to empathize is to recognize the mysteriousness in you as much as it resides in me - and that primordial, spatial, contact experience transforms you & i 💫🌌🕸️ ~ Gregynog 2026 on “Edith Stein: Living an Anti-Fascist Life”, Chris Philo, Mitch Rose, Julian Brigstoke, Chris Muellerleile, Marcus Doel ~
📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights City of Desire by Tanzil Shafique. 🔍 Reviewer Ihnji Jon (Cardiff University) 📝 Read the full review: www.ijurr.org/book_review/...
my review of tanzil shafique’s city of desire www.ijurr.org/book_review/...
Tanzil Shafique 2025: City of Desire: An Urban Biography of the Largest Slum in Bangladesh. London: Bloomsbury. - IJURR
Tanzil Shafique’s City of Desire is a collection of essays that dispel any foundational claims on capitalist urbanization processes. Who is ‘the capitalist’? Who is ‘the helper’? What is ‘the capital’...
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✈️New in Geo!✈️ 'Copenhagen not Copacabana? Practices and perspectives for fieldwork without flying' by E. Cotterill, @ihnji.bsky.social & @routesandroots.bsky.social This paper addresses the challenges of designing fieldtrips around long-distance train travel. doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky
was sad to leave earlier but thank you for inspiring talks yesterday 💚⚡️🖤@digicologies.bsky.social @profgillian.bsky.social
#OpenAccess intervention in TIBG: 'On limit and love in times of environmental crises' by @ihnji.bsky.social This intervention explores whether 'love' offers a politically viable concept in times of environmental crisis. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky
it’s here … 🎉 thank you to @benandersongeog.bsky.social for making this happen ! “On limit and love in times of environmental crises” rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Also thrilled to announce that Volume 1 of Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory, is out. It was a huge labour of love for all involved and there are some terrific papers. The theme is Indigenous Ontologies. #geosky #academicsky agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org/1/volume/1/i...
Indigenous Ontologies | Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory
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thank you for following me ! i’m not super active on social media but will try to catch up 😊
"...even if we stopped burning fossil fuels this very minute, we would not want to stay at today’s 425.48 ppm of atmospheric CO2 because it’s not as favorable for human life as the pre-industrial concentration of 280 ppm." - @thelastfarm.bsky.social thelastfarm.substack.com/p/on-the-rad...
On the Radical Possibilities of Carbon Sequestration
Turning climate lemons into lemoncello
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Wim Wenders's incredible documentary on Anselm Kiefer is now playing in the Criterion Channel in the US. Won't be as breathtaking as the 3D version but it is still very much worth seeing. www.criterionchannel.com/anselm
Anselm - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Wim Wenders • 2023 • Germany Starring Anselm Kiefer, Anton Wenders, Daniel Kiefer In ANSELM, Wim Wenders creates a hypnotic portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and impor...
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Envelopes Addressed and Mailed by Type [and Graphic] Designers at Katherine Small Gallery — a lovely little flat-file exhibition
Wouldn't it be great if the rise of AI were to lead social science to place more emphasis on expressive and creative academic writing, rather than the formulaic kind of language writing that AI can mimic quite easily.
AI focus group with students —honestly i wonder whether this is going to encourage its usage “we can’t stop it now so let’s talk about “the right usage””—not so sure
The website for our new ECR-led journal Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory is now live: agoriad.cardiffuniversitypress.org CFP for Issue 2 to follow shortly "Thinking with fragments: the allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in geography" #geosky #academicsky #socialtheory #sociology
Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory
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Tomorrow's talk at USC: "From Sentinels to Sneakernets: Local Media for Urban Observation and Transformation" dornsife.usc.edu/stpl/observa...
