borders | migration | spatial practice
professor of architecture & visual culture
UCL Urban Lab
www.topologicalatlas.net
The problem with profit and engagement driven misinformation from pseudo-OSINT accounts during the Israel-Palestine conflict is "unprecedented." One expert said after Musk's recent changes "all hell broke loose."
I have no issues whatsoever with people wanting to be on Bluesky; in fact, if it hastens the demise of Twitter/X which now seems beyond repair, I’m personally all for it- as far as politics, cat pictures, thoughts on the world in general etc are concerned
but I don’t understand how moving *science discourse* to a for profit, invite only, platform is in any way compatible with the goals of open science and science reform.
am I missing something?
On the impossibility of Palestinian grief
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-response-to-joshua-leifer/?s=09
☔️ The Faulty Weathermen of the Mind
by Shruti Ravindran @s_ravindran at @NautilusMag
Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?
#Psychology #psychosis #schizophrenia #PredictiveProcessing
The Story of Lorem Ipsum: How Scrambled Text by Cicero Became Used by Typesetters Everywhere
https://www.openculture.com/2023/09/the-story-of-lorem-ipsum-how-scrambled-text-by-cicero.html
In high school, the language I most fell in love with happened to be a dead one: Latin. Sure, it’s spoken at the Vatican, and when I first began to study the tongue of Virgil and Catullus, friends joked that I could only use it if I moved to Rome.
Opening tomorrow in Leicester - A solo show (a retrospective!) about game worlds, walled gardens, the violence and beauty of isolated spaces, and the homes we seek to build wherever we water.
7 pm Fri July 7 / Artist talk to follow same time next day.
https://www.phoenix.org.uk/about-art/fragment-ecologies-artist-statement/