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The History of Political Thought in the Age of Ideologies, 1789-1989 – Queen Mary, 31 May-1 June 2018. Free but registration required. Historians of political ideas since the late 1960s have advocated focussing on authorial intentions instead of tracing the … Continue reading →

Katharyne Mitchell, Making Workers: Radical Geographies of Education – now out with Pluto books. As globalisation transforms the organisation of society, so too is its impact felt in the classroom. Katharyne Mitchell argues that schools are spaces in which neoliberal … Continue reading →

Originally posted on pip thornton art & research:
I haven’t always written about algorithms and digital capitalism, but I have previously used poetry as a lens through which to expose the politics and asymmetries of technology and space. The Meaning…

Interactive visualization of Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (1656) The painting is in the Prado in Madrid – I was there just last week. The Prado website has some more information. Thanks to Melissa Pawelski for the link.  

Chris Barrett, Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety – now published by Oxford University Press in their Early Modern Literary Geographies series. The Cartographic Revolution in the Renaissance made maps newly precise, newly affordable, and newly … Continue reading →

David Bissell, Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities – now out with MIT Press We spend much of our lives in transit to and from work. Although we might dismiss our daily commute as a wearying slog, we … Continue reading →