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Posts by Serhat Ay

‘the image’ and cultural geography I've just been browsing a fascinating collection of short essays, gathered by Ben Anderson and Vickie Zhang in the summer of 2025. They invited contributions on 'the promise of cultural geography' and put all the responses into an open-access book which you can download here. It's a wonderful initiative in many ways, not least in its openness to contributions and its publication as open access.

I wrote a blog on images and cultural geography, prompted by an essay in an excellent collection convened by @benandersongeog.bsky.social @vickiezhang.bsky.social available here: research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/47...

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I have a new paper out: "image, screen, projection: conceptualising the urban (imaginary) in digital visual culture." #urban #visualculture #imaginary

available #openaccess here:
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register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️

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Pleasure to speak at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social about 'stories of future flight: urban life and design in the drone age' as part of the tech life seminar series. Thank you to @profgillian.bsky.social for the kind invitation, to @adammpacker.bsky.social as discussant, and to all who came along!

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new paper featuring pre-wedding photographs, glasshouses, orchids, air conditioning and reproductive techno-futurism I’m very happy to see this paper published open access in Gender, Place and Culture. It’s based on a dissertation authored by Rachael Chan, and it was wonderful to work with her to craf…

New paper featuring pre-wedding photographs, glasshouses, orchids, air conditioning and reproductive techno-futurism visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/n...

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🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

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96 – Digital Cities and Democracy – Urban Political Podcast

amazing line-up of speakers here, including Yu-Shan Tseng, @uitermark.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @myriageorgiou.bsky.social urbanpolitical.online/96-digital-c...

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Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.

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‘Australiana’ images made by AI are racist and full of tired cliches, new study shows What do Australians and Australia look like according to generative AI? The results are alarming.

New in @theconversation.com today from @suzesrdarov.bsky.social and I:

‘Australiana’ images made by AI are racist and full of tired cliches, new study shows theconversation.com/australiana-... [1/2]

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Just out: Editorial „Children‘s and young people‘s digital geographies: space, agency, and crises in diverse societies“ co-written with fantastic @ChristinaErgler in @Digital Geography & Society.
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Urban surfaces, graffiti, and the right to the city Published in Planning Perspectives (Ahead of Print, 2025)

My review of Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City by Sabina Andron has just been published in Planning Perspectives. It’s a great book, highly recommended! ⭐️💫✨
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