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Don’t be surprised, mobilise
When President Trump called refugees coming into the US ‘animals’ on live TV, it wasn’t a surprise. When Roseanne Barr, a prominent Trump supporter likened a Valerie Jarrett – an African-American advisor to Obama – to an ape, it wasn’t a surprise. When it broke that the UK government has been deporting…
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Walking Heathrow: Exploring the fissures of infrastructure
Originally posted on Landscape Surgery: As I’m sat in my car, parked in the Hatton Cross Station Car Park, I watch as the dark blue hue of the cold November morning sky slowly turns to a light grey, as the sun struggles to pierce the thick blanket of cloud above.…
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Happy 8th Birthday!
Today is the 8th birthday of this blog. My blogging style and content has changed substantially in those 8 years (as you can tell from my first ever post) although, I’d like to think you can see the critical human geographer scratching at the surface in those words. Below is a…
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The Dystopia of Sodor: Thomas the Tank Engine and Neoliberalism
Originally posted on Landscape Surgery: Thomas – the perfect neoliberal subject Thomas the Tank Engine, the popular children’s book and TV series, has been with us for 70 years, and still captures the imagination of children around the world. As a father of two rapidly growing-up children, trains seem to…
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Being Human // Human Being – Ex Machina
Originally posted on passengerfilms: Join us for an event which seeks to explore what it means to be human, or simply alive, in a world in which the digitally processed virtual is increasingly experienced in the actualities of everyday life. Curated and hosted by digital geographies PhD students Mike Duggan…
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Upcoming Event: Passenger Films and Precarious Geographies present “Nightcrawler”
Originally posted on passengerfilms: Join us on Tuesday 19th of January for a screening and exploration of Dan Gilroy’s fascinating film ‘Nightcrawler’ presented by Passengerfilms in collaboration with ‘Precarious Geographies’ and Genesis Cinema. Set in the hyper-precarious world of contemporary LA, Nightcrawler is a disturbing critique of the neoliberal urban…
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Subverting the aesthetics of decay
Originally posted on Landscape Surgery: The aesthetics of decay have been well versed of late, not only within academic literature, but also mainstream media and online via blogs and other social media. We have seen an aquarium in an abandoned shopping mall in Bangkok, entire disused airports in Cyprus and an whole abandoned island used…
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The Las Vegas Affect
Originally posted on Landscape Surgery: Welcome to the Desert of the Hyperreal… There has been a great deal of scorn poured on Las Vegas from the academy. From its low creative city ranking, its over-reliance on too narrow an industry base and its crippling ecological effects, Sin City has been…
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Reflexive Creativity in Urban Politics?
Many years ago I coined the phrase Urban Subversion that began as an interest in parkour as a creative act of urban re-appropriation. It soon became apparent as I looked for additional ways in which people were interacting with the city in novel and innovate ways, there was a small, but increasing…
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