First Post

 Hello all,

In a period of mental exhaustion in between working on a chapter for my PhD thesis and scrutinising an academic journal's style guide, it came to my attention that if I were to keep up this whole academic thing I would need to give myself an opportunity to write that wasn't tied directly to my work. Even though I didn't have the energy to keep going with the tasks directly in front of me, I still had thoughts that I wanted to work through. The traditional targets of these barrages, people in my general vicinity and students, are probably not the best target for some of the things I want to talk about, and I find the short form nature of Instagram and Twitter to be frustrating given my tendency to write in run on sentences. 

Thus this blog emerged from the ether as a place to store observations on cultural studies without worrying about whether or not it will be funded or published. I'm not sure how often I'll post here, but I will lay out a brief statement of purpose here to hopefully provide some structure for what is to follow (if anything).

This is going to be a blog on cultural studies from a Poststructuralist and Marxist perspective, a great deal of the writing will be on film and screen studies, but that doesn't preclude other topics. I'm probably not going to get too involved in the nitty gritty of politicians and their world; firstly in case this ever does get associated with me I wouldn't like to cause some professional scandal, and secondly I find that world of online discourse painful to interact with and this is supposed to be a somewhat relaxing project for me.

I should probably think of some sort of sign off to end posts with.

Bye.