Seconding this! And if anyone wants to mix it up, there's also "foundational," "groundbreaking,""important," "essential," "landmark," "revolutionary"—all of which convey something slightly different without reinforcing gendered norms or giving anyone the ick.
we’ve got human beings on the dark side of the moon but microsoft word will still not let me add a comment to a footnote
a poster with the event programme and location.
really looking forward to this workshop on the techno-geographies of AI in Milan next week - if you're nearby and interested, register here:
www.meta.polimi.it/internationa...
I was on a panel this week at the Royal Society, talking about AI and the future of women in science, and Wendy Hall asked us about the consequences of a future without women working in AI. And my reply was that we don't need to imagine that future. It's here. It's the present.
The original sin here, IMV, is that a lot of writers and editors hear 'reading age of ten years old' and go 'ah, I'm writing for a moron!'
Did you know Tila Tequila was one of the internet's first influencers? 🤔 How do you think early pioneers like her shaped today's social media landscape?
Don't miss this podcast episode with Lisa Nakamura discussing these insights and more!
YouTube: youtu.be/2LfDIyFPZOI?...
A true publishing event... The collected writings of the esteemed Katherine McKittrick, out now from the @uminnpress.bsky.social.
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791706...
Looking for public domain & open license images? “Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone... [searching] 800 million images and audio tracks from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset.“ Also, attribute authorship with one click 📸
'Sensorial Methodologies, Extended Urbanization'
Excited to be involved in this event in Sheffield (12 March) at the Site Gallery inc film screening, book launch + panel discussion w/ @nitin-bathla.bsky.social, Junia Mortimer and more
More info here: sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...
Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come
🚨CFP: The ADM+S Generative Authenticity project is hosting a small scholarly symposium on Authenticity, Generative AI and Synthetic Media on 6-7 May at QUT Kelvin Grove (and hybrid node).
Short abstracts due 9 March.
All info and the submission form: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Last week on Wonkhe: For Rex McKenzie, higher education assessment has always privileged certain discourses – but the rise of artificial intelligence means that this can no longer hold
Rest in Power, Teresa de Lauretis (1938 - 2026). 💔
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...
Now I think about it, perhaps Cathy being driven to a breakdown by lack of economic independence and denial of personal autonomy while Heathcliff is unstinting in his cruelty and personal vengeance is indeed a story for our times, but the romcom vibe of the movie press tour still jar a bit
‘fun’ fact: established in 1991 (yes, 1991 not 1891), the Vautrin Lud prize has been awarded to a grand total of five women. #geosky
✍️ @profgillian.bsky.social
🔍 If in #digital #visual culture, images require screens and data networks to become visible, how does this mediate the #infrastructure of cities both materially and imaginatively?
📖 buff.ly/gltMcGX
Published my first piece at @wired.com today, about a string of AI thrillers that have bombed (most recent being the hopelessly naive Chris Pratt vehicle 'Mercy'), the backlash to Darren Aronofsky's YouTube slop take on the American Revolution, and a grotesque nostalgia-bait Super Bowl ad:
I have a new paper out: "image, screen, projection: conceptualising the urban (imaginary) in digital visual culture." #urban #visualculture #imaginary
available #openaccess here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A few days ago we lost an important hidden figure in the history of 20th century Cold War technology—Gladys West’s work and insights were essential in the creation of GPS:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I wrote an enthusiastic review of 'The Smartness Mandate' and 'The Ordinal Society', with added geographies.
@ohalpern.bsky.social @marionf.bsky.social @dgrgrgs.bsky.social
learn more about the visual politics of lots of ecologies by registering for the Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb in Oxford - tickets going fast! 🧐
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual...
@digicologies.bsky.social
The first talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @rikjaz.bsky.social (@uclgeography.bsky.social)
Tuesday 27th January, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!
The @leverhulmecal.bsky.social PhD studentships are now live here leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/leverhulme-c... Are you looking for a PhD programme that supports interdisciplinary approaches to algorithmic life? Closing date 26 February
delighted to be part of this amazing lineup. #geosky
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... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️
this was a hugely impactful event, centring on the multiple costs of chronic and endemic precarity in UK HE. the full report and some highly practical action plans are here: www.rgs.org/research/hig...
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #HigherEd
@rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social
"extensive powers" that hopefully exclude the use of #AIslop to visualise new infrastructure and other development. this kind of glutinous aerial AI landscape is so thoughtless about picturing place, the built environment and how they're experienced in multiple ways. @bildoperationen.bsky.social
