Touch: Sensing, Feeling, Knowing (Leeds Sadler Seminars)

20 Feb 201820 Feb 2018

The Humanities Research Centre at the University of Leeds, UK has a fascinating series of talks in their Sadler Seminar Series this year. Under the theme 'Touch: Sensing, Feeling, Knowing',…

Seeing, feeling, and showing ‘bodies-in-place’ – videography and the body

15 Feb 201820 Feb 2018

A new paper co-authored with Michael Glass, accepted (finally... bit of an epic story there) in Social and Cultural Geography here. You can also access an eprint here. Seeing, feeling, and…

An ecology of sensing: tracking embodied processes for science, fun, and profit

8 Feb 201815 Feb 2018

A talk in the joint CMU-University of Pittsburgh 'Environmental Humanities Research Seminar'. My paper was delivered and there was a response by Jesse Stiles, Assistant Professor of Sound Media at…

‘Sensing Collectivities’ Ph.D. Summer School, Hamburg

25 May 201731 Jan 2018

This June in Hamburg is a Ph.D. Summer School in Hamburg with the theme of 'Sensing Collectivities', which runs alongside another workshop, 'Thermal Objects'. Dr. Michael Liegl invited me to deliver one…

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…