‘Staying with the Trouble’ insists on working, playing and thinking in multispecies cosmopolitics in the face of the killing of entire ways of being on earth that characterise the age cunningly called 'now' and the place called 'here.' Donna Haraway I am the teaching assistant on a VERY interesting course for third year geography students... Continue Reading →
Justice or Just us? “Data Justice” and the big questions #Manchester
The newspapers and webfeeds are full of stories of the (un)intended consequences of the increased “datafication” of society, and the ways in which people are sorted, silenced and discriminated against by ‘algorithms.’ It is rich terrain for academics and activists (the two beasts need not be totally distinct), and today at the University of Manchester... Continue Reading →
#TomLehrer in #Australia (also, happy 90th…)
Tom Lehrer celebrated his 90th birthday today - he's definitely old and grey. Born in New York, Lehrer began studying classical piano aged seven. However, popular music caught his eye, and he began writing show tunes . A prodigy, he started at Harvard aged 15. There he began to write comic songs, including a spoof... Continue Reading →