Outback Metropolis by Penelope Dean and Peter Trummer
“Australia’s largest polis is not Sydney but a geographical network of settlements scattered across the central continent – connected not by shared streets but the aircraft and telecommunications system of the Royal Flying Doctors Service…The territory covered by the RFDS is not a city. It is also […]
Preparing for a class lecture on cultures of science and technology, I remembered one of the Spanish colonial chronicles I read for my Masters’ work: Felipe Guaman Poma’s Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (in Spanish). Brilliant stuff, and not least because of how it raises questions about how we write histories and cultures. […]
The crisis in humanism stems from a slow but insidious erosion of the key principle of modern thought – which Foucault referred to as ‘man and his doubles’. I am simply assuming here a notion of modernity that is based on the centrality of human being as both origin and destiny of reason, finding expressions […]
Following the seasonal feasts that have the capacity to contribute deleteriously to one’s health, it is worth recalling that “space” is not just good for pondering and writing about, but is especially good when called upon to serve as a medium to be moved through.
The sensorial and sweaty effects of such movement can function to […]
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
“When a traveller asked Wordsworth’s servant to show him her master’s study, she answered ‘Here is his library, but his study is out of doors.’
Living much out of doors, in the sun and wind, will no doubt produce a certain roughness of character—will cause a thicker cuticle to grow over some […]