by Harriet Phipps | Feb 16, 2016 | Mobilities - General
Research Project: Situated Composition My current research investigates what I am calling ‘situated composition’, referring to new possibilities for people with widely varying levels of expertise to carry out sound production in an unprecedented range of environments...
by Harriet Phipps | Feb 14, 2016 | Mobilities - General
We often think of planets as being in perfect kinetic and gravitational equilibrium, but this is seldom the case. Bronislaw Szerszynski shows us that all mobilities occurring in the Earth are, in fact, achievements of a far-from-equilibrium planet. In terms of...
by Harriet Phipps | Feb 7, 2016 | Mobilities - General
‘We often pull up skulls and bones in our nets.’ (Lampedusa fisherman to BBC reporter, April, 2015) Imogen Tyler, professor of Sociology at Lancaster, discusses her research on stigma and migration. In the context of the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe,...
by Harriet Phipps | Feb 3, 2016 | Mobilities - General
The upcoming Mobilities Reading Group will take place Wednesday, 10 February from 4PM-5PM in the Mobilities Lab (Bowland North B37, Lancaster University). This week’s reading is Federica Timeto’s “Diffracting the rays of technoscience: a situated critique of...
by Harriet Phipps | Feb 1, 2016 | Art, Mobilities - General
Julia Gillen and her colleagues at the Edwardian Postcard Project are researching the early British postcards. She presents us her magnificent work on the proto-Instagrams. I’m currently researching picture postcards of the format in use at the very beginning...
