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Automated lettuce
Following on from the earlier post about recurring stories, here’s two headlines more-or-less reporting the same story. The first is a story from the Daily Mail newspaper in 1965. As appears to often...
View Article‘Post-work’ and shifting from “the” future of work to futures of work
As part of my project on automation I’ve begun to engage with the wealth of literature about ‘the future of work’ and in particular the sorts of imaginings of a ‘post-work’ society that have emerged...
View ArticleBallet Robotique – popular representations of automation
In between doing other things I am trying to maintain a little progress with work on The Automative Imagination. Recently I’ve been looking at (largely Anglophone and/or global North/West)...
View ArticleCFP> Disrupting technology: contextualising continuity and change in technology
Via Kate Hardy Disrupting technology: contextualising continuity and change in technology, work and employment 16-17th January, Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change, University of...
View ArticleCFP AAG 2020 –‘New geographies of automation?’
I’d welcome submissions, questions or any form of interest for the proposed session I outline below. My aim with this session is to continue a conversation that has arisen in geography and beyond...
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Absence makes… blogging harder
I haven’t written here for some time. It is not because I am short of ideas, but rather – I am short of time. I am convening three modules this year at work and had to write one (from scratch) and...
View ArticleFunded PhD: British Telegraphic work and spaces
My colleague Richard Noakes, Anne Archer and James Elder at BT Archives and I have a funded PhD position that will commence in September. Please see all of the relevant information below. Please also...
View ArticleAlgorithms in politics after Brexit
As Clive recently shared – Kuba Jablonowski, Clive and myself have been very fortunate to successfully apply for a grant in the ESRC’s ‘Governance after Brexit’ scheme. The project, which begins in...
View ArticleCall for Participation: Lockdown Locales
I would like to invite you to participate in a documentation of the places we are working. This is intended as a snapshot of the ‘mundane’ material conditions of academic labour during the pandemic....
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