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…

Leonardo Art-Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) in NY: January 19th

17 Jan 201416 Feb 2017

Short notice, but I'm speaking at an art-science event in New York on the 19th. LASER is part of the beautiful, sprawling Leonardo project that encompasses a journal, book series,…

Upcoming talk at CIQR, Duquesne University: ‘On inner touch and the moving body’

20 Nov 201316 Feb 2017

Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research (CIQR -- "seeker": http://www.duq.edu/ciqr/) Date: December 5 (Thurs.), 4:30-6:00, Berger Gallery (207 College Hall), Duquesne University Update: A video of the talk is available on…

“On ‘inner touch’ and the moving body”

1 Nov 201316 Feb 2017

A book chapter "On 'inner touch' and the moving body: aisthesis, kinaesthesis and aesthetics" has just been published in the edited collection Touching and Being Touched: Kinesthesia and Empathy in Dance and…

‘Reading with the fingers. Blindness, sensory substitution, and the possibilities for tactile communication’

16 Sep 201316 Feb 2017

After a call for papers for a special issue 'Sensorium Commune' of the journal Communications, edited by Marie-Luce Girard and Olivier Sorost, I didn't realize what a fascinating journal it…