Tim Cresswell - Dromologies
•Download as PPT, PDF•
3 likes•1,007 views
keynote speech by Tim Cresswell at The Mobile City conference on Feb. 28 2008 in NAi Rotterdam Netherlands
Report
Share
Report
Share
![Three Ideas ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Recommended
Super-tall and ultra-deep: The Politics of the Elevators
Entire libraries can be filled with volumes exploring the cultures, politics and geographies
of the largely horizontal mobilities and transportation infrastructures that are
intrinsic to urban modernity (highways, railways, subways, public transit and so on).
And yet the recent ‘mobilities turn’ has almost completely neglected the cultural
geographies and politics of vertical transportation within and between the buildings of
vertically-structured cityscapes. Attempting to rectify this neglect, this article seeks,
first, to bring elevator travel centrally into discussions about the cultural politics of
urban space and, second, to connect elevator urbanism to the even more neglected
worlds of elevator-based descent in ultra-deep mining. The article addresses, in turn:
the historical emergence of elevator urbanism; the cultural significance of the elevator
as spectacle; the global ‘race’ in elevator speed; shifts towards the ‘splintering’ of
elevator experiences; experiments with new mobility systems which blend elevators
and automobiles; problems of vertical abandonment; and, finally, the neglected vertical
politics of elevator-based ‘ultra-deep’ mining.
introduction to Postmodernism: An Introduction: globalisation
Globalization has led to the worldwide diffusion of cultural practices and expansion of relations across continents through increased flows of information, people, and capital. While globalization has economic benefits, it also homogenizes local cultures and beliefs, leading some groups to resist through nationalism, fundamentalism, or violence. Art exhibitions now emphasize cosmopolitanism over national origins, reflecting how artists and viewers have more hybrid and plural identities in an interconnected world.
Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities
This document contains summaries and excerpts from various sources related to 19th century digital humanities. It discusses how 19th century digital humanities draws from fields like cultural studies, literature and media studies to explore alternate configurations of technological history through a new materialist and conjectural lens. Several excerpts discuss how literature and art have represented technologies and networks in the 19th century and concepts like reflective design and making in digital humanities.
Ways of seeing: Bauman on strangerhood & the aesthetics of urban research
Open Session 11:15 – 12:45 / Exhibition Hall, University of Leeds, UK: 'Liquid Cities? Exploring Zygmunt Bauman’s Contribution to Urban Studies'.
For a geography of communication
This document summarizes a paper that argues for a "geography of communication" approach within cultural studies. It discusses how representations of space impact spatial production through construction and architecture. The author argues that theories of spatial production must also account for communication and mediation, as all representations occur in space and all spaces are produced through representation. The paper proposes that a "spatial turn" in media studies is needed to analyze how communication produces space and vice versa. It reviews theories on how digital technologies blur boundaries between spaces and discusses the concept of "texture" as a way to study mediations through which spaces are produced.
Urban Inscriptions - Malcolm McCullough
keynote speech by Malcolm McCullough at The Mobile City conference Feb. 28 2008 at NAi Rotterdam, Netherlands
Neomedievalism research proposal
This document discusses renewed interest in the medieval period in both Europe and America. It argues that looking at the Middle Ages allows us to better understand the roots of modern problems and our origins. Examining medieval history is like a doctor examining a patient's childhood to understand their current health issues. However, some question if this interest in medievalism is just a postmodern fascination or fulfills a deeper need to reconnect with spirituality in a post-Enlightenment world. The document also discusses how the medieval period can provide a framework for rethinking history and identity outside of linear, progressive models.
The Idea of Progress
This document discusses different views of progress throughout history. It begins by describing how early societies viewed progress as either a decline from a past golden age or a path towards salvation. It then discusses Eastern religious views that see the human world as an illusion. It describes the concept of eternal cycles of rise and fall. The document then outlines different perspectives on progress, including the idea that technological and scientific advances drive moral and physical improvements for humanity. It also discusses critiques of the idea of inevitable progress and debates around the relationship between evolution and progress.
Recommended
Super-tall and ultra-deep: The Politics of the Elevators
Entire libraries can be filled with volumes exploring the cultures, politics and geographies
of the largely horizontal mobilities and transportation infrastructures that are
intrinsic to urban modernity (highways, railways, subways, public transit and so on).
And yet the recent ‘mobilities turn’ has almost completely neglected the cultural
geographies and politics of vertical transportation within and between the buildings of
vertically-structured cityscapes. Attempting to rectify this neglect, this article seeks,
first, to bring elevator travel centrally into discussions about the cultural politics of
urban space and, second, to connect elevator urbanism to the even more neglected
worlds of elevator-based descent in ultra-deep mining. The article addresses, in turn:
the historical emergence of elevator urbanism; the cultural significance of the elevator
as spectacle; the global ‘race’ in elevator speed; shifts towards the ‘splintering’ of
elevator experiences; experiments with new mobility systems which blend elevators
and automobiles; problems of vertical abandonment; and, finally, the neglected vertical
politics of elevator-based ‘ultra-deep’ mining.
introduction to Postmodernism: An Introduction: globalisation
Globalization has led to the worldwide diffusion of cultural practices and expansion of relations across continents through increased flows of information, people, and capital. While globalization has economic benefits, it also homogenizes local cultures and beliefs, leading some groups to resist through nationalism, fundamentalism, or violence. Art exhibitions now emphasize cosmopolitanism over national origins, reflecting how artists and viewers have more hybrid and plural identities in an interconnected world.
Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities
This document contains summaries and excerpts from various sources related to 19th century digital humanities. It discusses how 19th century digital humanities draws from fields like cultural studies, literature and media studies to explore alternate configurations of technological history through a new materialist and conjectural lens. Several excerpts discuss how literature and art have represented technologies and networks in the 19th century and concepts like reflective design and making in digital humanities.
Ways of seeing: Bauman on strangerhood & the aesthetics of urban research
Open Session 11:15 – 12:45 / Exhibition Hall, University of Leeds, UK: 'Liquid Cities? Exploring Zygmunt Bauman’s Contribution to Urban Studies'.
For a geography of communication
This document summarizes a paper that argues for a "geography of communication" approach within cultural studies. It discusses how representations of space impact spatial production through construction and architecture. The author argues that theories of spatial production must also account for communication and mediation, as all representations occur in space and all spaces are produced through representation. The paper proposes that a "spatial turn" in media studies is needed to analyze how communication produces space and vice versa. It reviews theories on how digital technologies blur boundaries between spaces and discusses the concept of "texture" as a way to study mediations through which spaces are produced.
Urban Inscriptions - Malcolm McCullough
keynote speech by Malcolm McCullough at The Mobile City conference Feb. 28 2008 at NAi Rotterdam, Netherlands
Neomedievalism research proposal
This document discusses renewed interest in the medieval period in both Europe and America. It argues that looking at the Middle Ages allows us to better understand the roots of modern problems and our origins. Examining medieval history is like a doctor examining a patient's childhood to understand their current health issues. However, some question if this interest in medievalism is just a postmodern fascination or fulfills a deeper need to reconnect with spirituality in a post-Enlightenment world. The document also discusses how the medieval period can provide a framework for rethinking history and identity outside of linear, progressive models.
The Idea of Progress
This document discusses different views of progress throughout history. It begins by describing how early societies viewed progress as either a decline from a past golden age or a path towards salvation. It then discusses Eastern religious views that see the human world as an illusion. It describes the concept of eternal cycles of rise and fall. The document then outlines different perspectives on progress, including the idea that technological and scientific advances drive moral and physical improvements for humanity. It also discusses critiques of the idea of inevitable progress and debates around the relationship between evolution and progress.
Massey global sense of place
This document discusses the concept of "time-space compression" and provides a critique of how it is often understood. It argues that time-space compression is experienced differently by different social groups, with some groups having more control and power over mobility than others. It calls for a more nuanced, socially differentiated understanding of time-space compression that acknowledges these unequal power dynamics. A progressive sense of place needs to be developed that fits with globalized times but does not promote reactionary views.
Stephen graham lucy hewitt cities and verticality ppt
The document discusses the need for critical urban research to adopt a more three-dimensional, "vertical" perspective in line with the radical vertical extensions of modern built environments. It highlights four main themes: 1) the cultural politics of the aerial view in urban planning, 2) the vertical dimensions of building up and down through structures like skyscrapers and underground complexes, 3) the new "military urbanism" dominated by vertical surveillance technologies, and 4) possibilities for vertical forms of counterpolitics and democratic urbanism. The document calls for connecting analyses of the vertical dimensions of cities to broader social, political, and ecological contexts of urban life.
145The Drama Review 46, 2 (T174), Summer 2002. Copyright 2.docx
145
The Drama Review 46, 2 (T174), Summer 2002. Copyright 2002
New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Performance Studies
Interventions and Radical Research1
Dwight Conquergood
According to Michel de Certeau, “what the map cuts up, the story cuts across”
(1984:129). This pithy phrase evokes a postcolonial world crisscrossed by trans-
national narratives, diaspora af� liations, and, especially, the movement and mul-
tiple migrations of people, sometimes voluntary, but often economically propelled
and politically coerced. In order to keep pace with such a world, we now think
of “place” as a heavily traf� cked intersection, a port of call and exchange, instead
of a circumscribed territory. A boundary is more like a membrane than a wall.
In current cultural theory, “location” is imagined as an itinerary instead of a � xed
point. Our understanding of “local context” expands to encompass the historical,
dynamic, often traumatic, movements of people, ideas, images, commodities, and
capital. It is no longer easy to sort out the local from the global: transnational
circulations of images get reworked on the ground and redeployed for local,
tactical struggles. And global � ows simultaneously are encumbered and energized
by these local makeovers. We now are keenly aware that the “local” is a leaky,
contingent construction, and that global forces are taken up, struggled over, and
refracted for site-speci� c purposes. The best of the new cultural theory distin-
guishes itself from apolitical celebrations of mobility, � ow, and easy border cross-
ings by carefully tracking the transitive circuits of power and the political
economic pressure points that monitor the migrations of people, channel the
circulations of meanings, and stratify access to resources (see Gilroy 1994; Ap-
padurai 1996; Lavie and Swedenburg 1996; Clifford 1997; di Leonardo 1998;
Joseph 1999; Ong 1999). We now ask: For whom is the border a friction-free
zone of entitled access, a frontier of possibility? Who travels con� dently across
borders, and who gets questioned, detained, interrogated, and strip-searched at
the border (see Taylor 1999)?
