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....
Cycling research comes to Lancaster
This September, Cemore has co-organised the most important academic conference on cycling, Cycling and Society Symposium. More than 50 cycling researchers and advocates from 15 countries have gathered in Lancaster to discuss the future of velomobilities. The...
Art Mobilities Field Trip
Experience Mobilities of Memory: …, these sounds give way to fragments of stories from the men in the trenches; a stilted marriage proposal, an enquiry about health, a thank you for kippers sent through the post, a description of daily conditions and accounts of the...