Welcome to the Mobilities Lab
NoWHere: Futures of Collaboration
To experiment with futures of collaboration, the NowHere project team are running a 'no-fly' workshop. On 27th March 2017, Monika Buscher, Andrew Glover, Tania Lewis and Yolanda Strengers at RMIT in Melbourne (16:00) will start the workshop with James Faulconbridge,...
Out Now: Data Publics Programme
The Final Programme for Data Publics: Investigating the formation and representation of crowds, groups and clusters in digital economies Lancaster University, March 31 / April 1 & 2, 2017 This conference will investigate the diverse ways in which publics are, and...
Mobilities, Literature, Culture: CeMoRe hosts April conference
On April 21-22nd 2017 CeMoRe will host the inaugural conference of the new Palgrave Macmillan book series, Studies in Mobilities, Literature and Culture. The series directors - Charlotte Mathieson (University of Surrey), Marian Aguiar (Carnegie Mellon, USA),...
Taking out the trash
Picking Up is about the seemingly mundane and certainly smelly world of garbage collection in New York City. Author Robin Nagle is motivated by the question, “Who cleans up after us?” She works as an anthropologist-in-residence at the New York Department of Sanitation...
Reading Ranciere 1st March 2017
1st March 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...
A body spa on the move: The emperor’s bathing experience
How does a sensual bathing experience link to a digitized one? Kornelia Hahn, professor of Sociology at the University of Salzburg, presents an empirical case of a popular commodified spa body treatment that is marketed as the emperor’s bathing experience. ...