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gillian rose

@profgillian.bsky.social

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digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here:
https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/ .. more

Gillian Rose FBA is a British geographer and geographic author. She is a professor of human geography in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Previously, she taught and served as Associate Dean at The Open University. She is best known for her 1993 book, Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge. .. more

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Katherine McKittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 13d

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ECREA Media, Cities and Space Section @mediacity-ecrea.bsky.social · 17d

1/ CFP Dossier for @mediapolis.bsky.social:
The synthetic city as an alternative, multivalent provocation to examine, interpret and forecast the emerging implications of AI and related digital technologies for urban living.
🗓️ Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔗 Link: mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...

CFP: ‘The Synthetic City’ Dossier for Mediapolis Journal

The Synthetic City A Dossier for Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture Guest Editors: Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Therese Brandner, Marcos Dias, Diogo Pereira Henriques and Sara Tren…

mediacitytwg.wordpress.com

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 24d

Starting this month, another fascinating seminar series from @livingmaps.bsky.social: 'Mapping Fluid Worlds'.

'The Flood Necklace: an exploration of how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history' - Anne-Laure Fréant.

29th October, 6pm UK, Online:
Booking: tinyurl.com/4xc65nnv

The Flood Necklace - Anne-Laure Fréant

Join us in the first event of our Mapping Fluid Worlds Series to explore how data-sculpture can carry a river’s history

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Sarah Klosterkamp @sklosterkamp.bsky.social · 29d

✨ CfP AAG 2026, San Francisco ✨

Tabea Latocha and I are teaming up feminist fabulative futures and we’d love for you to join us.

Our proposed session explores how storytelling, speculation, and fabulation can help us imagine housing otherwise — beyond ownership, extraction, and displacement. 🏡🌿💭

Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco
Feminist Fabulative Futures: Imagining Housing Otherwise

In the midst of intersecting housing, debt, as well as climate and democracy crises, imagination
becomes a political act. Feminist scholars and artists have long turned to the speculative and the
fabulative to envision worlds that could be otherwise – worlds where care, interdependence, and
collective dwelling replace dispossession, extraction, and foreclosure (McElroy 2023; Thieme 2021;
Netzwerk Feministische Wohnforschung 2025). This session invites contributions that take seriously
the feminist call to imagine differently in the face of deepening urban precarity.

Rather than treating the housing crisis as a failure of politics and finance alone, we approach it as a
failure of imagining housing and its politics radically otherwise. Following feminist and decolonial
traditions of world-making (e.g. Haraway 2013), we ask: What narratives, aesthetics, and speculative
practices can help us re-story housing beyond ownership and enclosure? How can fabulation-as
method, theory, or art-expand what we understand as home, property, or repair? And how might
feminist engagements with fiction, film, sound, and design open pathways toward inhabiting more just
and caring futures?

We seek creative, conceptual, and empirical contributions that explore how feminist fabulative
thinking reshapes our understanding of housing and urban life – both in theory and in practice.

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Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · Oct 6

🌐🚨 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

gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · Oct 1

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

96 – Digital Cities and Democracy – Urban Political Podcast

urbanpolitical.online

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Sep 29

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · Sep 29

Join us for Confronting Colonial Imaginaries – stories of a postcolonial road trip with Professor Uma Kothari.
Wednesday 1 October 2025
16:00–17:30 BST
Pathfoot Building D1, University of Stirling (hybrid event – attend in person or online)
All welcome. Register forms.gle/jmiJivr8jsur...

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Sep 19

Speculative Friction is inviting submissions that explore frictions between people and AI systems in creative and critical ways. They welcome proposals in a range of formats; learn more and submit by November 15: speculativefriction.org/livingarchive

livingarchive — Speculative Friction

<< home | about | blog | LIVING ARCHIVE | resources | events | subscribe “The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things...

speculativefriction.org

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Sam Kinsley @samkinsley.uk · Sep 16

Call for Applications: Gender, Place and Culture New and Emerging Scholars Award for 2026

Application closing date: 31 January 2026 The editorial team of Gender, Place and Culture is pleased to announce the annual award valued at a maximum… Call for Applications: Gender, Place and Culture New and…

Call for Applications: Gender, Place and Culture New and Emerging Scholars Award for 2026

Application closing date: 31 January 2026 The editorial team of Gender, Place and Culture is pleased to announce the annual award valued at a maximum… Call for Applications: Gender, Place and Culture New and Emerging Scholars Award for 2026

www.samkinsley.com

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Sep 16

Raymond Geuss, Seeing Double - @politybooks.bsky.social, April 2024
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
NDPR review by Espen Hammer
ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/seei...

Seeing Double, The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept

www.politybooks.com

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Sep 15

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate:

www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Stuart Hall Essay Prize reopens to submissions - Stuart Hall Foundation

The second Stuart Hall Essay Prize is reopening to submissions. The new submission window is open from now until Monday 3 November. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, ...

www.stuarthallfoundation.org

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The Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · Sep 14

Now booking!

"Annie Bot vs The Tech Bros." SF’s influence on modern tech culture.

🗓️ Thurs 2 Oct, 1pm, online

Join Clarke Award winner Sierra Greer + expert panel:
@drkatedevlin.bsky.social
@laurenbeukes.com
Jen Wong, Science Gallery London

Register👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annie-bot-...

