“This is a map! Is it? It’s a drawing! Is it really a map? It is!” Welcome Confusion! Confusion helps us to get our thoughts, emotions and boundaries moving and opens spaces for discussions and reflections on multiple levels. Being engaged as scholars in a neoliberalizing academy, we participate in the production and distribution of […]
You Must Buy before You Can Fly
The following maps are the result of a long-term observation process that I made in many airports mainly in Europe. At the same time they represent a symbol. The Observation Process The maps show how the general public, and specifically the passengers, are moving in a space carefully designed by an “invisible” force. By this […]
Uneven Digital Geographies
Information has always been spatial. It is produced somewhere; it is used somewhere; it moves between places (Graham et al., 2015a). And the geographies of information have always been imbricated in power relationships. Some people have far more control over it than others, and some places are central in information ecosystems whilst others are peripheral. […]
Counter Mapping Militant Research
As a collective with diverse ties to the university factory – adjuncts, fellows, freelancers, indebted graduate students, assistant professors under review, unemployed PhDs and caregivers – how do we situate ourselves in relation to increasingly undemocratic and exploitative infrastructures of higher education? How can we confront everyday precarity due to lack of access to housing, […]
