Richard Evans, a PhD research who I co-supervise with Michael Temple, has launched a great new website. Richard is a film and media researcher whose work joins philosophy, recent cultural geography and film theory in order to explore the materiality of landscape, and especially its connections with national identity. More information is available on the … Continue Reading
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Big website update over at Conditions of Mediation
Today Tim Markham and I have comprehensively updated the website for the ICA preconference we are co-organizing, titled Conditions of Mediation: Phenomenological Approaches to Media, Technology and Communication. Amongst the new information added is: * A provisional conference programme, including abstracts * Biographical details of all presenters and keynote speakers * Complete instructions on how … Continue Reading
Good blog post on my BISR seminar
The great interns at BISR have written an excellent post on my seminar on ‘the networked academic’ which I think captures the event really well, in terms of content as well as the audience’s contributions (which I regret not allowing more time for at the end). One small correction – where I was referring to … Continue Reading
Doreen Massey interview with Nigel Warburton
A number of peeps have already shared this: spatial theorist Doreen Massey speaks with Nigel Warburton, of Philosophy Bites fame, on spatial theory and why it matters (of course). It’s part of Social Science Bites, a new-ish series made in association with Sage. Two other interviews caught my attention: one with Toby Miller on what … Continue Reading
New material from the Wittgenstein Archives
Wittgenstein heads out there might be interested to note that the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB) have made available a large numbers of papers and audio-visual materal (approximately 600 items in all) from the Kirchberg International Wittgenstein Symposia from the years 2001-2010, as well as from the Wittgenstein Archives publications series. The … Continue Reading
Interviews and more at Figure/Ground
I’ve just noticed an interesting and relatively new website: Figure/Ground. Originally a personal academic blog, it has now evolved into a student-led collaborative project. The site aims to bring ‘philosophers, historians and critics of media, literature and technology into a conversation’ and to be ‘a virtual salon or coffee house, creating a democratic space for … Continue Reading
Barnett on the pragmatics of public attention
Over at his blog Pop Theory, Clive Barnett has written an excellent post working through some of his recent thinking on publicness. In the post, Clive questions the frequent tendency of debates about publicness to either explicitly or implicitly rely on a substantive and singular sense of ‘the Public’ being exposed or not exposed to … Continue Reading
New: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies
Just caught wind of what looks to be a pretty interesting new peer-reviewed journal, the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies which is set to launching its first issue in late-2013 (or 2014). The main remit of the journal seems to be articles giving balanced weight to, on the one hand, matters broadly related to urban … Continue Reading
Forthcoming at the Tate Modern: Peter Sloterdijk in conversation with Nigel Thrift
On Saturday 16 June 2012, 14.00–16.30, the Tate Modern will host a conversation between German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk and British geographer Nigel Thrift. For a while I’ve harboured a curiosity – still largely uninformed – about Sloterdijk’s ‘sphereology’ which is encapsulated by his three-volume magnum opus Spheres (taking in bubbles, globes and foam). I think, … Continue Reading
Harman’s politics of particularities?
I am a fairly regular reader of Graham Harman’s blog Object-Oriented Philosophy. Partly, of course, because his philosophy interests me, especially its implications for thinking about media, even though I certainly couldn’t claim to be doing object-oriented media research (there’s a lot of that, e.g. soon-to-be-former Birkbeck student Paul Caplan, and several of the contributions … Continue Reading