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Thinking through infrastructure – energy, transport, water, waste, housing, health – with methods from the arts, humanities, & social sciences.
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Ocean Liners and Modern Literature, with Faye Hammill (opens the original)
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How does the ocean liner of the late 19th and early 20th centuries differ from the modern cruise ship? What does it mean to thinking about the ocean liner as a form of ‘passenger shipping’ rather than ‘cruising’ and how does this call attention to the ways human movement becomes absorbed into regimes of capital and nationhood? And how might ocean liner literature help us to examine the role of nostalgia in narratives of infrastructure tragedies? In this episode of the Thinking Through Infrastruc
Policing, Race, and Urban Spatial Imaginaries in Spider-Man Narratives, with Reed Puc (opens the original)
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What can Spider-Man teach us about infrastructure? How do superhero narratives open up urgent questions around crime, justice, and the city in the context of racial capitalism? What do we gain from an abolitionist reading of popular culture? And what does an abolitionist perspective bring to our understanding of infrastructure? In this episode, Dom sat down with Reed Puc, a researcher and curator at the British Library and a member of the steering group for the Thinking Through Infrastructure Ne
Privatising Humanity: How Our Essential Human Needs Became Financial Assets, with Kate Bayliss (opens the original)
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Who owns the UK’s most essential infrastructure? How are our water and energy bills connected to offshore finance and private equity? What are the social consequences of privatised infrastructure ownership? And how can we build the political will to implement meaningful alternatives? In this episode, Dom spoke with with Kate Bayliss, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Policy and Research at SOAS, University of London, about her powerful new book, Privatising Humanity: How Our Essent
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