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Reblogged from geographical imaginations: Many readers will know of various attempts made, several years ago, to map the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme.  One of the most innovative was artist-geographer Trevor Paglen’s Terminal Air project (and the idea of (de)basing the … Continue reading →

Reblogged from The Funambulist: What is wrong with these pictures? Start maybe by looking at them all. The landscapes that they show are beautiful and seem to be almost untouched by humans. The problem is that they are taken where … Continue reading →

Reblogged from ANTHEM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXM0S4n1Hw Iain Sinclair is a leading writer, filmmaker, poet and psychogeographer, renowned for his walks in the borderlands of cities, derelict sites and urban redevelopments. His solitary walks in Middlesbrough and Hartlepool were the focus of a … Continue reading →

Reblogged from AntipodeFoundation.org: On April 15, 2013, two bombs targeting the Boston Marathon exploded on Boylston St, killing three and initiating the United State’s most visible domestic security operation of the decade. Two days later, a fertilizer plant located in … Continue reading →

Reblogged from Centre for Medical Humanities Blog: A podcast of Professor Ian Hacking’s ‘Making Up Autism’ – Inaugural C. L. Oakley Lecture in Medicine and the Arts, University of Leeds, 13 May 2013 – is now available here. Audio recording … Continue reading →

Reblogged from Society and Space – Environment and Planning D: John Agnew reviews Giorgio Mangani’s book Geopolitica del paesaggio: storie e geografie dell’identità marchigiana [Landscape's Geopolitics: Histories and Geographies of Marches' Identity] here. The volume was published in 2012 by Il lavoro editoriale. Read … Continue reading →

Reblogged from geographical imaginations: Books & Ideas has a translated interview with Michel Foucher, ‘A world out of key’, on cartography and geopolitics. Foucher is a former diplomat and now a professional geographer (though no doubt each requires the skills … Continue reading →

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Reblogged from Society and Space – Environment and Planning D: A guest commentary on ‘Palestine and the Google Empire’ by Anat Ben David and Ephraim Lavie (Originally Published in Hebrew in Ha’aretz Daily Newspaper, 13.5.2013. Google’s recognition of “Palestine” (May … Continue reading →

Reblogged from Society and Space – Environment and Planning D: A new online atlas exhibition has been launched by the University of Bristol and can be viewed here. It showcases 33 atlases housed in the UoB Library’s Special Collections.  Spanning the … Continue reading →