Subtopia: Urbanization of Panic>>On Franco Berardi’s City of Panic and “panic as a volatile urban harmony.”
New Network Theory>>An upcoming event in Amsterdam: “It is time to look for elements that can make up a network theory outside of post-modern cultural studies (which marvelled at the place-less place) and ethnographic social sciences (which reminded us of […]
Jean Burgess recently brought the work of Australian-based cultural geographer Christy Collis to my attention and it’s just too good not to share! I quite enjoyed her and Maggie Nolan’s short introductory piece on Sites of Benevolence (pdf), but it’s her work on Antarctica that really captured my imagination.
According to the Australian Antarctic Division, […]
From Really Bad Wiring Jobs, via Plep
Antwerp. Life Magazine, 26 January, 1953
“Here twin metaphors of a pump and an octopus, in the guise of an impossibly surreal combination of a colossal flame-red pump that is also a colossal octopus, are posed as if replacing or superimposed upon the real-world Antwerp. This fantastic threatening creature is pumping a variety of military items […]
YouTube: Security
From Hometown Baghdad: An ongoing documentary web series following the lives of a few Iraqi 20-somethings trying to survive in Baghdad.
Thanks Mike!