Background for this post is here, rest of the series is here. SPACE (Image: http://bizarro.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/172/2014/02/bz-strip-02-20-14.jpg) CONCEPT: SPACE At once the container of everyday life (i.e. where we live) and an active agent in it (a social-acting force). An incredibly wide-reaching term, with complex and even contradictory points of reference, it can refer to either the…More
Author Archives: Angela
Angela J Williams, PhD, is a writer, illustrator and story teller from Wollongong, Australia.
She is the author of Snakes and Ladders: a memoir and host of the Deboning Power Podcast.
A writer, thinker and yeller, Angela Williams is mildly notorious for seeing problems and pointing them out. She’s tussled with Fred Nile in the Sydney Morning Herald, taken academia to task in the Guardian’s Anonymous Academic, gone to Crikey about the treatment of mentally ill women in prison, and most recently blown the whistle on dangerous risks in her (former) charity workplace. Angela does one thing really well – find problems and yell about them.
CACS Case studies: Affect
Background for this post is here, rest of the series is here. AFFECT BEFORE CLASS READ: Loh, Maria 2011, ‘Outscreaming the Laocoön: Sensation, Special Affects, and the Moving Image’, Oxford Art Journal, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 393-414. CONCEPT: AFFECT That which the body and mind suffers (in the classical philosophical sense), which means simply…More
CACS Case studies: Body
Background for this post is here, rest of the series is here. CONCEPT BODY: Critical theory’s interest in the body (usually, though not exclusively, taken to mean the human body) is quite diverse and dates back to French philosopher René Descartes’ s famous splitting of the mind from the body. With the exception of Baruch…More
CACS Case studies: Aboriginality
Background for this post is here, rest of the series is here. ABORIGINALITY In this case study we look at concepts of power, race and identity from an indigenous perspective. We look at the social and cultural conditions for the establishment and critique of power both historically and in Australia today. We focus in particular…More
CACS Case studies: Representation
Background for this post is here, rest of the series is here. REPRESENTATION (Image: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/oct/02/portrait-of-an-enigma-diego-velazquez-las-meninas) CONCEPT: REPRESENTATION The image of an idea or thing. At its most basic, representation means two things: (i) creating something that can stand for another thing—this is the sense in which a metaphor, to give only one example, is a…More
CACS Case studies: Myth
Background for this post is here, rest of the series is here. MYTH (Image: http://www.djspooky.com/photos/djspooky_rebirth.html) This week we extend our discussion of Benjamin to think about the way contemporary art remixes the old and new. We think about how remix functions in globalised contemporary digital and social media contexts. We ask what kinds of myths…More
Case study blurbs: thinking about creativity within a interdisciplinary framework
Spider web by spider on caffeine (http://www.trinity.edu/jdunn/spiderdrugs.htm) I’ve been teaching a first year theory subject with Dr Susan Ballard for a few years called Contemporary Creative Practice, we call is CACS (the subject code). It’s a compulsory core subject, for all creative arts students at University of Wollongong and aims to give a strong foundation…More
Joining a writing group
This Saturday I’m going to my first meeting of the Northern Beaches Writers’ Group. It feels like a strange time to be joining a writers’ group, just as I’m at the end of a book, but I’m glad I’ve taken the leap and I’m glad I’m doing it now. I’m looking forward to looking at…More
Angela J Williams 
