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What makes a slow tourist?

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

Slow tourism is gaining prominence as concern about climate change grows. Yet low carbon forms of tourism may be more widespread than is currently acknowledged.

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Displaced lives

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

Migration and displacement are often discussed in terms of abstract numbers. This powerful photo-essay by award winning photographer Alixandra Fazzina speaks of individual human beings in search of a secure place.

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Radical mitigation: a new priority in the mobilities agenda?

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

Research on ‘carbon budgets’ suggests that avoiding ‘dangerous climate change’ may require an ambitious reduction of certain forms of travel. Should this be a priority in the mobilities agenda?

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Mobile lives, screens and vision (I)

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

The use of vision, like the other senses, has evolved alongside technological changes. How much have histories of this affected current trends, and what may this tell us about posible futures?

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Mobile lives, screens and vision (II)

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

Big data and the proliferation of screens may change perceptions of what the world is and the way we move through it. Could a ‘living city’ exist beyond metaphor?

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Piketty and mobilities

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

Piketty’s work may open a new perspective to study the relationship between mobility and inequality, one that is more attentive to the diversity of time scales and rhythms in the creation and reproduction of wealth and the distribution of income.

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Celebrating the Art of the London Underground

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

The forms in which we collectively imagine social life are often reflected in, and in turn inform graphic material used for propaganda and marketing purposes. A retrospective exhibition of posters on the London Underground offered an opportunity to reflect on the shifting ways in which the changing nature of London and its transport have been conceived of.

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Detroit : Ruin of a City

Javier Caletrío

16/07/2018

Blending historical footage with conversations on the move with residents, artists and social scientists, the documentary reflects on race, inequality, urbanism, mobility, the past and the future. Is Detroit a taste of things to come?

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Christoph fink : objective information and subjective experience

Hanja Maksim

16/07/2018

“Touch time, touch space, touch experience…and we find ourselves surprised by the indescribable, the untouchable. A brief and intense moment of awareness.”

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MARTIN PARR - a photographic testimonial on the automobile

Hanja Maksim

16/07/2018

“When I first bought the car I couldn’t wait to catch a reflection of myself in a shop window. It’s terribly embarrassing to admit but I really enjoyed seeing myself in the car”.

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JEAN-PIERRE MARTIN – L’EXCITATION FERROVIAIRE

Hanja Maksim

16/07/2018

Born in 1948, French writer Jean-Pierre Martin became a professor of contemporary literature at the University of Lyon 2, after literature studies that culminated in a thesis on Henri Michaux. Meanwhile, as he himself confides, he lived several lives, first as a student, then a left-wing proletarian and labor activist. Travel and jazz have also played an important role throughout the years. His extensive bibliography continues to grow at a steady pace. His most recent work, L'autre vie d'Orwell…

Thematics : Lifestyles, Theories

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Jeremy Deller: The Reenchantment Of Public Transportation

Hanja Maksim

16/07/2018

“It's like some psychological warfare on the customer.” In response to an invitation from London transportation officials, artist Jeremy Deller chose to insert somewhat provocative philosophical messages in ads aimed at commuters. For instance, we hear a female driver citing Gandhi, or Sartre’s famous quote “Hell is other people,” shedding a philosophical light on issues such as promiscuity, which concern passengers directly.

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