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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. ...
Cemore Showcase
Last week we organized another edition of Cemore Showcase, featuring 3-minute stand-up presentations by our researchers and associates. A dozen presentations on topics ranging from cycling to migration, to autonomous driving, to death in digital games have been...
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...