“Reversion.” Photo by greybeard.
Gabion: Not building: the lure of desolation
“I’ll confess right away that my liking for dereliction is supremely selfish. It is built upon the idea of the lost world - not some jungle paradise, but a misplaced piece of the urban realm. To enjoy an abandoned fragment of cityscape is to want […]
Fibreculture Issue 6 - Mobility, new social intensities and the coordinates of digital networks
Papers of note:
From Stabilitas Loci to Mobilitas Loci: Networked Mobility and the Transformation of Placeby Rowan Wilken
“This paper explores the notion of place in relation to networked mobility and mobile phone use. Two key arguments are developed. The first is that the […]
Originally named Lugdunum by the Romans, Lyon was founded in 43 BC. It was strategically situated at the confluence of two rivers — the Saone and the Rhone — and today is France’s third biggest city (behind Paris and Marseille) and its second biggest metropolitan area. Most recently Lyon was in the news due to […]
(Source: WHO)
These times are bad for tourists. It is a little ironic that the lure of global travel and unimpeded mobility, also seems to extend to the world of microorganisms.
I was just going through a stack of old WHO files and discovered this image of emergent viruses of the 1990s. I noticed that Influenza A H5N1 was already ‘on the books’ almost ten years ago. It seems strange that in a world that places so much emphasis on ‘immediacy’, the timescales of epidemics still […]