Call for papers: Geography of/with A.I
I very much welcome any submissions to this call for papers for the proposed session for the RGS-IBG annual conference (in London in late-August) outlined below. I also welcome anyone getting in touch...
View Article“Merger” by Keiichi Matsuda – automation, work and ‘replacement’
“With automation disrupting centuries-old industries, the professional must reshape and expand their service to add value. Failure is a mindset. It is those who empower themselves with technology who...
View Article“AI will displace 40 percent of world’s jobs in as soon as 15 years”– Kai-Fu Lee
In a widely-trailed CBS ’60 minutes’ interview, the A.I-pioneer-cum-venture-capitalist Kai-Fu Lee makes the sorts of heady predictions about job replacement/displacement that the media like to lap up....
View ArticleBernard Stiegler: “Rethinking an industrial policy in the era of the...
I recently came across an edited interview with Bernard Stiegler published on the website of Philosophie Magazine (17/12/18) [a] in which Stiegler ties together a very brief reading of the ‘yellow...
View Article“Ready Lawnmower Player Man One”, or VR’s persistent future
For the last couple of years I have given a lecture that takes the “Virtual/Real” distinction and deconstructs it using various bits of geographical theory. I also talk about the enduring trope of the...
View ArticleAntipod: A Radical Geography Podcast and Sound Collective – 1st episode online
Perhaps worth checking out… Episode 1: Clyde Woods, Dispossession, and Resistance in New Orleans In this first full episode of Antipod we turn our attention to Black Geographies, the theme of our...
View ArticleGeographies of/with AI at the RGS-IBG conference this week
As we race headlong towards September and another term (in the UK), it is the week of the RGS-IBG annual international conference in geographyland. At this year’s conference I am convening a double...
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Changing Digital Geographies – new book from Jess McLean
I was delighted to have Dr Jess McLean from Macquarie visit us in Exeter this week. Jess gave a great talk in our department around themes from a new book, about to be published by Palgrave. It...
View ArticleReading Clive Barnett’s The Priority of Injustice
There is now a ‘review forum‘ in Political Geography around Clive’s The Priority of Injustice featuring some excellent reflections by Jack Layton, Juliet Davis, Jane Wills, David Featherstone and...
View ArticleLeibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space Spring Academy – PGR/ECR...
The IRS Spring Academies are a fantastic opportunity for anyone with an interest in the theme and in an early career position (postgraduate or post-doctoral researchers). Investigating Space(s):...
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