Delighted that Graphic Refuge won this year’s Comics Studies Society book prize and that it’s already informing reading lists and teach-ins against the anti-migrant forces all around us. @crifkind.bsky.social & I are indebted to critical refugee studies & to Vinh Nguyen who wrote an amazing foreword

From decluttering bedroom drawers to detoxing from social media, minimalism has taken the affluent class by storm. Are they just an online trend or do they foster deeper desires that might be mobilised in the pursuit of a just world after capitalist growthism? on.soundcloud.com/Px0koxPPU4Wy...

Less is Not Enough: Minimalist Desires and Postgrowth Politics, with Miriam Meissner, Dom Davies, and Postgrowth Planning at UCL Bartlett

From decluttering bedroom drawers to detoxing from social media, minimalism has taken the global affluent class by storm. But what are the cultural politics of minimalist practices? Are they just an o

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honored and delighted to join @drdomdavies.bsky.social and Kremena Dimitrova in the Journal of The @britishacademy.bsky.social, documenting our exhibition at the Academy’s Summer Showcase last year representing @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/14/...

I've been posting less and less on here, but now i am back i have a chance to tell everyone to read this brilliant exploration of five key graphic narratives of the climate crisis from the great Dom Davies!

Dom Davies@drdomdavies.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In this essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social I explore five graphic narratives that draw us to life in extraction zones breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/drawn-to-e...

Looking forward to this on 31 March, come join us! Registration at link below

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us for this free public event in London with @dudleymarianna.bsky.social discussing her book Electric Wind with @drdomdavies.bsky.social and featuring an exhibition of art and sound made in response to energy and the weather. Refreshments also provided!! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Join us for this free public event in London with @dudleymarianna.bsky.social discussing her book Electric Wind with @drdomdavies.bsky.social and featuring an exhibition of art and sound made in response to energy and the weather. Refreshments also provided!! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

In this essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social I explore five graphic narratives that draw us to life in extraction zones breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/drawn-to-e...

Drawn to Extraction

Five graphic narratives that document life in extraction zones

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Not one but two really engaging reviews of Graphic Refuge now out in @comicsgrid.com

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship@comicsgrid.com · 5mo ago

New in the journal! Precup, M., (2026) “Reading for Refugeetude: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 16(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/cg.... @openlibhums.org #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies cc @wlupress.bsky.social

New in the journal! Precup, M., (2026) “Reading for Refugeetude: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 16(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/cg.... @openlibhums.org #OpenAccess #ComicsStudies cc @wlupress.bsky.social

Reading for Refugeetude: A Review of <em>Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics</em>

This review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, co-written by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, with a preface by Vinh Nguyen (2025), places the book in the wider political ...

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Our latest TTiN podcast is now out with Samir Harb, Exhausted Circulation: Palestine and the Politics of Cement on.soundcloud.com/4mnSjnk599sR...

Exhausted Circulation: Palestine and the Politics of Cement, with Samir Harb

Concrete underpins modern construction and allows for building processes that are mostly taken for granted. But where does the cement that comprises concrete actually come from? What natural resources

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It was great to speak with Samir Harb for the @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social pod about the politics of cement in Palestine and why he turned to comics to make sense of the territorial contradictions of the Israeli occupation

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ttin... I had a great conversation with Dom Davies and you can listen in!

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What is logistics? How is it shaped by capitalist power? And how has it shaped our imaginations in turn? @susanzieger.bsky.social explains for the thinking through infrastructure podcast open.spotify.com/episode/64AW...

Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space, the latest episode of the TTiN podcast with @susanzieger.bsky.social is out now! on.soundcloud.com/2XhRSBW1ZTdy...

Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space, with Susan Zieger

Logistics describes the just-in-time supply chains that make consumer capitalism possible in the twenty-first century. It has seeped into every corner of our imaginations and behaviours, transforming

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What is logistics? How is it shaped by capitalist power? And how has it shaped our imaginations in turn? @susanzieger.bsky.social explains for the thinking through infrastructure podcast open.spotify.com/episode/64AW...

Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space, with Susan Zieger

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Rich and detailed review of Graphic Refuge by Nina Mickwitz in @comicsgrid.com open access

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship@comicsgrid.com · 6mo ago

New in the journal! Mickwitz, N., (2026) “On Reading as Political Practice: A Review of Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 16(1). doi: doi.org/10.16995/cg.... #ComicsStudies powered by @openlibhums.org; @janewayolh.bsky.social

Had a great time chatting with @drdomdavies.bsky.social about literature, automobiles, infrastructure, and US empire. @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social is a really cool project - well worth checking out.

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What makes an American road novel? What does this genre tell us about the imperial ambitions of infrastructure? And all the hopes and broken promises of individualised Automobility? @drdomdavies.bsky.social sat down with @mykaabramson.bsky.social to find out more open.spotify.com/episode/41YZ...

