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Deadly Embrace
Later this year I’m giving two, radically revised versions of the British Academy Lecture I gave in London in March: ‘Deadly embrace: war, distance and intimacy’. The first will be a Keynote Lecture...
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Visualizations and digital displays: 10 Rules
My post about using visualizations and presentations as ways into writing has prompted a flurry of e-mails, so here are my ten ‘rules’ for using images in presentations (and storyboards). I use Mac’s...
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Histories of violence
I should have mentioned this before: Brad Evans, whose Foucauldian riffs have opened up a series of arresting perspectives on contemporary (‘liberal’) war, has a resource-rich website for his...
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New Downloads…
… just added on the ‘Middle East’ (for an exhibition at the wonderful UBC Museum of Anthropology next year, Safar/Voyage) and on “Human Geography” (with Noel Castree) for one of the Sage monsterworks…
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Theatre of/and war
The image of a ‘theatre of war’ may have become commonplace by now, but it conveys multiple layers of meaning – many of which accrete around ideas of visuality, spectatorship and performance. The OED...
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Grief, tragedy and translation
It’s been over a decade since Judith Butler reflected on Antigone, ‘the renowned insurgent’ from Sophocles’ Oedipus, in Antigone’s Claim: kinship between life and death (Columbia, 2000), but I’ve been...
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A geography of geographical imaginations
As I finally crawl out from my festive bunker, WordPress has provided a summary of activity on the blog for 2012. This is where you came from: The top posts in 2012 were these: 1 Visualizations and...
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TED talks and Wall works
This week it was announced that the TED talks will be moving from California to Vancouver in March 2014 – Mayor Gregor Robertson supposedly saw this as a sign that ‘we’re breaking through in thought...
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Off the Road
I’m sorry for the inordinately long silence – and grateful to all those who have written to ask if I’m OK. The short answer is yes – now. At the end of February I had a routine biopsy and, having...
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Refractions of war
During my recovery I’ve done less writing than I would like but more reading than I thought possible. Out of the blue I received Anders Engberg-Pedersen‘s Empire of chance: the Napoleonic wars and...
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Digital capture and physical kill
When he was the US Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Lt Gen David Deptula frequently warned about the danger of ‘swimming in sensors and drowning...
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Not One Direction
We are looking for a new Director for the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC in Vancouver; details below. More information about the Institute at our website here. If you want to know...
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John Urry
LANCASTER UNIVERSITY I’ve just heard that John Urry died unexpectedly last Friday: I’m so desperately sad. We first met when we edited Social relations and spatial structures together as part of...
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The Long Silence
Virtually a month since my last post, the longest silence since I started: my dad died last month, and I’m only just back from the UK and still stumbling around trying to find words. He left school at...
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A guide for the lost
I’ve been pleased to see how often old posts are consulted by readers: I never intended this to be a fleet of ships passing in the digital night. But as the blog has grown, I realise it’s become...
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Friction in a mobile world and the politics of escape
Joris Schapendonk is organizing the second Transmobilities Conference at Radboud University, Nijmegen in the Netherlands on 8-9 June 2017. The theme is Friction in a mobile world: Transmigrants,...
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Peter Meusburger
My dear friend and colleague Peter Meusburger died early on Monday morning. It was Peter who invited me to give the first Hettner Lecture in Heidelberg in 1997. He met me at the airport in Frankfurt –...
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Cities Lost & Remade
An editorial from Steve Niva, the new editor of the indispensable Middle East Report introduing the new issue: The merciless killing by Israeli snipers of over 100 mostly unarmed Palestinians...
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