In Frankfurt next week for a visit to Thomas Lemke’s Fixing Futures group. Various activities, including a public lecture on the politics of intensity, and this book launch : )

Reading this collection of essays in appreciation of Lawrence Grossberg’s work. It’s never really been engaged with in cultural geography, apart from edges of affect work, which is a shame (and indicative of pathways not taken, one that expended the whole way of life tradition of thinking culture)

The product of joyful collaborations!

For people at the RGS-IBG, we have a panel on our book later today, between 14.40-16.20 in lecture theatre 2 - with Angharad Closs-Stephens, Mitch Rose, Jessica Pykett, Jason Dittmer and Fiona McConnell. Should be fun!

If you are going to the RGS-IBG conference we’re selling copies of The Promise of Cultural Geography at the registration desk. £10 for a beautiful object, that covers costs and will allow us to develop future projects …

Back cover with contributor names

The spine thread colour coming through is deliberate

Our The Promise of Cultural Geography compilation now exists as a physical book, as well as OA online, thanks to all @vickiezhang.bsky.social work and gomer printing who together have created a beautiful object. We’ll be bringing a lot of them to the #rgsibg25

Almost ready … 90+ entries, open access … the promises of cultural geography with Vickie Zhang

We dedicated our forthcoming book - The Politics of Feeling - to our grandparents. In a period when Universities are under attack, and as a new reform/blue labour anti-universities coalition takes form, we wanted to affirm the power of education

Trying and failing to diagram the change to linear, progressive time with my third year group (all consuming present, distant or opaque future, stalled and interrupted trajectories, time loop optimism that finds the future in the near or far past)

This is funny. We’ve got a chapter in our Politics of Feeling book on liberalism in today’s conjuncture, which argues that the desperate promise of ‘putting politics aside’ enacts liberalism’s crisis …

After a day in meetings yesterday, doing page proofs for The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism, with @ajsecor.bsky.social Here’s part of the argument about the impasse progressivism finds itself in (the loss of faith in progress)