This was such a thought provoking and expansive conversation, an excellent demonstration of what literature can reveal about the many affective, cultural, and political lives of infrastructure

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Check out our latest podcast episode with @mykaabramson.bsky.social on the American road novel and its uneven journeys across Eastern Europe, Latin America, and elsewhere! What does this genre teach us about the politics of automative infrastructure?!! on.soundcloud.com/vX1R6KCX6gTc...

What makes an American road novel? What does this genre tell us about the imperial ambitions of infrastructure? And all the hopes and broken promises of individualised Automobility? @drdomdavies.bsky.social sat down with @mykaabramson.bsky.social to find out more open.spotify.com/episode/41YZ...

Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony, with Myka Tucker-Abramson

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New episode of Thinking Through Infrastructure podcast out now, featuring @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social and @bobbyjewell.bsky.social on the experience of rain in the wet city of Glasgow and how it calls on us to see (and hear) infrastructure differently on.soundcloud.com/n5QnspCifThX...

Living With Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow, with Andrew Hoolachan and Bobby Jewell

How does rain impact how and when people get around, whether on foot, on public transport, or in private vehicles? How does it affect how we use outdoor and public spaces, from parks to streets and sh

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Really glad to be on @drdomdavies.bsky.social fantastic Thinking Through Infrastructure podcast with @andrewhoolachan.bsky.social We talk about Living With Rain in Glasgow following Andrew's fantastic report & my own responses to rain through sound Listen here >>> soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...

Living With Rain: Planning for Everyday Life in Glasgow, with Andrew Hoolachan and Bobby Jewell

How does rain impact how and when people get around, whether on foot, on public transport, or in private vehicles? How does it affect how we use outdoor and public spaces, from parks to streets and sh

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Our short 2025 in review episode out now on our Soundcloud channel and other podcast platforms, featuring brief excerpts from our discussions with @zackpolanski.bsky.social, the Foundational Economy Collective, @julietjfall.bsky.social and others on.soundcloud.com/4TE7ZqvzJaR9...

2025 in Review, with Dom Davies

In this short review episode of the Thinking Through Infrastructure podcast, network convenor Dom Davies looks back at some of TTiN's activities in 2025, including our event with Zack Polanski, our bo

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A short piece in @theconversation.com on Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams and the adaptation currently on Netflix theconversation.com/train-dreams...

Train Dreams on Netflix is a beautiful film – but it misses the magic of the original novella

The film loses the spirit of unsettling indirection that comprises the magic of the original story.

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An interesting selection on this list of “books that got you through your twenties” for @theconversation.com There was only ever one choice for me: Joe Sacco’s Palestine. What would yours be? theconversation.com/twenty-exper...

Twenty experts on the book that got them through their 20s – part one

Many of us turn to literature to guide us through the highs and the lows of this formative time

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If anybody's watching #TrainDreams on #Netflix and is interested a postcolonial/infrastructural reading of the novel, this essay I wrote a few years ago is available in full here drive.google.com/file/d/1Kydm...

What would you say if you had 5 minutes to talk to Matt Damon about the “global water crisis”? Our conversation with Filippo Menga about Thirst published this year by @versobooks.bsky.social is now available on our Soundcloud channel and most podcast platforms. on.soundcloud.com/cp29Zt2aTJKK...

Download the Introduction to Graphic Refuge by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, now Open Access on our website @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...

Great to see the intro to Graphic Refuge now available open access from @wlupress.bsky.social !

Wilfrid Laurier University Press@wlupress.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Download the Introduction to Graphic Refuge by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, now Open Access on our website @drdomdavies.bsky.social @crifkind.bsky.social www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...

It was such a pleasure to chat with @julietjfall.bsky.social about her recent book Along the Line, which explores border infrastructure through graphic narrative. For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure. m.soundcloud.com/ttinfrastruc...

Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, with Juliet Fall

Stream Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, with Juliet Fall by Thinking Through Infrastructure Network on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free ...

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This was such an inspiring discussion highlighting the value of an infrastructural approach to borders but also of alternative methods that bring wide audiences with them through the research process

Juliet J. Fall@julietjfall.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A great pleasure to chat to @drdomdavies.bsky.social about infrastructure, comics, and why using visual essays changes how we observe, think and write about the world. The podcast is available to listen to on the link here 👇, as well as on the other usual platforms (spotify, apple podcasts, etc).

Looking forward to this conversation with Filippo (a coauthor of mine on comics and climate change from a few years ago) next week about his new book Thirst: The Quest to Solve the Global Water Crisis, out now with @versobooks.bsky.social. Join us!

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Join us next week for a session on global water infrastructure with Filippo Menga & others - online Tuesday 17 Nov at 12pm GMT. Link below