, but Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective more than twenty years later is still just as riveting and confronting. I saw the series when it originally aired in 1986 and was completely fascinated, even [...]

Star Trek (2008)

Ina Rae Hark, Star Trek. London: BFI publishing, 2008. My rating: *** Star Trek by Ina Rae Hark The author of this book, Ina Rae Hark is a long-standing fan of the series, dating back to the original 1960s series. She is currently professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Carolina. In [...]
 

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About me
I am a lecturer in the School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education, at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld, Australia. I teach philosophy, literary theory, film studies, creative writing, cultural studies and sociology to education students.
Research interests
Michel Foucault, French theory and intellectual history since 1945, cult film and TV (science fiction, fantasy and other genre), fan communities, web media studies. I run a major website on Foucault, have published two books on his work and edited another, and was a founding editor of Foucault Studies.
Key theorists used
Michel Foucault
Website Address
http://www.michel-foucault.com
Publications

Books

Michel Foucault. London: Sage Publications, 2005. Core Cultural Theorists series.

Foucault: Historian or Philosopher? London: Macmillan, 1989, 188 pp. Reprinted in paperback 1993.


Edited books

Taught Bodies, Clare O'Farrell, Daphne Meadmore, Erica McWilliam, Colin Symes (Eds.) New York: Peter Lang, 2000.

Foucault: The Legacy, Edited with introduction, Brisbane: QUT, 1997. 73 chapters, 792pp. Now available on CD-ROM


Chapters

'Celluloid Bodies: Images of Intellectuals in Film'. In Clare O'Farrell, Daphne Meadmore, Erica McWilliam, Colin Symes (Eds.) Taught Bodies, NewYork: Peter Lang, 2000.

Postmodernism for the Uninitiated. In Daphne Meamore, Bruce Burnett, Peter O'Brien (eds) Understanding Education: Contexts and Agendas for the New Millennium, Sydney: Prentice Hall, 1999, pp. 11-17.

Brian Nelson and Clare O'Farrell, 'Introduction', in Brian Nelson (ed.) Forms of Commitment: Intellectuals in Contemporary France, Melbourne, Monash Romance Studies, 1995, pp. 1-14.

'Pierre Bourdieu: Sociology as a World Vision', in Kevin D.S. Murray (ed.) The Judgement of Paris, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992.


Articles

Foucault and Post Modernism. The Sydney Papers 18, no. 3-4, (2006), 182-194.

'Media Republics: Intellectuals Strike Back', Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, 11, 2 (1997), pp. 54-60.

'Restoring the Scholarly Balance' Comment, Campus Review, Jan 18-24, 1996, p.8.


Translations

Michel Foucault, The Crisis of Medicine or the Crisis of Antimedicine? Translated by Edgar C. Knowlton, Jr., William J. King and Clare O'Farrell, Foucault Studies, No 1, December 2004, pp. 5-19.

My other websites

Refracted Inputs My blog which offers completely biased reviews of things I am reading and viewing as well as short commentaries on Foucault.
Walken Works My review site on the actor Christopher Walken's work. Also includes pages on selected science fiction TV series.

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At 2:00am on August 2, 2009, luke brandt said…
thank you for your kind welcome, and a way cool SI group. As for dark matter, no one (AFAIK) understands it yet so we need to think about it continually. The same applies to American politics and journalism but for entirely different reasons (see e.g. Greenwald).

Wishing you a pleasant weekend
At 7:13pm on June 30, 2009, Richard Stamp said…
Hi Clare - Thanks for the recommendation. In fact, it was the Ranciere and education subgroup that brought me to the AARE set-up. Other things have simply got in the way, but I see David's reference to the group below so I'll get in contact. Like him, perhaps, I came across The Ignorant Schoolmaster as some kind of forgotten classic, which cuts across more familiar debates in Bourdieu and Foucault, in particular. - Thanks again, Richard
At 6:34pm on April 6, 2009, David McInerney said…
I read the Rancière book back in 2005 when I was doing the Grad Dip Ed, and it informed our group project for Ed Psych B to some extent. I figure that we might as well have a space here to discuss it, because it is a very interesting text, although like most of his work I find it raises a lot of questions but provides very little in the way of possible answers.
At 10:23pm on April 5, 2009, David McInerney said…
Hi Clare

I just set up a group for discussion of Jacques Rancière's work on education (also his book on history, which seems to me to be closely related). I thought it might be interesting for people here. Whether anyone will join or speak on it I don't know! Anyway the facility is there, and people only have to ask me if they want to join. I made it moderated because that way every update to the group doesn't appear on the RSS feed etc.
 
 

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