Cover of Annie Bot and author photo of Sierra Greer

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Aug 18

statehood for DC on demand and without apology. If you live outside the district and care about democracy, a thing you can do is to decry the actions of the federal government under Trump to senators and representatives and urge them to support statehood for DC and withdrawal of Trump's forces there

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · Jul 11

Attractive job offer at the University of Zurich:

Lecturer Teaching position in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data, 100%, permanent position

Please share widely!

#DigitalHumanitie #JobAlert

jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

UZH: Lecturer Teaching

The Art History Department (Program Directorate) in collaboration of the departments of Film Studies, Archaeology, Media and Communication, and Educational Sciences of the University of Zurich is seek...

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Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · Aug 14

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]

‘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.

theconversation.com

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Jody Joy @jodypjoy.bsky.social · Aug 12

North Sea

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Lostcatdog @lostcatdog.bsky.social · Aug 6

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · Aug 5

really interesting special issue of New Media & Society on digital twins now out: journals.sagepub.com/toc/NMS/curr...
gives me an excuse to reshare my own (feminist) take on city digital twins, accompanied by some excellent commentaries: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · Aug 4

Goodnight from Ashcourt Necropolis’ stone guardians, wary of further vandalism conducted under pretence of hunting the Iron-toothed Vampire. Goodnight from Liv Malin, increasingly convinced certain figures walk between the photos held in the Wyndham Archive. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Maria Schreiber @perceptionalize.bsky.social · Aug 4

Submit your contribution to this fantastic online gathering of critical visual researchers: visualculturesecrea.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/c...

Call for papers online!

This year, we are organizing a one-day-online conference – find out more and join us to see through complexity!

visualculturesecrea.wordpress.com

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Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social · Dec 4

I have a new article now online- it’s a short piece for the relaunch of @vcib.bsky.social talking about my thoughts on what “visual culture in Britain“ might mean. There’s a little preview of themes and topics in my next book (A Dirty History of Photography) too- www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Take Me to the River: Place and Material in Visual Culture

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2024)

www.tandfonline.com

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Prof Andrew Hudson-Smith @digitalurban.bsky.social · Dec 16

Todays images (autogenerated using @metoffice.bsky.social text based data fed into AI) are quite nice - its improving on its cloudscapes and landscape representation... #weather #aiart #ai #landscapes

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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · Dec 17

I now have my physical copies of 'Digital Ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds' from @digicologies.bsky.social. Honestly, such lovely, caring engagement from the editors and three afterwords.

This has really made my day 🥲

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Alex Tarr @avatarr8.bsky.social · Dec 19

The wonderful editors at City asked me to write an editorial for the latest issue. Here is what I had to say about Cities, computation and capitalism:
doi.org/10.1080/1360...

(lots of wonderful work I didn't have space to cite, but I hope it furthers a broader conversation and action)

Cities, computation and capitalism

Published in City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action (Vol. 28, No. 5-6, 2024)

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · Jan 14

«The series are different in genres and tone. But all of them seem to have collectively decided that the best way to convey the sense of epic event TV is with an overture of shape-shifting, literal-minded screen-saver art.»

Why Do TV Title Sequences Have So Much … Stuff? (Gift Article)

A visual style originally meant to make TV series appear epic and distinctive has become awfully familiar

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · Jan 18

Interesting digital ID update in The Times. A couple of things on this from me: firstly, does someone at DSIT need reminding that govt is not a tech company?

Govts should have transparent public road maps for delivery. Tech cos do launches to feed the hypebeast www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

The scheme will be voluntary and drivers will still be issued with provisional and full photocard driving licences, but ministers hope the move will
"drag government into the 2020s".
The plans are due to be announced by ministers next week in a "product launch" event in central London.
Subermarkets could link the digital licence with

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · Feb 24

🎙️ Please enjoy!

These two are so generous and brilliant in conversation:
pca.st/episode/183d...

Indexicality, with Roland Meyer and Gillian Rose - The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

Hi everyone, my name is Mél Hogan and I’m a critical media studies scholar based in Canada. I’m working on a project called The Data Fix through a series of conversations with scholars, thinkers and f...

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · Feb 26

Finally online: My essay on #PlatformRealism for #Transbordeur. There couldn't be a more appropriate day to publish it, even though when I wrote it last year I couldn't have imagined the extent to which the aesthetics of AI slop would become the basis of a new #MemeFascism

“Platform Realism”. AI Image Synthesis and the Rise of Generic Visu...

In May 2023, artist Bjoern Karmann introduced a gadget called Paragraphica, a lensless “camera” based on AI text-to-image synthesis (fig. 1). For Karmann, Paragraphica gives us a glimpse into how g...

journals.openedition.org

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · May 12

Really looking forward to this event with the wonderful Gillian Rose (@profgillian.bsky.social) who will share her insights on smart cities, digital city twins and discuss with us the false promises of corporate tech solutions in search of urban problems. Next week in Zurich at Cabaret Voltaire!

Zentrum Künste und Kulturtheorie @zkk-zurich.bsky.social · May 12

The city of Zurich has become a center for the digital platform economy. But what visions of urban life are embedded in the promises offered by tech companies? @profgillian.bsky.social will speak with @bildoperationen.bsky.social at ZKK Talk #3: May 20th, 6:15 PM, Cabaret Voltaire!