‘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…

Book on blindness, ‘Seeing With the Hands’, now with Edinburgh UP

16 Nov 201416 Feb 2017

As the book progressed, the original idea of a quirky history with some cross-over readership started to mutate into something more historically and philosophically consistent. My reading around Descartes and…

‘Google Glass for cops’: wearable cameras, surveillance, and Ferguson

2 Sep 201418 Aug 2015

At the end of June I submitted an article to the Journal of Geography in Higher Education on using Google Glass based on the Urban Studies fieldtrip. In between receiving the…

Blindness and ‘feeling seeing’ article

30 May 201416 Feb 2017

My article "Blindness, empathy and 'feeling seeing'" published recently in Emotion, Space and Society, it turns out, has been viewed 200 times. Thanks to the automated metrics of the Elsevier dashboard, I…

Urban Studies fieldtrip: Google Glass ‘in the wild’

30 May 201428 Dec 2014

"OK Glass - direct me to coffee" The end of day 3 of the Urban Studies fieldtrip - we're in Kuala Lumpur, it's hot and humid, and we are encouraging the…

Using Google Glass for social science research…

2 Apr 201416 Feb 2017

Or, put another way: I am about to become a 'glasshole'. A research grant co-authored with a colleague from Urban Studies, appropriately named Michael Glass, has meant we are awaiting…

Deleule and Guéry: The Productive Body

2 Apr 201416 Feb 2017

Thanks to Stewart Elden's very impressive Progressive Geographies blog, he is more aware than most about what's in the publishing pipeline. Deleule and Guéry's book The Productive Body (1972) has…