Paul Emerson Teusner has emailed to let me know that Dr Heidi Campbell is going to be in town in October, and that Paul’s organising a dinner with Heidi in Fitzroy, for people interested in a conversation about religion, culture and media. I think it will be an amazing opportunity… For those of you [like…
Unlike the hand forgeries which preceded lithography, photography, film and audio recording, [Walter] Benjamin argues that the nineteenth and twentieth centuries placed art in an era of mechanical reproduction, which necessarily changes our perception of art itself. In particular, Benjamin argues that the “aura” of an original, “the essence of all that is transmissible from…
we went down to federation square this morning to watch the federal government’s apology to indigenous people on the big screen. last time i was at fed square with a group this size was when we were protesting some of the policies of the last government. it was unbelievably good to be listening to a…
i’m in the midst of writing proposals and rationales… i always think it’s going to be mindnumbing work, but it never is. it’s by doing this kind of thing that the missing connections always come together in my mind. until the last few weeks, the majority of people who got in contact with me were…
this is a pdf of the keynote presentation i used in the alt worship workshop over the last few days at wisdom’s feast. it’s a 6mb file and there are a few things that won’t make sense from the pdf – images that turned into movies, etc. altworship_wisdomsfeast.pdf it also doesn’t have explanatory notes –…
i think i’ve always assumed that it’s people in the church who have the sacred stories to tell. People come to church when they’re “searching”, and we show them (walk with them, point the way) to where they might find salvation (in its broadest, most encompassing terms). no doubt that’s true for many people ……
