1st March 2017 Reading: aesthetic anticipation of the future
Let's read 'Artistic Regimes and the Shortcomings of the Notion of Modernity' from Ranciere's the politics of aesthetics (2004, pp. 20-30. http://www.stroom.nl/media/Ranciere_The%20Distribution%20of%20The%20Sensible_Politics%20of%20Aesthetics.pdf slowly.
Cemore walk: Shaping and being shaped by the Duddon Valley
Sunday 12th February Join us in the Duddon Valley in the Lake District for a breath of fresh air and a Cemore walking seminar with artist Nikki Pugh. The walk will take in sites related to Nikki’s research for her current work with Chris Donaldson from Lancaster...
5 Anatomy Lessons
Anatomy of a Soldier tells the story of a British captain injured in Afghanistan. From this compelling starting point, author Harry Parker adds a twist: forty-five objects narrate the story. Though a bestseller this book wasn’t on my radar until Ole B. Jensen, when...
Difference, repetition, movement
This week's Cemore reading group meandered to Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, because Baudrillard (last reading) made us curious about the symbolic as an act of exchange. We found Deleuze 'therapeutic' and not amenable to an instrumental method or epistemology....
Mobile Utopia: Pasts, Presents, Futures Cemore|T2M|Cosmobilities Conference
Cemore is hosting the 2017 Mobilities Conference!
Difference and Repetition
Cemore Reading Group, Wednesday February 1st, 4-5pm, Bowland North B37 (Mobilities Lab). The Cemore reading group will next meet to discuss the Introduction to Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition (London: Continuum Books, 2004 [1968], pp. 1-37). It will be...
Knowledge Exchange on ELSI in Disaster Risk Management
Sharing information in disasters can raise complex ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI). At a workshop with emergency practitioners, commercial and academic developers of information sharing platforms, and experts on digital ethics and law, the SecInCoRe project...
Researching and communicating disasters, one tweet at a time
How to navigate through the noise of social media and communicate effectively in disaster situations? Lise Ann St Denis, from the University of Colorado, Boulder, has visited CeMoRe to give a seminar on this topic. Lise Ann St Denis has looked at a grassroots...
Deep mapping the Duddon Valley
Artist Nikki Pugh has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship to help support a collaboration with Dr Christopher Donaldson (Lecturer in Regional History and Co-Investigator on the Leverhulme Trust-funded Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities: A Deep Mapping of...
Death Studies Special Issue
The Death Studies Special Issue is nearing completion and will be published in February 2018.
Symbolic Exchange & Death
18th January 2017 Chapter 5 Political Economy and Death (p. 125-194) from Baudrillard, Jean 1993. Symbolic Exchange and Death. London/Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. Chaired by Miriam Schreiter. Here's how it starts: As soon as savages began to call 'men' only those...
Reframing Drone Methodologies
What drones are capable of in our hands? This is the question raised by Bradley Garrett and Adam Fish in a guest blog post about drone methodologies. Lost in the concern that the drone is an authoritarian instrument is the possibility that it might...
Mobilities, Volume 11, Issue 5, December 2016 – OUT NOW!
Includes diverse articles by Bonno Pel; Stefan Gössling and Iliada Stavrinidi; Simon Cook, Jon Shaw and Paul Simpson; Thomas Bjørner; Bradley Rink and Asher Gamedze; Gregg Culver and Lucrezia Lopez, Rubèn Camilo Lois González, Belén Ma Castro Fernández
Attack on the drones by Brad Garrett and Adam Fish
Urban airspace is being radically reshaped by the proliferation of drones – a process which is quickly slicing the air into private strips. Urban citizens are at risk of losing access to a valuable public resource as corporations are given prioritisation in the skies above our heads.
Friction – CeMoRe Reading Group
Mobilities Reading Group Join us for a discussion this Wed Dec 14, 4-5pm (Mobilities Lab). Join in person or via skype. Reading Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection by Anna Tsing. (Just the introduction!) PDF Abstract Challenging the widespread view that...
Material Mobilities and the Turn to Design in Mobilities Research
What does the turn towards design and architecture within the ‘new mobilities turn’ mean? Ole B. Jensen, Professor in the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology at Aalborg University, has visited us to give the talk 'Material Mobilities and the...
Mobilising disasters
How to think about disasters not as fixed events, but as temporally and spatially dependent? Eric L. Hsu, from Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformations, the University Of South Australia, has visited Cemore for a few days this...
Emergency Mobilities – CeMoRe Reading Group
Nov 23, 4-5pn, MobLab (B37) Adey, P. 2016. Emergency Mobilities. Mobilities 11(1): 32-48. PDF ABSTRACT This paper explores the relationship between mobilities and emergencies, two concepts that have shared little of the same space in research and critical debate....