The heat of approaching term time

September 26, 2010

I am on the precipice of my first full and proper new teaching year since joining Birkbeck College in January 2010, and I must say, I can feel the heat. But I have good reason for my senses to be a little on the edge – I am starting two (more or less) completely new [...]

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B.S. Construction

August 31, 2010

Construction hoarding – Manchester, I think.

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Advertising board palimpsest

August 23, 2010

Finsbury Park Tube Station, North London

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Give pix a chance

August 20, 2010

Looking back over eight months of writing this blog I can see that, well, there just aren’t as many posts as I imagined there would be when I got started. And although I’ll give it my all, honest, from this day forward, really I don’t expect the frequency to skyrocket anytime soon. So, to augment, [...]

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Thinking, if not yet doing, normativity

August 9, 2010

I’ve recently indulged – too often – in ending conference or seminar papers with earnest-yet-brief gestures towards the normative side of what I’m getting at. I think this is because the overall leaning of most of my work so far is fairly ontological, but I don’t really want it to be limited in that sort [...]

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Intensive media-cultural-urban Amsterdam summer course

May 14, 2010

For all you undergraduate and master’s students with interests in the intersections of media, cultural and urban studies, note that The University of Amsterdam is sending out a last call for applications for an intensive summer programme running from June 27 – July 10, 2010. The programme on Popular Culture and the City explores media, [...]

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Save Middlesex Philosophy on video

May 8, 2010

Save Middlesex Philosophy from Norman Hastings on Vimeo. As many will know, though for reasons I still cannot fully grasp, Middelsex University is closing its philosophy programmes, and with them, the Centre for Modern European Philosophy. This short video takes you to the scene of the crime as it were, and includes interviews with Christian [...]

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The political geography of web censorship desire

April 21, 2010

An interesting move by Google. No doubt still singed from its adventure in mainland China, the search engine has created a new tool that maps countries whose government has requested or taken legal action to remove content from either YouTube or Google search results, or otherwise have asked for details about its users. For removal [...]

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Making music with pong (and a mouse-guided theremin)

April 16, 2010

First of all, I know this is a terrible video. I only have myself and my mobile phone to blame. But I wanted to post this anyway. It’s from OpenNight #4, a night of FLOSS inspired electronic music and video from the people of OpenLab, which was held yesterday at the Fleapit in Hackney. The [...]

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Being in the world: coming soon to a theatre near you

March 24, 2010

This rather enticing trailer is for a film set to premiere in April, looking at how unique human capacities connect to how people find themselves in the world (i.e. in a phenomenological sense). The film is by Tao Ruspoli, a one-time student of Hubert Dreyfus. Amongst other things, this film might just be one of [...]

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