But de Certeau’s aphorism, “what the map cuts up, the story cuts across,” also
points to transgressive travel between two different domains of knowledge: one
of� cial, objective, and abstract—“the map”; the other one practical, embodied,
and popular—“the story.” This promiscuous traf� c between different ways of
knowing carries the most radical promise of performance studies research. Per-
formance studies struggles to open the space between analysis and action, and to
pull the pin on the binary opposition between theory and practice. This embrace
146 Dwight Conquergood
of different ways of knowing is radical because it cuts to the root of how knowl-
edge is organized in the academy.
The dominant way of knowing in the academy is that of empirical observation
and critical analysis from a distanced perspective: “.
Which Way to Utopia?: Anarchist Spatial Theory
The document provides an overview of anarchist theories and practices of space through a discussion of rural and urban spaces. It examines the enclosure of commonly held rural land and the rationalization of medieval cities. It then discusses Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's vision of a decentralized federation and opposition to territorialism. Finally, it outlines Joseph Déjacque's utopian vision of the future "Humanisphere" - a unified global city made possible through advances in transportation and communication.
Mobile cities
This document discusses how cities are hubs of mobility and circulation at various scales, from individual to global. It argues that modern planning envisioned mobility and transport improving urban life, but the reality is more complex. While elites benefit from new hypermobile lifestyles, the majority have less control over their mobility and may face barriers. Cities are central nodes in global networks of finance, trade, migration and communication, but this unevenly impacts populations. Mobility is now commodified and some groups are forcibly immobilized as a form of social control. Overall mobility patterns reinforce uneven development within the unequal geographies of global capitalism.
Cursed Constantinople – Istanbul. Part I: the Burden of the Past, the Ominous...
Cursed Constantinople – Istanbul. Part I: the Burden of the Past, the Ominous...Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
First published on 29th May 2021 here: https://megalommatis.wordpress.com/2021/05/29/cursed-constantinople-istanbul-part-i-the-burden-of-the-past-the-ominous-location-and-the-original-name-as-explicit-imprecation/
I am afraid that, for Christians and Muslims alike, for Turks and Greeks equally, historical truth is far bitterer, far direr, and far darker than they can even imagine. And when it comes to the Mediterranean Sea’s incomparably greater city today, quite unfortunately, its true greatness is specified in terms of sinister failure, ominous calamity, and obnoxious destruction.
In brief, Constantinople – Istanbul should have never existed. And, if by an erratic coincidence and abominable misfortune, few demented people constructed a town in that location, this agglomeration of edifices should always remain a sly passageway, a furtive station, and a basis for further expeditions or eventually a fated porthmus (strait; https://logeion.uchicago.edu/porthmos).
Either in the Mediterranean or worldwide, there was never a coastal city that became the capital of an empire in historical, pre-Renaissance times, except that city was the metropolis of a maritime realm (like Carthage) or the headquarters of a commercial network (like Alexandria). It is quite indicative: Alexandria’s importance in the trade routes between East and West (i.e. the silk, spice and frankincense trade routes across lands, deserts and seas) increased when Octavian invaded the Ptolemaic capital (30 BCE) and Alexandria ceased to be the capital of a kingdom.dystopia
The document summarizes and compares the landscapes depicted in the dystopian novels Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. In Brave New World, the landscape is designed for distraction and pleasure to keep citizens pacified, featuring entertainment complexes and synthetic colors. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the oppressive government uses architecture and propaganda posters to assert control, depicted as towering, imposing buildings and a bleak gray landscape with only colorful Big Brother posters standing out. The document analyzes how these different landscapes are used as tools of repression to subjugate citizens in the two novels.
How to Jumpstart an Interstellar Civilization
Paper presented at the 100 Year Starship Symposium in Houston, September 2013.
Abstract
Voyager 1 has barely left the solar system. Twelve people have walked on the Moon. Twenty-four got to lunar orbit, 530 to Earth orbit. Our Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity may be roving on Mars but we are far from being a solar civilization. Worse, seven billion of us on Earth are struggling to coalesce into a single planetary civilization. So is thinking seriously about how to become an interstellar civilization preposterously premature?
We make a case that jumpstarting an interstellar civilization could not be timelier: it is one of our best insurance policies against existential risk and a fast track out of the current sub-planetary civilization quagmire. We then proceed to look at what it would take to initiate an interstellar jump sequence in practice. We offer a qualitative assessment of cultural, technological, and governance transitions we would need to orchestrate, and explore how the interstellar community itself would need to evolve to accelerate these transitions.
Our proposals include launching an Interstellar Art Academy to inject a steady stream of interstellar edutainment into global culture; participating in the world’s global public policy and entrepreneurial fora to put interstellar and space development goals on the global agenda; facilitating a roadmapping process among major terrestrial industries to move space commercialization into space industrialization; designing an online game to simulate governance models to underpin interstellar expansion and, finally, turning the interstellar community of thousands into an epic volunteer organization of one million.
