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I wrote some stories where absolutely literally nothing happens, mostly to stick it to all the Dramatic Arc Dudes. It'll probably be just a bit too quiet for you. Starting tonight at 10.45pm on BBC Radio 4, dragging on all week. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

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This is just unaffordable for most U.K. people without grant money - in a context of flat/low/no PGR travel money, academic travel budgets being flat/reduced/gone. And I’d never recommend anyone use their own money for conferences

Vol. 85 – our new special issue – is out! ‘Reflections on histories and philosophies of geography’, edited by Heike Jöns, Julian Brigstocke, @DrPaulineCouper & Federico Ferretti: sciencedirect.com/journal/journa… Take a look at the contents below 🧵 1/20

More upcoming sessions in the occasional online seminar series, 'From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality'. November 2nd open Q&A session. December 2nd, seminar with Claire Colebrook! culturepowerpolitics.org/from-marx-to-s…. Hosted by Andy Goffey, @Unemployedneg and me.

“One of the stranger things about the atmosphere of the university today is that its supposed central functions are increasingly peripheral, its peripheral ones increasingly central.” lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/octo…

Wrote a short book review of 'Negative Life' by Swarbrick and Tremblay for cultural geographies (Sage). Take a look if you're interested in 'the horrors of entanglement' - moments when multi-species entanglement/harmony is impossible, unbearable, or terrifying. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

Here’s a special issue of New Formations edited by Anna J. Secor and I on ‘affect and ideology’, featuring lots of wonderful people thinking about the relation(s) between those two multiple terms, and the present conjuncture. Our intro is open access: journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformations/…

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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books

I've written a piece on biofuels and the potential for plants to help us rethink relationships between energy, growth and producitivity – just out in Enviro Humanities 🌿🌳🌾 Thanks to Prof Dolly Jørgensen & Franklin Ginn for making space for this! read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-…

Have closed 2243 tabs this week. Some highlights of forgotten pages: books on Amsterdam, puppy yoga, Oxford almanacks, the Univocal catalogue, ‘dark academia’ meets BookTok, a list of the best tv shows of 2023, and hundreds of articles that I had planned to read.

Co-organising a session on the geographies of attention with George Burdon (UNSW Canberra) for the RGS-IBG Annual Conference later this year. Please consider submitting an abstract; the deadline is 21 February. Do get in touch with questions and/or expressions of interest.

Deadline for submitting an abstract is this Friday! Thanks for all the interest so far.

Tfw you realised you put the out of office message on for the wrong email account.

Professor David Bissell delivering the 2025 Annual Bassett Lecture, ‘Hallucinatory geographies for an overheating world’ University of Bristol

Now available for ordering and/or free download… Toward a Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life. A Process Vocabulary Brian Massumi

Every two years, the Society's History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group offers a £150 award to support projects which seek to widen audience engagement within the history and philosophy of geography. Apply by 30 July and find out more here: historyphilosophyofgeographyrg.co.uk/engagement-awa…