THIS SPACE IS A VIBRANT ASSEMBLAGE OF MIXED-USE CONTENT / urban geographer / ethnography, political economy, informality, housing + China, 重庆 🇨🇳 / Leeds
Trade unions should hold vocational and skill competitions in various forms to motivate #workers and unleash their creative potential so that they can fully play their role in all fields and all sectors of society. https://t.co/i0Ow5EH3S0
Delighted to announce that our upcoming public speech in Shanghai with @roastfkll
“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” It’s time to push ‘meta philosophy of urbanisation’ out of ivory tower.
“I’ll expect you to feed me, bathe me, brush my hair, hold my hand, recognise me when I have ceased to recognise myself and be the last human touch I may feel before I die.
But I do not think, at the same time, that you deserve a family life.”
This new article by Järvinnen & Mik-Meyer on "gendered service work in academia" made me go through all stages of grief on a loop and I think EVERYONE in academic should read it 👇https://t.co/kzarbB5Y2n
New year, new paper! Very excited my collaborative work with Xiaobo Su on the connections between state-led venture capital (VC) investments & the urban process of capital accumulation is now published in Dialogues in Human Geography (@DialoguesHG)! 🧵👇
https://t.co/OcObKyKdTU
@venicedph@SanNuvola the core concept is to use the megadungeons typical of role-playing games and their features – infrastructure, procedural topographic generation, layering, gameplay logics, and ecologies – as a model to represent the complexity of the entire digital media landscape
lineup goes hard: @roastfkll's spatial history of the dungeon, @betrayal's media theorization, @nicolasnova's monster manual update, Luigi Monteanni's goblin anthropology, Rebekah Rhodes's review of post-Bosch art, Carolina Fernández-Castrillo's analysis of co-creation economies
Wrote up with Adam and Jon an academic version of the Manchester Offshored report into MCFC/Abu Dhabi's land deals in Manchester. May be of interest for thinking through the role states play in urban enclosure! https://t.co/cZyjyj3MqH