Humans vs westworld acat 2017
Humans vs. Westworld: A Cultural Science Approach
By John Hartley
What does it mean to be human? What does technology have to do with that? And how do we know where “we” stop and the non-human world – natural and artificial – begins? These questions are ever more urgent as human action changes the natural environment, while human labour is increasingly automated. What will become of us when robots achieve consciousness? The answers seem to depend much more on culture than on technology; and popular speculative fiction seems to be well ahead of formal scholarship in thinking them through. Using a cultural science framework, this presentation looks at how the problem of the human is imagined in two current hit TV series – Westworld (USA) and Humans (UK). What is at stake in their very different answers to the same troubling questions?
Subterranean urban politics: Insurgency, sanctuary, exploration and tourism
A presentation, drawing on my book 'Vertical', exploring the politics of the urban subterranean. The wide-ranging discussion explores the subterranean as a source of class threats and insurrections; as a sanctuary; as a space of exploration; and as a site for tourism.
2 SPACE POWER CINEMA
This document provides an overview of topics to be covered in a class on cities, everyday life, and space as relationships. The topics include:
- Why cities are important in today's world with most people living in cities
- Studying cities and everyday life through various academic lenses
- How space is a social and political construction that reproduces power dynamics
- Different practices of mapping space, from traditional to more creative/experiential approaches
- Analyzing cities through film and how film has both represented and shaped perspectives of urban areas
- An assignment involving collaborative group work to cognitively map an area through non-traditional means.
Postmodernism in english_literature
This document provides an overview of postmodernism in English literature. It begins by discussing how postmodernism emerged in the mid-1980s as an area of academic study and is difficult to define as it appears across many disciplines. It then compares postmodernism to modernism, noting they both reject boundaries between high and low art forms and emphasize fragmentation. However, postmodernism differs in that it celebrates rather than laments fragmentation. The document also discusses key characteristics of postmodern literature and how it represents a break from 19th century realism similar to modernism but with a greater emphasis on parody and questioning distinctions between genres.
Mumford
Lewis Mumford was an American historian, philosopher, sociologist and prominent writer and critic of the urban planning of the 20th century. He was born in 1895 in New York and studied at City College of New York. He wrote extensively about cities and technology and their impact on society. He received several honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and National Medal of Arts. Mumford was a critic of urban sprawl and advocated for organic urban planning. He opposed Robert Moses' highway plans in New York City. Mumford also criticized the World Trade Center and America's overreliance on automobiles.
Glocal Warning
Under the banner of Cultural Geographies, Globalisation and Nationalism this lecture critically examines the effects of the new neo-liberal world economic order.
Neoliberalism supports free markets, free trade, and decentralized decision-making. Broadly speaking, neoliberalism seeks to transfer control of the economy from state to the private sector. This is a particularly timely debate in light of the current global collapse of neoliberalism.
Globalisation:
The meaning is not always clear it has something to do with the idea that we all live in one world, in what ways exactly, and is the idea valid?
Accepted that globalisation exists, the world has become financially and materially interdependent.
Debates are more likely to be about the form of globalisation, how it came into being and where it will lead.
Two major issues of globalisation are communication as the driving force of social change, and increasing dependence on mobility.
I will also deal with a few of the difficulties which appear in the course of the globalisation process and look at the accompanying discussions surrounding increasingly global cultural spaces as they concern artistic practice and the cultural industries.
I will consider the idea that the art world knows no synthetic boundaries; that it realises an actually existing globalisation and that art is the vehicle for the creolisation, hybridity and mixing of cultures that challenge the conventional in aesthetics and the hegemonic in politics.
I also want to consider the relevance of nationalism as the sites of contemporary art diversify away from the traditional metropolitan centres such as London, Berlin, or New York.
Of Other Spaces
Being primarily a visual learner, I find that breaking information down and combining words with images helps me to learn and remember things more effectively. I made this ppt. to help me digest Foucault\'s \'Of Other Spaces\'. I hope it\'s of use to others.
John Urry - Does Mobility have a future?
Department of Sociology/CRESI seminar 29 April 2010.
n examination of whether and to what degree the increasingly mobile twentieth century may not continue into the foreseeable future. Is mass movement a historically contingent period of human history?
John Urry is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University and is Author/editor of Mobilities(2007), Aeromobilities (2009), After the Car (2009), Mobile Lives (2010), Mobile Methods (2011), Climate Change and Society (2011).
Globalization: A Threat to Cultural Diversity?
Globalization threatens cultural diversity by causing confusion as objects, people and ideas are exchanged between cultures. This leads people to feel they are losing their cultural identity and traditional references. While globalization is accelerating a common future, this future cannot belong to any one culture but must be shared. The document discusses the need for a Universal Human Nation where cultural differences are valued rather than marginalized or eliminated, as is the case with the current destructive process of globalization led by banks and multinationals. The task is to make people aware that cultural differences and human values are more important than money or competition in shaping this shared future.
