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Difference and Repetition

Difference and Repetition

Cemore Reading Group, Wednesday February 1st, 4-5pm, Bowland North B37 (Mobilities Lab). The Cemore reading group will next meet to discuss the Introduction to Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition (London: Continuum Books, 2004 [1968], pp. 1-37). It will be...

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Knowledge Exchange on ELSI in Disaster Risk Management

Knowledge Exchange on ELSI in Disaster Risk Management

Sharing information in disasters can raise complex ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI). At a workshop with emergency practitioners, commercial and academic developers of information sharing platforms, and experts on digital ethics and law, the SecInCoRe project...

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Deep mapping the Duddon Valley

Deep mapping the Duddon Valley

Artist Nikki Pugh has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship to help support a collaboration with Dr Christopher Donaldson (Lecturer in Regional History and Co-Investigator on the Leverhulme Trust-funded Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities: A Deep Mapping of...

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Death Studies Special Issue

All papers for The Death Studies Special Issue have been received and are currently being reviewed. The issue will be published in February 2018.  This issue was inspired by the Futures of the End of Life Symposium hosted at Lancaster University in January 2016. It...

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Symbolic Exchange & Death

Symbolic Exchange & Death

18th January 2017 Chapter 5 Political Economy and Death (p. 125-194) from Baudrillard, Jean 1993. Symbolic Exchange and Death. London/Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. Chaired by Miriam Schreiter. Here's how it starts: As soon as savages began to call 'men' only those...

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Reframing Drone Methodologies

Reframing Drone Methodologies

What drones are capable of in our hands? This is the question raised by Bradley Garrett and Adam Fish in a guest blog post about drone methodologies.   Lost in the concern that the drone is an authoritarian instrument is the possibility that it might...

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