Timothy N Laurie
Timothy Laurie is a Senior Lecturer and Higher Degree Research Coordinator in the School of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney. His core research interests include cultural theory, gender and sexuality studies, studies in popular culture, and philosophy.
Timothy is currently working on three broad research projects.
First, he is engaged in research on Australian boys and contemporary cinema, as part of his role as a Chief Investigator on the Australia Research Council grant "Australian Boys: Beyond the Boy Problem" (2021-2024). This work considers the ways that figures of youth and masculinity are taken up and transformed to produce complex meanings around class, race, and nationhood in Australian public culture.
Second, Timothy has an ongoing research collaboration around feminist philosophy and queer theory with Associate Professor Hannah Stark (University of Tasmania). They have co-authored the book The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures (Palgrave, 2021), which interrogates ethical and political understandings of love in the wider context of feminist and queer arguments around coupledom, marriage equality, and family diversity.
Third, Timothy has an ongoing research project around doctoral education and supervision practices with Dr. Liam Grealy (University of Sydney/Menzies - School of Health Research). They have published research on trust, care, disciplinarity, and the use of educational metrics for journals such as Higher Education Research & Development and Pedagogy, Culture & Society, and for the edited collection Cultural Studies in the Classroom (Palgrave, 2019).
Timothy also engages in extensive editorial work in cultural studies. Timothy has been a Managing Editor for Q1 Cultural Studies journal Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies since 2017. He has also co-edited Unsettled Voices: Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era (Routledge, 2021) with Tanja Dreher and Michael Griffiths, a collection that identifies the limitations and the consequences of free speech debates in contemporary political arenas, and explores possibilities for combating racism within and against dominant liberal political frameworks. Timothy has also co-edited Special Issues for Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities and Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy.
In the cultural studies research community, Timothy is also the regional representative for Australia and New Zealand on the Board of the Association for Cultural Studies, and a director for Hunar Symposia, which focuses on art practices that respond to State violence, forced migration, and the ongoing effects of colonisation.
Address: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Timothy is currently working on three broad research projects.
First, he is engaged in research on Australian boys and contemporary cinema, as part of his role as a Chief Investigator on the Australia Research Council grant "Australian Boys: Beyond the Boy Problem" (2021-2024). This work considers the ways that figures of youth and masculinity are taken up and transformed to produce complex meanings around class, race, and nationhood in Australian public culture.
Second, Timothy has an ongoing research collaboration around feminist philosophy and queer theory with Associate Professor Hannah Stark (University of Tasmania). They have co-authored the book The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures (Palgrave, 2021), which interrogates ethical and political understandings of love in the wider context of feminist and queer arguments around coupledom, marriage equality, and family diversity.
Third, Timothy has an ongoing research project around doctoral education and supervision practices with Dr. Liam Grealy (University of Sydney/Menzies - School of Health Research). They have published research on trust, care, disciplinarity, and the use of educational metrics for journals such as Higher Education Research & Development and Pedagogy, Culture & Society, and for the edited collection Cultural Studies in the Classroom (Palgrave, 2019).
Timothy also engages in extensive editorial work in cultural studies. Timothy has been a Managing Editor for Q1 Cultural Studies journal Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies since 2017. He has also co-edited Unsettled Voices: Beyond Free Speech in the Late Liberal Era (Routledge, 2021) with Tanja Dreher and Michael Griffiths, a collection that identifies the limitations and the consequences of free speech debates in contemporary political arenas, and explores possibilities for combating racism within and against dominant liberal political frameworks. Timothy has also co-edited Special Issues for Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities and Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy.
In the cultural studies research community, Timothy is also the regional representative for Australia and New Zealand on the Board of the Association for Cultural Studies, and a director for Hunar Symposia, which focuses on art practices that respond to State violence, forced migration, and the ongoing effects of colonisation.
Address: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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supervision meetings across multiple Australian universities, this article examines the entanglements of scholarly discourse, interpersonal conviviality, and curiosity within supervision relationships. To understand this, we adopt a ‘post-critical’ approach to doctoral training and borrow the concept of ‘tacit knowledge’ to consider the role of trust, conviviality, and informal ‘know-how’ in the development of formalised expertise. Analysis of exchanges within supervision meetings encourages the consideration of care as a relational structure linked to practices of curiosity and the sharing of tacit knowledge. We argue that although institutional pressures may continue to reshape doctoral candidatures in the neoliberal university, supervision meetings offer important sites for developing doctoral candidates’ intellectual self-trust, including through the expression of curiosity by their supervisors.