Net locality
The document discusses the concepts of locative media arts and net locality. It describes how location-based services and social networks have integrated location data, spatializing search and social interactions. Key aspects of locative media arts include experiential/emotional mapping, performative aspects like mobile narratives and games, and goals of documentation, expression, and collaboration. The document also examines issues of how locative media can be situated within broader social and political contexts.
Jane knight test
This document discusses the terms modernism and postmodernism. It begins by noting that postmodernism is a difficult term to define as it appears across many disciplines and time periods. It then explains that postmodernism emerged from modernism. Modernism rejected Victorian artistic standards and emphasized subjectivity, fragmented forms, and self-consciousness. Postmodernism similarly rejects boundaries and embraces fragmentation, but does not see fragmentation as tragic like modernism. It also celebrates nonsense rather than trying to find meaning through art. The document later discusses how modernism and postmodernism relate to different phases of capitalism.
Rownowaga 1 uk-4-7
1) The document discusses the transformation of cities and urban spaces as a result of globalization and increased mobility. While cities are decentralizing and sprawling, certain areas become more uniform and centralized around functions like tourism, commerce, and transportation.
2) As cities decentralize, historical centers take on museum-like functions for tourists and wealthy residents while industrial and cultural activities move outward. However, new forms of recentralization also occur as global communication technologies paradoxically contribute to both increased mobility and new forms of isolation.
3) Finding a balance between the sense of place and freedom of movement in urban spaces will require rethinking concepts of the city and housing. It also demands efforts to reverse growing inequality and reconnect people
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
More Related Content
Similar to Tim Cresswell - Dromologies
Massey global sense of place
This document discusses the concept of "time-space compression" and provides a critique of how it is often understood. It argues that time-space compression is experienced differently by different social groups, with some groups having more control and power over mobility than others. It calls for a more nuanced, socially differentiated understanding of time-space compression that acknowledges these unequal power dynamics. A progressive sense of place needs to be developed that fits with globalized times but does not promote reactionary views.
Stephen graham lucy hewitt cities and verticality ppt
The document discusses the need for critical urban research to adopt a more three-dimensional, "vertical" perspective in line with the radical vertical extensions of modern built environments. It highlights four main themes: 1) the cultural politics of the aerial view in urban planning, 2) the vertical dimensions of building up and down through structures like skyscrapers and underground complexes, 3) the new "military urbanism" dominated by vertical surveillance technologies, and 4) possibilities for vertical forms of counterpolitics and democratic urbanism. The document calls for connecting analyses of the vertical dimensions of cities to broader social, political, and ecological contexts of urban life.
145The Drama Review 46, 2 (T174), Summer 2002. Copyright 2.docx
145
The Drama Review 46, 2 (T174), Summer 2002. Copyright 2002
New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Performance Studies
Interventions and Radical Research1
Dwight Conquergood
According to Michel de Certeau, “what the map cuts up, the story cuts across”
(1984:129). This pithy phrase evokes a postcolonial world crisscrossed by trans-
national narratives, diaspora af� liations, and, especially, the movement and mul-
tiple migrations of people, sometimes voluntary, but often economically propelled
and politically coerced. In order to keep pace with such a world, we now think
of “place” as a heavily traf� cked intersection, a port of call and exchange, instead
of a circumscribed territory. A boundary is more like a membrane than a wall.
In current cultural theory, “location” is imagined as an itinerary instead of a � xed
point. Our understanding of “local context” expands to encompass the historical,
dynamic, often traumatic, movements of people, ideas, images, commodities, and
capital. It is no longer easy to sort out the local from the global: transnational
circulations of images get reworked on the ground and redeployed for local,
tactical struggles. And global � ows simultaneously are encumbered and energized
by these local makeovers. We now are keenly aware that the “local” is a leaky,
contingent construction, and that global forces are taken up, struggled over, and
refracted for site-speci� c purposes. The best of the new cultural theory distin-
guishes itself from apolitical celebrations of mobility, � ow, and easy border cross-
ings by carefully tracking the transitive circuits of power and the political
economic pressure points that monitor the migrations of people, channel the
circulations of meanings, and stratify access to resources (see Gilroy 1994; Ap-
padurai 1996; Lavie and Swedenburg 1996; Clifford 1997; di Leonardo 1998;
Joseph 1999; Ong 1999). We now ask: For whom is the border a friction-free
zone of entitled access, a frontier of possibility? Who travels con� dently across
borders, and who gets questioned, detained, interrogated, and strip-searched at
the border (see Taylor 1999)?
But de Certeau’s aphorism, “what the map cuts up, the story cuts across,” also
points to transgressive travel between two different domains of knowledge: one
of� cial, objective, and abstract—“the map”; the other one practical, embodied,
and popular—“the story.” This promiscuous traf� c between different ways of
knowing carries the most radical promise of performance studies research. Per-
formance studies struggles to open the space between analysis and action, and to
pull the pin on the binary opposition between theory and practice. This embrace
146 Dwight Conquergood
of different ways of knowing is radical because it cuts to the root of how knowl-
edge is organized in the academy.
The dominant way of knowing in the academy is that of empirical observation
and critical analysis from a distanced perspective: “.
