At very long last, the first episode of Data Materiality is out. Data Materiality is a podcast series I co-host with Joel McKim, and is related to our three-year research project running under the same name, co-sponsored by Birkbeck’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture and the Vasari Centre for Art and Technology. … Continue Reading
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New website for Richard Evans
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
‘Holding Things in Common’ Symposium at Birkbeck
Richard Evans, a PhD student at Birkbeck, is co-organising a postgraduate and early career symposium titled Holding Things in Common: the vernacular, everyday objects and memory at the Birkbeck Cinema on Monday 12th May. The event includes three panels showcasing a wide range of interesting papers (see schedule below). This will be followed by a … Continue Reading
New paper published on ‘Circulating cities of difference’
In what must be surely the fastest turnaround from final manuscript submission to publication I will ever experience, a paper of mine has just been published in JOMEC Journal. Originally a book chapter in a unpublished edited book, this paper has now been significantly revised before as well as after peer review, just in time … Continue Reading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
Call for papers: communication and new materialism
In quite a short space of time, there seems to have been a remarkable renewal of interest in media technologies, and in particular in the ‘materiality’ of media. Points of reference vary, but media archaeology, medium theory, digital humanities, science and technology studies, and object-oriented philosophy have all recently been prominent points of reference. In … Continue Reading
Conference on communication and the city
In the pleasant myopia for relaxation which characterized of my recent holidays, and which led to the accumulation of many emails from many listservs, I almost missed news of what sounds like a fantastic conference. At least if you’re like me and are really, really interested in the intersections of cities and media. Communication and … 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
Reflective light media
I was going to simply post this photo along with a pithy caption… but it reminds me of how I’ve always been enticed by the idea of mediums of light, even if that light does not necessarily communicate in some identifiably semiotic way [Update: I’ve later realised that I unintentionally lifted this basic idea straight … Continue Reading
Computing arts and humanities matter
A couple of months ago I noticed this intersesting event, The Computational Turn, which will be held at Swansea University on 9 March 2010. The conference promises a slightly unconventional take on the ‘arts and humanities’, considering the ways in which digital or computation-based technologies and techniques are fundamentally transforming the means and forms through … Continue Reading