Out Now: Data Publics Programme
The Final Programme for Data Publics: Investigating the formation and representation of crowds, groups and clusters in digital economies 51ø£Ąū, March 31 / April 1 & 2, 2017 This conference will investigate the diverse ways in which publics are, and...
Mobilities, Literature, Culture: CeMoRe hosts April conference
On April 21-22nd 2017 CeMoRe will host the inaugural conference of the new Palgrave Macmillan book series, Studies in Mobilities, Literature and Culture. The series directors - Charlotte Mathieson (University of Surrey), Marian Aguiar (Carnegie Mellon, USA),...
Taking out the trash
Picking UpĀ is about the seemingly mundane and certainly smelly world of garbage collection in New York City. Author Robin Nagle is motivated by the question, āWho cleans up after us?ā She works as an anthropologist-in-residence at the New York Department of Sanitation...
Reading Ranciere 1st March 2017
1st March Let's read 'Artistic Regimes and the Shortcomings of the Notion of Modernity' from Ranciere'sĀ the politics of aestheticsĀ (2004, pp. 20-30.Ā http://www.stroom.nl/media/Ranciere_The%20Distribution%20of%20The%20Sensible_Politics%20of%20Aesthetics.pdf...
A body spa on the move: The emperorās bathing experience
How does a sensual bathing experience link to a digitized one? Kornelia Hahn, professor of Sociology at the University of Salzburg, presents an empirical case of a popular commodified spa body treatment that is marketed as the emperorās bathing experience. ...
Cemore Showcase
Last week we organized another edition of Cemore Showcase, featuring 3-minute stand-up presentations by our researchers and associates. A dozen presentations on topics ranging from cycling to migration, to autonomous driving, to death in digital games have been...
1st March 2017 Reading: aesthetic anticipation of the future
Let's read 'Artistic Regimes and the Shortcomings of the Notion of Modernity' from Ranciere'sĀ the politics of aestheticsĀ (2004, pp. 20-30.Ā http://www.stroom.nl/media/Ranciere_The%20Distribution%20of%20The%20Sensible_Politics%20of%20Aesthetics.pdf slowly.
Cemore walk: Shaping and being shaped by the Duddon Valley
Sunday 12th February Join us in the Duddon Valley in the Lake District for a breath of fresh air and a Cemore walking seminar with artist Nikki Pugh. The walk will take in sites related to Nikkiās research for her current work with Chris Donaldson from Lancaster...
5 Anatomy Lessons
Anatomy of a SoldierĀ tells the story of a British captain injured in Afghanistan. From this compelling starting point, author Harry Parker adds a twist: forty-five objects narrate the story. Though a bestseller this book wasnāt on my radar until Ole B. Jensen, when...
Difference, repetition, movement
This week's Cemore reading group meandered to Deleuze'sĀ Difference and Repetition,Ā because Baudrillard (last reading) made us curious about the symbolic as an act of exchange. We found DeleuzeĀ 'therapeutic' and not amenable to an instrumental method or epistemology....
Previous Cemore Fellowships
Rachel AldredĀ Ā Tarini BediĀ Ā David Bissell Ā Ā Owen ChapmanĀ Ā Cathy ColeborneĀ Ā Martin Emanuel Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Nikki Pugh Ā Ā Ā Holly Thorpe
Previous Visitors
Thiago Allis Ā Zofia Bednarowska Ā Kornelia Hahn Ā Claus Lassen Ā Camila Dos Santos Moraes Ā Bianca Freire MedeirosĀ Ā Miriam Schreiter
To apply for Ā Cemore Fellowship, please see here. Cemore also warmly welcomes visitors. To find out more, please contact Aurora Trujillo.