Which Way to Utopia?: Anarchist Spatial Theory
The document provides an overview of anarchist theories and practices of space through a discussion of rural and urban spaces. It examines the enclosure of commonly held rural land and the rationalization of medieval cities. It then discusses Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's vision of a decentralized federation and opposition to territorialism. Finally, it outlines Joseph Déjacque's utopian vision of the future "Humanisphere" - a unified global city made possible through advances in transportation and communication.
Mobile cities
This document discusses how cities are hubs of mobility and circulation at various scales, from individual to global. It argues that modern planning envisioned mobility and transport improving urban life, but the reality is more complex. While elites benefit from new hypermobile lifestyles, the majority have less control over their mobility and may face barriers. Cities are central nodes in global networks of finance, trade, migration and communication, but this unevenly impacts populations. Mobility is now commodified and some groups are forcibly immobilized as a form of social control. Overall mobility patterns reinforce uneven development within the unequal geographies of global capitalism.
Cursed Constantinople – Istanbul. Part I: the Burden of the Past, the Ominous...
Cursed Constantinople – Istanbul. Part I: the Burden of the Past, the Ominous...Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
First published on 29th May 2021 here: https://megalommatis.wordpress.com/2021/05/29/cursed-constantinople-istanbul-part-i-the-burden-of-the-past-the-ominous-location-and-the-original-name-as-explicit-imprecation/
I am afraid that, for Christians and Muslims alike, for Turks and Greeks equally, historical truth is far bitterer, far direr, and far darker than they can even imagine. And when it comes to the Mediterranean Sea’s incomparably greater city today, quite unfortunately, its true greatness is specified in terms of sinister failure, ominous calamity, and obnoxious destruction.
In brief, Constantinople – Istanbul should have never existed. And, if by an erratic coincidence and abominable misfortune, few demented people constructed a town in that location, this agglomeration of edifices should always remain a sly passageway, a furtive station, and a basis for further expeditions or eventually a fated porthmus (strait; https://logeion.uchicago.edu/porthmos).
Either in the Mediterranean or worldwide, there was never a coastal city that became the capital of an empire in historical, pre-Renaissance times, except that city was the metropolis of a maritime realm (like Carthage) or the headquarters of a commercial network (like Alexandria). It is quite indicative: Alexandria’s importance in the trade routes between East and West (i.e. the silk, spice and frankincense trade routes across lands, deserts and seas) increased when Octavian invaded the Ptolemaic capital (30 BCE) and Alexandria ceased to be the capital of a kingdom.dystopia
The document summarizes and compares the landscapes depicted in the dystopian novels Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. In Brave New World, the landscape is designed for distraction and pleasure to keep citizens pacified, featuring entertainment complexes and synthetic colors. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the oppressive government uses architecture and propaganda posters to assert control, depicted as towering, imposing buildings and a bleak gray landscape with only colorful Big Brother posters standing out. The document analyzes how these different landscapes are used as tools of repression to subjugate citizens in the two novels.
How to Jumpstart an Interstellar Civilization
Paper presented at the 100 Year Starship Symposium in Houston, September 2013.
Abstract
Voyager 1 has barely left the solar system. Twelve people have walked on the Moon. Twenty-four got to lunar orbit, 530 to Earth orbit. Our Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity may be roving on Mars but we are far from being a solar civilization. Worse, seven billion of us on Earth are struggling to coalesce into a single planetary civilization. So is thinking seriously about how to become an interstellar civilization preposterously premature?
We make a case that jumpstarting an interstellar civilization could not be timelier: it is one of our best insurance policies against existential risk and a fast track out of the current sub-planetary civilization quagmire. We then proceed to look at what it would take to initiate an interstellar jump sequence in practice. We offer a qualitative assessment of cultural, technological, and governance transitions we would need to orchestrate, and explore how the interstellar community itself would need to evolve to accelerate these transitions.
Our proposals include launching an Interstellar Art Academy to inject a steady stream of interstellar edutainment into global culture; participating in the world’s global public policy and entrepreneurial fora to put interstellar and space development goals on the global agenda; facilitating a roadmapping process among major terrestrial industries to move space commercialization into space industrialization; designing an online game to simulate governance models to underpin interstellar expansion and, finally, turning the interstellar community of thousands into an epic volunteer organization of one million.
Humans vs westworld acat 2017
Humans vs. Westworld: A Cultural Science Approach
By John Hartley
What does it mean to be human? What does technology have to do with that? And how do we know where “we” stop and the non-human world – natural and artificial – begins? These questions are ever more urgent as human action changes the natural environment, while human labour is increasingly automated. What will become of us when robots achieve consciousness? The answers seem to depend much more on culture than on technology; and popular speculative fiction seems to be well ahead of formal scholarship in thinking them through. Using a cultural science framework, this presentation looks at how the problem of the human is imagined in two current hit TV series – Westworld (USA) and Humans (UK). What is at stake in their very different answers to the same troubling questions?
Subterranean urban politics: Insurgency, sanctuary, exploration and tourism
A presentation, drawing on my book 'Vertical', exploring the politics of the urban subterranean. The wide-ranging discussion explores the subterranean as a source of class threats and insurrections; as a sanctuary; as a space of exploration; and as a site for tourism.
