Tag Archives: space
Ears have walls by Rowland Atkinson
Just over a year ago Rowland Atkinson published the article Ears Have Walls in the open access journal Aether. The piece engages with issues around urban sound and noise. Rowland has included some great images. It sits alongside his other … Continue reading
A new issue of Lo Squaderno on ‘space-time-speed’
A new issue of Lo Squaderno has just been published on the topic of Space-Time-Speed.
Gillian Rose on Kitchin & Dodge’s code/space
Based on her current project on digital imaging and urban design practice, Gillian Rose provides some thoughts responding to Rob Kitchin & Martin Dodge’s work on Code/Space. Gillian identifies some of the potential limitations of the focus on software.
An event: The Social Spaces of Music: Networks, Worlds, Fields and Scenes
CRESC at Manchester University are hosting an event ‘The Social Spaces of Music: Networks, Worlds, Fields and Scenes’. It has an impressive list of speakers. Here’s a link to the details. And here is the blurb: Music researchers have increasingly … Continue reading
Bodies in musical bubbles: space, music and everyday life
My piece ‘Bodies in Musical Bubbles’ has just been published in Berfois. Here’s a link. Here’s the opening paragraph: In the 1980s one of the defining images of cool, for In the 1980s one of the defining images of cool, … Continue reading
Code/Space by Rob Kitchin & Martin Dodge
I’ve been reading Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge’s excellent book Code/Space: Software and Everyday life. The book is all about software and digital infrastructures. The book is a culmination of co- authored work by Kitchin & Dodge. They have written … Continue reading
Lefebvre, space and the body
I’ve just returned to Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space, but this time I tried to look at its depiction of the body in social space. Focusing on this one aspect I was surprised to find just how central the … Continue reading
Mobile music, coded objects and everyday spaces
I’ve just noticed that the journal Mobilities have made one of my articles open access: ‘Mobile music, coded objects and everyday spaces‘. It was a piece in which I tried to situate mobile music in urban data infrastructures. It applies … Continue reading
Matthew Gandy interview and other bits
As I’m doing some writing on infrastructures, and after listening to Stuart Elden’s talk (see previous post), I’ve just been looking at Matthew Gandy’s work. I found this interview with him, which covers some of the background and the direction … Continue reading
Debating spatial theory
The new issue of the journal Dialogues in Human Geography contains an transcription of an exchange on spatial theory along with two responses. This journal is based on two lead articles both of which are followed by short response pieces.
Thinking culture 