About

My name is Teodor Mitew, and this is my list of flaneur musings, in no particular order, on no particular topic. Like Scaramouche, I was born with the feeling that the world is mad, much helped by the fact my place of birth was Bulgaria. I lived through and remember well communism, witnessed the birth of ‘what comes after’, and took as much as I could from the tuition.  I have far too many interests, and far too little time to indulge them all.

Intellectually, my background is in history, philosophy, political economics, and computer studies. I got my Master of Arts degree in 2000, in the area of philosophy of history, from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. My interest in economics on the other hand was the result of attending the American Institute on Political and Economic Systems in Prague in 2001. After a sojourn in the dull corporate universe during which I managed to get a Diploma in Computer Studies, I returned to academy to work on a doctoral thesis in the vague area of internet research.

I received my PhD in 2008 from Curtin University of Technology, with a thesis applying actor network theory to the formation of online publics. In the thesis I used case-studies ranging from US drones deployed in Iraq, through social rituals in online worlds such as the World of Warcraft, to new media mapping projects, online activism, baroque paintings, and the work of Gabriel Tarde and Michel Serres. Currently I am a lecturer in digital media at the University of Wollongong, where I teach subjects across the digital humanities. As a researcher I am interested in ambient socio-digital systems and the internet of things.

As a flaneur I am all over the place, as is only proper. I voraciously read a chaotic range of writings. I like to muse on austrian economic theory, contrarian investment, Russian literature, football tactics, and various kinds of Bavarian and Belgian beer. I enjoy snapping pictures while not necessarily calling that photography. I am a football fan supporting FC Barcelona since 1992. I practice barefoot running and the paleo diet.

I am also happily married and recently became the father of a wonderful boy. I live in Wollongong, New South Wales, midway between the beach and a mountain.