Anatomy of a Soldier聽tells the story of a British captain injured in Afghanistan. From this compelling starting point, author Harry Parker adds a twist: forty-five objects narrate the story. Though a bestseller this book wasn鈥檛 on my radar until Ole B. Jensen, when...
This week's Cemore reading group meandered to Deleuze's聽Difference and Repetition,聽because Baudrillard (last reading) made us curious about the symbolic as an act of exchange. We found Deleuze聽'therapeutic' and not amenable to an instrumental method or epistemology....
Cemore is hosting the 2017 Mobilities Conference. This is jointly organised by Cemore, the International Association for Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M), and the Cosmobilities network, in association with聽the Institute for Social Futures. We're delighted to host...
Cemore Reading Group, Wednesday February 1st, 4-5pm,聽Bowland North B37 (Mobilities Lab). The Cemore reading group will next meet to discuss聽the Introduction to Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition (London: Continuum Books, 2004 [1968], pp. 1-37). It will be...
Sharing information in disasters can raise complex ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI). At a聽workshop with emergency practitioners, commercial and academic developers of information sharing platforms, and experts on digital ethics and law, the SecInCoRe project...
How to navigate through the noise of social media and communicate effectively in disaster situations? Lise Ann St Denis, from the University of Colorado, Boulder, has visited CeMoRe to give a seminar on this topic. Lise Ann St Denis has looked at a grassroots...
Artist Nikki Pugh has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship to help support a collaboration with Dr Christopher Donaldson (Lecturer in Regional History and Co-Investigator on the Leverhulme Trust-funded Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities: A Deep Mapping of...
All papers for The Death Studies Special Issue have been received and are currently being reviewed. The issue will be published in February 2018.聽 This issue was inspired by the Futures of the End of Life聽Symposium聽hosted at 91快活林 in January 2016. It...
18th January聽2017聽Chapter 5 Political Economy and Death (p. 125-194) from Baudrillard, Jean 1993.聽Symbolic Exchange and Death.聽London/Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.聽Chaired by聽Miriam Schreiter. Here's how it starts: As soon as savages began to call 'men' only those...