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Awkwardly exploring fear, fascination and ambivalence in the ruin of Hitler’s...
“Fixating on the historical locale feels naïve, even juvenile; the prime epistemological illusion of ‘heritage’, after all, is to substitute place for process, thus to manufacture ersatz...
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CFP – AAG 2020 – New Directions in Subterranean Geopolitics (abstract...
Sadly I’m not able to go to this – but if interested abstracts are due by 18 October 2019. Call for Papers: American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting (AAG) 2020, April 6-10, Denver, CO, USA....
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The bunker is dead, long live the bunker: announcing my forthcoming...
“I try to escape, but the bunker keeps pulling me back in.” Luke Bennett, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2019… Following in the footsteps of Paul Virilio’s (1994) investigations of the ruins of the Nazi...
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Living beyond the limits of survival: five articles on ongoing cultural...
“the wood-ant ‘colony’ described here – although superficially looking like a functioning colony with workers teeming on the surface of the mound – is rather an example of survival of a large amount...
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The Greater Confinement: Survival Cells, the Survival City and how COVID-19...
“Although cities and city dwellers are vulnerable to assaults on their biotope, however crude or sophisticated, they are resilient and not easily wiped from the map. The defensive reflex that has beset...
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Haunts #3: The Haunted Battleground – free SHU Space & Place Group Zoom...
“The Memorial Forest … looks quite strange; those are scars from bombardments that occurred on this site during the battle for Vimy Ridge in 1917 as well as failed military manoeuvres before and after...
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The ghosts we summon from the battlefield: reflections and event recording...
“To the uninitiated, the landscape is flat and unremarkable, punctured only by the bulk of the Lion’s Mound amid miles of grassland and the occasional thicket of trees or a charming barn conversion....
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New Uses for Old Bunkers #43: un-used and de-valued citadels
“Now these survivals from the Cold War are, in their turn, disappearing fast, like medieval monasteries and bastioned forts before them – only with more limited scope for regeneration and reuse. In...
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Approaching the painted cannons of Lisboa
“As I concentrated on these forms in the middle of apartment buildings, in courtyards, and in public squares, I felt as though a subterranean civilisation had sprung up from the ground.” Paul Virilio...
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‘The emotional labour of contemporary ruin gazing’ – reflections on SHU SPG’s...
“I am interested in what library scientists call the “information-seeking behaviours” of artists—how and why arts practitioners pursue research, often in the form of primary source archives, objects,...
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