Tag Archives: talk
Derek Raymond and Urban Decline
Last week I attended a symposium on ‘Negotiating Morbid Spaces’. Some of the talks are now available as podcasts. Here my colleague Gareth Millington gives a great paper on urban decline in the novels if Derek Raymond. Gareth uses Lefebvre, … Continue reading
Mike Savage on The Old New Politics of Class
Mike Savage’s inaugural lecture at the LSE is now available as audio and video. It’s on the topic of The Old New Politics of Class. In the lecture Mike talks about his work on class, and how his previous work … Continue reading
Audio podcasts of talks on the topic of digital sociology
Mark Carrigan’s blog is proving to be an excellent resource for materials to use on my postgraduate module on ‘digital by-product data and the social sciences’. He has recently posted a series if audio podcasts of talks on digital sociology. … Continue reading
Bernard Stiegler?
Bernard Stiegler is not a writer that I know very much about. I’ve noticed though that he seems to be gaining increasing attention. Indeed, he is already moving in to the status of the academic superstar. He is certainly fashionable. … Continue reading
Why big data is not the truth
The New York Times has published an overview of a recent talk by Kate Crawford on the limits or ‘myths’ of big data. This has been circulating around Twitter over the last few days, with various responses. The piece outlines … Continue reading
Stuart Elden talking about Peter Sloterdijk
Stuart Elden has posted an audio of his talk on Peter Sloterdijk at the recent AAG conference. Stuart talks here about how Sloterdijk’s work might be used, what it’s limitations are and the need to sustain an engagement with his … Continue reading
Sarah Kember talking about intelligent machines
The Goldsmiths podcast resource has a series of talks by Sarah Kember on the topic of new media. Here is a link to the lecture on intelligent machines. Sarah also has a detailed website about her work.
A new audio: My talk on ‘Archiving and the organisation of popular culture’
I’ve just uploaded a talk I gave recently to the postgraduates in the Centre for Modern Studies at York on the topic of ‘Archiving and the organisation of popular culture’. The audio of the talk is available here and it’s … Continue reading
Forthcoming presentation on ‘Popular culture, digital archives and the new social life of data’
Later in November I’m going to be giving a talk to the Centre for Modern Studies postgraduate forum here at York. Here’s the information about the talk. My original plan was to present a piece that I’ve got coming out … Continue reading
Exploring the emergence of underground musical worlds, a talk by Nick Crossley
Nick Crossley at Manchester has done some really revealing work into music scenes over recent years. He has used social network analysis to look at how scenes form and operate. Although he thinks of these as ‘worlds’ rather than scenes. … Continue reading
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