It’s been over a year. Towards the middle of 2007 I became unsure what image and content this blog was trying to put forward, so I put up a basic placeholder with this short bio: Benjamin Hourigan is the editor at the Centre for Independent Studies, a libertarian think-tank based in Sydney. He has previously [...]
A little while ago Mel posted a link to an “article,”:http://www.nerve.com/personalessays/calhoun/mcsweeneys/ along with “some of her own musings”:http://wildyoungunderwhimsy.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_wildyoungunderwhimsy_archive.html (scroll down and look for February 16) expressing distaste for the emotionally arid cleverness of “McSweeney’s”:http://www.mcsweeneys.net/. Both this post and “Christian’s”:http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~Mccrea/archives/2005/02/index.html (again, no permalink, look for February 18), mentioning it, also link to the fictional exploits of [...]
If there’s anyone who wasn’t quite sure if I’m a computer geek, this is the post to prove it… Ever since I went to the Digital Arts and Culture conference at RMIT in 2003, where I presented “this paper”:http://www.fineartforum.org/Backissues/Vol_17/faf_v17_n08/reviews/hourigan.html, (many of the political arguments of which I now thoroughly disagree with), and where every second [...]
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Ben Hourigan is an indie novelist, the author of Kiss Me, Genius Boy (2011). He is also the manager of digital operations at a Melbourne design publisher, a freelance writer and editor, and the founder of ebook label hourigan.co.
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