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The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures explores stories about love that recuperate a vision of intimate life as a resource for creating bonds beyond heterosexual coupledom. This book offers a variety of ethical frames through which to understand changing definitions of love, intimacy, and interdependency in the context of struggles for marriage equality and the increasing recognition of post-nuclear forms of kinship and care. It commits to these post-nuclear arrangements, while pushing beyond the false choice between a politics of collective action and the celebration of deeply personal and incommunicable pleasures. In exploring the vicissitudes of love across contemporary philosophy, politics, film, new media, and literature, The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures develops an original post-sentimental concept of love as a way to explain emergent intimacies and affiliations beyond the binary couple.
used concept of “hegemonic masculinity,” and scrutinises a series of specialised metaphors around hegemony – strategies, positions, goals – that present masculinity as an effect of competitive communion between men. Having identified key tensions in the explanatory model of hegemonic masculinity, the essay then turns towards the
analysis of sense and language outlined in Gilles Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense (1969). Deleuze’s notions of “singularity” and “event” are reworked to support a pragmatic account of
how masculinity studies can engage tense relationships between observation, description and representation, an engagement that remains salient for developing the ethical scope of gender studies more broadly.
supervision meetings across multiple Australian universities, this article examines the entanglements of scholarly discourse, interpersonal conviviality, and curiosity within supervision relationships. To understand this, we adopt a ‘post-critical’ approach to doctoral training and borrow the concept of ‘tacit knowledge’ to consider the role of trust, conviviality, and informal ‘know-how’ in the development of formalised expertise. Analysis of exchanges within supervision meetings encourages the consideration of care as a relational structure linked to practices of curiosity and the sharing of tacit knowledge. We argue that although institutional pressures may continue to reshape doctoral candidatures in the neoliberal university, supervision meetings offer important sites for developing doctoral candidates’ intellectual self-trust, including through the expression of curiosity by their supervisors.
Book blurb:
The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures explores stories about love that recuperate a vision of intimate life as a resource for creating bonds beyond heterosexual coupledom. This book offers a variety of ethical frames through which to understand changing definitions of love, intimacy, and interdependency in the context of struggles for marriage equality and the increasing recognition of post-nuclear forms of kinship and care. It commits to these post-nuclear arrangements, while pushing beyond the false choice between a politics of collective action and the celebration of deeply personal and incommunicable pleasures. In exploring the vicissitudes of love across contemporary philosophy, politics, film, new media, and literature, The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures develops an original post-sentimental concept of love as a way to explain emergent intimacies and affiliations beyond the binary couple.
used concept of “hegemonic masculinity,” and scrutinises a series of specialised metaphors around hegemony – strategies, positions, goals – that present masculinity as an effect of competitive communion between men. Having identified key tensions in the explanatory model of hegemonic masculinity, the essay then turns towards the
analysis of sense and language outlined in Gilles Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense (1969). Deleuze’s notions of “singularity” and “event” are reworked to support a pragmatic account of
how masculinity studies can engage tense relationships between observation, description and representation, an engagement that remains salient for developing the ethical scope of gender studies more broadly.
of genre taxonomies, ranging from the broad (pop, rock, jazz) to the highly specific (the Gothenburg sound, Hi-NRG, Krautrock). Since the early 1980s, genre has graduated from being a subset of popular music studies to being an almost ubiquitous framework for constituting and evaluating musical research objects. One rarely has to make a general case for genre, so long as one can tell persuasive stories about what genres mean in cultural context: metal as transgressive, hip hop as community building, punk as counter hegemonic, and so on. Jennifer Lena’s Banding Together, Graham St John’s Global Tribe and Michelle Phillipov’s Death Metal and Music Criticism each employ genre as a principle of selection and hence raise questions about the strengths and limitations of genre criticism as a heuristic method in popular music studies.
reads like a captain’s log of what stressed out, fed up, self-sacrificing white men are up to on America’s screens...
This essay considers the utopianism of post-structuralist philosopher Gilles Deleuze alongside Afrofuturism, a milieu including both artistic and academic work exploring futurity, technological innovation and speculative imaginaries in the Afrodiaspora. Reflecting on the relationship between theoretical work and political practice, it considers two fictional authors associated with Afrofuturism: Ralph Ellison, who displays an ambivalence towards both creative individualism and utopian imaginaries, and Octavia E. Butler, whose short story “Speech Sounds” re-asserts the importance of communication, conversation and human relationships despite, or precisely because of, societal breakdown and alienation.