The New Yorker: Annals of the Road: Getting There
Nick Paumgarten takes a brilliant look at the difference between “being told where you are and knowing where you are”.
The connection between representation and performativity in mapping has never been clear. From early photographic road-guides and “live-maps” to GPS technologies and Google Earth, orientation […]
Campuses Ringed by Barriers
… “Students are caught in a war of brand loyalties,” she concluded. “They are forced to live in a globalized capitalist society, but their education has failed to comply.”
… North American universities could learn a lot from their European counterparts. By the end of the decade, students will be able to transfer […]
I’ve been researching the question of hope without idealism or utopianism. I’m looking for a way to explain the feeling of hope I get reading Beckett or Nietzsche or Bataille. The kind of hope that doesn’t conflate itself with beauty, that shakes me to the core, that demands action not sometime in the […]
Urban Tapestries in Google Earth
“As we are nearing completion of version 2 of the Urban Tapestries public authoring platform we are pleased to release a network link for Google Earth to all the content uploaded by participants in the original trials of the UT prototypes back in December 2003 and June/July 2004.”
Looking for a Manager, really a business manager, for this new research centre located in Edmonton. The centre will house research and researchers working on urban issues, including but not limited to socioeconomic planning, GIS, urban communications and culture and municipal governance.
From the advert:
Firm Deadline: May 26 2006
Duties: budget administration, planning, evaluation of the […]