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Author: PGR

  • How to map nothing: Shannon Mattern on geographies of suspension

    Back on 27th January, the UCL faculty of the Built Environment (virtually) hosted a seminar talk by the mighty mighty Shannon Mattern; a little more than a week ago, they uploaded a recording of said talk to A Popular Video-sharing Platform. This is that video, and I commend it to you wholeheartedly; I will not…

  • Touring the carbon ruins: toward an ethics of speculative methods

    In case you didn’t catch me trumpeting about in on the birdsite: I have a new paper (co-written with Johannes Stripple) at the journal Global Discourse. For those who don’t want to go for the full scholarly fandango, the GD people had me do a wee blog post for them on the topic of the…

  • rear window

    The current view from my armchair. By way of an update for those wondering why things went a bit quiet here: I hit a motivational slump in late January, and then finished the month off by fumbling the last move on a 6b+ slab problem at Klättercentret, falling a couple of meters, and fracturing the…

  • ljudet av gitarrer

    Feeling very seen here, Duolingo.

  • själe om en nya maskin

    TFW you ask your employers for a new computer, and they give you free choice within a generous budget. Hell, I’m even allowed to put Linux on it. Blessed be.