Category Archives: Boundaries

Designing Geopolitics conference

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

In San Diego this weekend, but with live stream. D:GP is a think-tank focused on how planetary scale computation transforms political geography and models of sovereignty, as seen through the lens of speculative art and design. D:GP collaborates directly with … Continue reading →

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Alexandra Hall – Border Watch

Posted on May 20, 2012 by

And via Carceral Geography (also mentioned by Peter), news that my former Durham colleague Alex Hall’s new book Border Watch is listed on the Pluto website – due out in July. Questions over immigration and asylum face almost all Western countries. … Continue reading →

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C.L.R. James’ Beyond a Boundary – 50th Anniversary Conference

Posted on May 18, 2012 by

First Call for Papers C.L.R. James’ Beyond a Boundary. 50th Anniversary Conference. University of Glasgow. Friday 10th and Saturday 11th May, 2013. Regularly cited as one of the great sports books of the twentieth century, C.L.R. James’ Beyond a Boundary … Continue reading →

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Tim Ingold on the Line

Posted on May 18, 2012 by

Understood in a purely geometrical sense, it has length but no width at all. Fully linearized, the line is no longer the trace of a gesture but a chain of point-to-point connections. In these connections there is neither life nor movement. Linearization, … Continue reading →

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Borderscapes in Trieste

Posted on May 15, 2012 by

very interesting looking conference coming up in June. details here.

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Nakba – Manual of Return and Reading List

Posted on May 15, 2012 by

May 15th is the anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, ‘the catastrophe’, for Palestinians. The Funambulist site has linked to the fascinating ‘manual of return’, with English translations, that is distributed to those who make their way to the borders of Israel … Continue reading →

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Beyond Walls and Cages

Posted on May 13, 2012 by

Important collection forthcoming later this year, edited by Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson, and my Durham IBRU colleague Andrew Burridge. The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to … Continue reading →

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Posts at Durham

Posted on May 8, 2012 by

Durham University has advertised a large number of senior level appointments across the university. Details here. Areas include conflict, security and borders; engaged humanities; visual culture; public policy and health; and medieval and renaissance studies.

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Outside Territory in Paris

Posted on May 4, 2012 by

The conference of Ruti Sela and Mayaan Amir’s ‘Exterritory‘ project in Paris was a really interesting event. Sponsored by the Kadist Foundation and the Evens Foundation, it was held in a remarkable space – Le Comptoir Général. As the rain came down, it was … Continue reading →

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One World, Bordered Planet

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

BBC podcast – with my colleague Martin Pratt.

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