This week's Cemore reading group meandered to Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, because Baudrillard (last reading) made us curious about the symbolic as an act of exchange. We found Deleuze 'therapeutic' and not amenable to an instrumental method or epistemology....
Mobilities – General Posts
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...
Emergency Mobilities – CeMoRe Reading Group
Nov 23, 4-5pn, MobLab (B37) Adey, P. 2016. Emergency Mobilities. Mobilities 11(1): 32-48. PDF ABSTRACT This paper explores the relationship between mobilities and emergencies, two concepts that have shared little of the same space in research and critical debate....
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...
Attack on the drones by Brad Garrett and Adam Fish
Dr Bradley L Garrett who was awarded a CeMoRe Visiting Fellowship for 2016/17 has worked closely with Dr Adam Fish, CeMoRe Associated and Senior Lecturer in Sociology on the question 'Who owns the air above our cities? The public and the media are in danger of losing...
Cycling research comes to Lancaster
This September, Cemore has co-organised the most important academic conference on cycling, Cycling and Society Symposium. More than 50 cycling researchers and advocates from 15 countries have gathered in Lancaster to discuss the future of velomobilities. The...
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...
Friction – CeMoRe Reading Group
Mobilities Reading Group Join us for a discussion this Wed Dec 14, 4-5pm (Mobilities Lab). Join in person or via skype. Reading Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection by Anna Tsing. (Just the introduction!) PDF Abstract Challenging the widespread view that...
From our Away Day: Cemore 2016
At our away day in June 2016, we made a video thinking about John.