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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...