Architecture of Sensation

28 Mar 201725 May 2017

An article just published in Body and Society, titled 'Architecture of Sensation: Affect, Motility and the Oculomotor'. It appears in an issue with an essay by Juhanni Pallasmaa, the Finnish architect, who…

Talk at Temple University, Feb 23rd

16 Feb 2017

An upcoming talk in the Architecture division of the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. February 23rd. The title of the talk: 'The Architecture of the Oculomotor: Body Motility, Ocular…

‘Seeing With the Hands’ Book: Now Available

18 Mar 201628 Mar 2017

My book Seeing With the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch after Descartes is out now with Edinburgh University Press [link]. In the USA it is distributed by Oxford University Press…

Interview with journalist on the Social Softness Illusion (SSI)

19 Oct 201516 Feb 2017

Laura Tedesco, a freelance science journalist, interviewed me over the phone last month about a new piece of research just published on the so-called Social Softness Illusion. The article got…

Affect Theory Conference #affectWTF

19 Oct 201516 Feb 2017

So, over to Amish country for the first tie in many years, to Lancaster, PA for the rather amazing Affect conference. The fluidity of audiences between rooms, appearing and then…

‘Motricity, n.’

18 Aug 201518 Aug 2015

Etymology:  < French motricité (1855) < motrice , feminine of moteur (adjective; see MOTORadj.) + -ité-ITY suffix. Physiology  Motor function; the faculty or power of movement by the body or…

‘Intimate Listening’: paper for Emotional Geographies conference 2015

18 Aug 201516 Feb 2017

Katy Bennet from the University of Leicester approached me months ago to speak at the 'Emotional Geographies' conference in Edinburgh in June. I went to the first ever Emotional Geographies…

Chapter in ‘Geographical Aesthetics’ volume

31 Dec 201416 Feb 2017

A chapter that I wrote some time ago recently went through the proofs stage and will come out in the edited collection Geographical Aesthetics edited by Harriet Hawkins and Libby…

Talk on robots as ‘companion species’ at Carnegie Mellon, Jan 14th

28 Dec 201416 Feb 2017

So my next upcoming talk is at Carnegie Mellon University, at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, on January 14th, 4-5.30pm. Link on the CMU website is here. Here is the title…

The Tongue Display Unit (TDU) at UPMC: seeing with the tongue?

16 Nov 201416 Feb 2017

Courtesy of staff at University of Pittsburgh's Medical Center (UPMC), in September 2013 I was invited to the Sensory Substitution Lab to do something that I have wanted to do for years: have…