2 SPACE POWER CINEMA
This document provides an overview of topics to be covered in a class on cities, everyday life, and space as relationships. The topics include:
- Why cities are important in today's world with most people living in cities
- Studying cities and everyday life through various academic lenses
- How space is a social and political construction that reproduces power dynamics
- Different practices of mapping space, from traditional to more creative/experiential approaches
- Analyzing cities through film and how film has both represented and shaped perspectives of urban areas
- An assignment involving collaborative group work to cognitively map an area through non-traditional means.
Postmodernism in english_literature
This document provides an overview of postmodernism in English literature. It begins by discussing how postmodernism emerged in the mid-1980s as an area of academic study and is difficult to define as it appears across many disciplines. It then compares postmodernism to modernism, noting they both reject boundaries between high and low art forms and emphasize fragmentation. However, postmodernism differs in that it celebrates rather than laments fragmentation. The document also discusses key characteristics of postmodern literature and how it represents a break from 19th century realism similar to modernism but with a greater emphasis on parody and questioning distinctions between genres.
Mumford
Lewis Mumford was an American historian, philosopher, sociologist and prominent writer and critic of the urban planning of the 20th century. He was born in 1895 in New York and studied at City College of New York. He wrote extensively about cities and technology and their impact on society. He received several honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and National Medal of Arts. Mumford was a critic of urban sprawl and advocated for organic urban planning. He opposed Robert Moses' highway plans in New York City. Mumford also criticized the World Trade Center and America's overreliance on automobiles.
Glocal Warning
Under the banner of Cultural Geographies, Globalisation and Nationalism this lecture critically examines the effects of the new neo-liberal world economic order.
Neoliberalism supports free markets, free trade, and decentralized decision-making. Broadly speaking, neoliberalism seeks to transfer control of the economy from state to the private sector. This is a particularly timely debate in light of the current global collapse of neoliberalism.
Globalisation:
The meaning is not always clear it has something to do with the idea that we all live in one world, in what ways exactly, and is the idea valid?
Accepted that globalisation exists, the world has become financially and materially interdependent.
Debates are more likely to be about the form of globalisation, how it came into being and where it will lead.
Two major issues of globalisation are communication as the driving force of social change, and increasing dependence on mobility.
I will also deal with a few of the difficulties which appear in the course of the globalisation process and look at the accompanying discussions surrounding increasingly global cultural spaces as they concern artistic practice and the cultural industries.
I will consider the idea that the art world knows no synthetic boundaries; that it realises an actually existing globalisation and that art is the vehicle for the creolisation, hybridity and mixing of cultures that challenge the conventional in aesthetics and the hegemonic in politics.
I also want to consider the relevance of nationalism as the sites of contemporary art diversify away from the traditional metropolitan centres such as London, Berlin, or New York.
Of Other Spaces
Being primarily a visual learner, I find that breaking information down and combining words with images helps me to learn and remember things more effectively. I made this ppt. to help me digest Foucault\'s \'Of Other Spaces\'. I hope it\'s of use to others.
John Urry - Does Mobility have a future?
Department of Sociology/CRESI seminar 29 April 2010.
n examination of whether and to what degree the increasingly mobile twentieth century may not continue into the foreseeable future. Is mass movement a historically contingent period of human history?
John Urry is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University and is Author/editor of Mobilities(2007), Aeromobilities (2009), After the Car (2009), Mobile Lives (2010), Mobile Methods (2011), Climate Change and Society (2011).
Globalization: A Threat to Cultural Diversity?
Globalization threatens cultural diversity by causing confusion as objects, people and ideas are exchanged between cultures. This leads people to feel they are losing their cultural identity and traditional references. While globalization is accelerating a common future, this future cannot belong to any one culture but must be shared. The document discusses the need for a Universal Human Nation where cultural differences are valued rather than marginalized or eliminated, as is the case with the current destructive process of globalization led by banks and multinationals. The task is to make people aware that cultural differences and human values are more important than money or competition in shaping this shared future.
Net locality
The document discusses the concepts of locative media arts and net locality. It describes how location-based services and social networks have integrated location data, spatializing search and social interactions. Key aspects of locative media arts include experiential/emotional mapping, performative aspects like mobile narratives and games, and goals of documentation, expression, and collaboration. The document also examines issues of how locative media can be situated within broader social and political contexts.
Jane knight test
This document discusses the terms modernism and postmodernism. It begins by noting that postmodernism is a difficult term to define as it appears across many disciplines and time periods. It then explains that postmodernism emerged from modernism. Modernism rejected Victorian artistic standards and emphasized subjectivity, fragmented forms, and self-consciousness. Postmodernism similarly rejects boundaries and embraces fragmentation, but does not see fragmentation as tragic like modernism. It also celebrates nonsense rather than trying to find meaning through art. The document later discusses how modernism and postmodernism relate to different phases of capitalism.
Rownowaga 1 uk-4-7
1) The document discusses the transformation of cities and urban spaces as a result of globalization and increased mobility. While cities are decentralizing and sprawling, certain areas become more uniform and centralized around functions like tourism, commerce, and transportation.
