First of all I would like to express my gratitude for granting me the CeMoRe Visiting Fellowship 2014. When I decided to apply for it after the 10th year anniversary conference at CeMoRe in 2013 I actually had quite forgotten how much one can benefit from a visiting...
To understand the future of mobility we must prioritise all of the social activities and associated material infrastructures that create a need to be in particular places at particular times, argues our guest blogger today, professor James Faulconbridge. There...
The upcoming Mobilities Reading Group will take place Wednesday, 24 February from 4PM-5PM in the Mobilities Lab (Bowland North B37, Lancaster University). This week’s reading is Arkady Plotnitsky’s “From Resonance to Interference: The Architecture of Concepts and the...
Joe Deville, Lecturer at Lancaster University, discusses his recent book Lived Economies of Default: Consumer Credit, Debt Collection and the Capture of Affect. This book, published by Routledge in 2015, examines what happens when everyday forms of borrowing –...
Research Project: Situated Composition https://vimeo.com/155535620 My current research investigates what I am calling ‘situated composition’, referring to new possibilities for people with widely varying levels of expertise to carry out sound production in an...
We often think of planets as being in perfect kinetic and gravitational equilibrium, but this is seldom the case. Bronislaw Szerszynski shows us that all mobilities occurring in the Earth are, in fact, achievements of a far-from-equilibrium planet. In terms of...
‘We often pull up skulls and bones in our nets.’ (Lampedusa fisherman to BBC reporter, April, 2015) Imogen Tyler, professor of Sociology at Lancaster, discusses her research on stigma and migration. In the context of the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe,...
The upcoming Mobilities Reading Group will take place Wednesday, 10 February from 4PM-5PM in the Mobilities Lab (Bowland North B37, Lancaster University). This week’s reading is Federica Timeto’s “Diffracting the rays of technoscience: a situated critique of...
Julia Gillen and her colleagues at the Edwardian Postcard Project are researching the early British postcards. She presents us her magnificent work on the proto-Instagrams. I’m currently researching picture postcards of the format in use at the very beginning...