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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">***Apologies for cross-posting***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The Association for Cultural Studies (ACS) welcomes you to an upcoming talk in its <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Virtual Lecture Series</span></strong>, by <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Rosemary
Overell (University of Otago)</span></strong>, titled <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">‘Clever Cunts in the Creative Nation: Blood Duster’s Fisting the Dead in Keating’s Australia’</span></strong> (followed by a Q&A), which will take
place on <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">July 31st, 1 PM New Zealand Standard Time /NZST (GMT +12)</span></strong> (more information underneath).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">For more information on the Virtual Lecture Series and upcoming talks, please visit: <a href="https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/virtual-lecture-series/" target="_blank">https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/virtual-lecture-series/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Rosemary Overell (University of Otago) – Clever Cunts in the Creative Nation: Blood Duster’s
</span></strong><em><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Fisting the Dead</span></b></em><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> in Keating’s Australia</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">July 31st, 2025</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">1 PM New Zealand Standard Time /NZST (GMT +12)</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Abstract:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> Blood Duster’s 1993 debut,
<em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Fisting the Dead</span></em> is, in their words “pure evil filth” and the first Australasian ‘porno’ grindcore album. With tracks such as ‘Vulgar Taste of Rotten Cunt’ and ‘Raping the Elderly’
<em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Fisting</span></em> was deliberately offensive. Drawing on interviews with the band, this talk considers the subcultural work of causing offense in a sub-genre of extreme metal where offensiveness is a requirement.
Through a consideration of how Blood Duster mobilized humour and exaggeration I consider how
<em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Fisting</span></em> might work as a ‘stupid’ text in the, ostensibly, clever and creative Australian nation c. 1993. I ask: where does such sordid music sit within the context of the 1990s Australian iteration
of the ‘culture wars’ when a progressive government was pushing for a rise of cosmopolitan middle class creative production?
<em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Fisting</span></em> – in its vulgarity and contradictions – offers an insight in the subcultural politics of gender, taste and cultural value.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Bio: Rosemary Overell</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> is a Senior Lecturer in the Media, Film & Communication Programme at the University
of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. She is currently working on a book about Blood Duster’s
<em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Fisting the Dead</span></em> and has published extensively on the subcultural politics of extreme metal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">To register for this free event, please email:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:vls@cultstud.org">vls@cultstud.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Founded in 2002, the ACS aims at forming and promoting an effective worldwide community of cultural studies. It is intended as a tool for building strong interdisciplinary and transnational
connections by offering meaningful meeting places for the great diversity of committed scholars in this field. The Virtual Lecture Series, launched in May 2021, is an ongoing programme of online presentations by cutting-edge cultural studies theorists and
practitioners and serves as a way to keep establishing these connections when we are no longer able to easily meet in person. If you would like to support the association’s work by becoming a member (which enables us to continue to organise events like these),
you can do so here: <a href="http://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/membership/" target="_blank">https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/membership/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Upcoming VLS talks (more details TBA):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">August – Hsuan Hsu (University of California)<br>
September – Lisa Calvente (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)<br>
October – Camilla Mørk Røstvik (University of Aberdeen)<br>
November – Dianlin Huang (Communication University of China)<br>
December – Sarah Bufkin (University of Birmingham)<br>
January 2026 – Danzhou Li (Shenzhen University)<br>
February – Gilbert Caluya (Deakin University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">For more information, visit <a href="https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/virtual-lecture-series/" target="_blank">https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/virtual-lecture-series/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Archive of the previous talks <a href="https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/archive/" target="_blank">https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/archive/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Recordings are available on the Internet Archive <a href="https://archive.org/details/@association_for_cultural_studies_-_acs" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/@association_for_cultural_studies_-_acs</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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