2) As cities decentralize, historical centers take on museum-like functions for tourists and wealthy residents while industrial and cultural activities move outward. However, new forms of recentralization also occur as global communication technologies paradoxically contribute to both increased mobility and new forms of isolation.
3) Finding a balance between the sense of place and freedom of movement in urban spaces will require rethinking concepts of the city and housing. It also demands efforts to reverse growing inequality and reconnect people
Similar to Tim Cresswell - Dromologies (20)
Stephen graham lucy hewitt cities and verticality ppt
Stephen graham lucy hewitt cities and verticality ppt
145The Drama Review 46, 2 (T174), Summer 2002. Copyright 2.docx
145The Drama Review 46, 2 (T174), Summer 2002. Copyright 2.docx
Cursed Constantinople – Istanbul. Part I: the Burden of the Past, the Ominous...
Cursed Constantinople – Istanbul. Part I: the Burden of the Past, the Ominous...
Subterranean urban politics: Insurgency, sanctuary, exploration and tourism
Subterranean urban politics: Insurgency, sanctuary, exploration and tourism
Recently uploaded
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Columbus Data & Analytics Wednesdays - June 2024
Columbus Data & Analytics Wednesdays, June 2024 with Maria Copot 20
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracy
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
Digital Marketing Trends in 2024 | Guide for Staying Ahead
https://www.wask.co/ebooks/digital-marketing-trends-in-2024
Feeling lost in the digital marketing whirlwind of 2024? Technology is changing, consumer habits are evolving, and staying ahead of the curve feels like a never-ending pursuit. This e-book is your compass. Dive into actionable insights to handle the complexities of modern marketing. From hyper-personalization to the power of user-generated content, learn how to build long-term relationships with your audience and unlock the secrets to success in the ever-shifting digital landscape.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and Milvus
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Ocean lotus Threat actors project by John Sitima 2024 (1).pptx
Ocean Lotus cyber threat actors represent a sophisticated, persistent, and politically motivated group that poses a significant risk to organizations and individuals in the Southeast Asian region. Their continuous evolution and adaptability underscore the need for robust cybersecurity measures and international cooperation to identify and mitigate the threats posed by such advanced persistent threat groups.
dbms calicut university B. sc Cs 4th sem.pdf
Its a seminar ppt on database management system using sql
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slack
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
Choosing The Best AWS Service For Your Website + API.pptx
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Trusted Execution Environment for Decentralized Process Mining
Presentation of the paper "Trusted Execution Environment for Decentralized Process Mining" given during the CAiSE 2024 Conference in Cyprus on June 7, 2024.
Letter and Document Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Sol...
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on automated letter generation for Bonterra Impact Management using Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
Interested in deploying letter generation automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
leewayhertz.com-AI in predictive maintenance Use cases technologies benefits ...
Predictive maintenance is a proactive approach that anticipates equipment failures before they happen. At the forefront of this innovative strategy is Artificial Intelligence (AI), which brings unprecedented precision and efficiency. AI in predictive maintenance is transforming industries by reducing downtime, minimizing costs, and enhancing productivity.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success Story
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
AWS Cloud Cost Optimization Presentation.pptx
This presentation provides valuable insights into effective cost-saving techniques on AWS. Learn how to optimize your AWS resources by rightsizing, increasing elasticity, picking the right storage class, and choosing the best pricing model. Additionally, discover essential governance mechanisms to ensure continuous cost efficiency. Whether you are new to AWS or an experienced user, this presentation provides clear and practical tips to help you reduce your cloud costs and get the most out of your budget.
Recently uploaded (20)
Deep Dive: AI-Powered Marketing to Get More Leads and Customers with HyperGro...
Deep Dive: AI-Powered Marketing to Get More Leads and Customers with HyperGro...
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracy
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracy
Digital Marketing Trends in 2024 | Guide for Staying Ahead
Digital Marketing Trends in 2024 | Guide for Staying Ahead
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and Milvus
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and Milvus
Ocean lotus Threat actors project by John Sitima 2024 (1).pptx
Ocean lotus Threat actors project by John Sitima 2024 (1).pptx
Overcoming the PLG Trap: Lessons from Canva's Head of Sales & Head of EMEA Da...
Overcoming the PLG Trap: Lessons from Canva's Head of Sales & Head of EMEA Da...
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slack
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slack
Choosing The Best AWS Service For Your Website + API.pptx
Choosing The Best AWS Service For Your Website + API.pptx
Trusted Execution Environment for Decentralized Process Mining
Trusted Execution Environment for Decentralized Process Mining
WeTestAthens: Postman's AI & Automation Techniques
WeTestAthens: Postman's AI & Automation Techniques
Letter and Document Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Sol...
Letter and Document Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Sol...
leewayhertz.com-AI in predictive maintenance Use cases technologies benefits ...
leewayhertz.com-AI in predictive maintenance Use cases technologies benefits ...
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success Story
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success Story
Tim Cresswell - Dromologies
- 1. Dromologies: Towards a Politics of Mobility Tim Cresswell Department of Geography Royal Holloway, University of London
- 15. From Topology to Dromology - Rfid
- 17. Suburban Train Arriving in Paris (1915) Gino Severini