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When: Tuesday, 11th of February, 18:00
Where: M330, Marylebone Campus, NW1 5LS
The Expanded Territories Reading Group in the School of Architecture + Cities invites all college staff and students who might be interested, to join us in reading “Unthought: The Power of Cognitive Nonconscious” by N. Katherine Hayles.
The Expanded Territories Reading Group will be held on Tuesday 9th of April at 18.00 in M330, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster NW1 5LS.
Professor Lindsay Bremner will introduce AbdouMaliq Simone’s Improvised Lives (2018).
The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed as places to reside or inhabit. But what if we thought of popular districts in more expansive ways that capture what really goes on within them? In this important new book AbdouMaliq Simone portrays urban districts as sites of enduring transformations that mediate between the needs of residents not to draw too much attention to themselves and their aspirations to become small niches of exception.
Suggested future titles are:
Amitav Gosh (2016). The Great Derangement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Cadena, M. de la and Blaser, M., eds. (2018). A world of many worlds. Durham: Duke University Press.
Viriasova, I. (2018). At the limits of the political: affect, life, things. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield International.
The next Expanded Territories Reading Group will be held on Tuesday 12th of March at 18.00 in M330, Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster NW1 5LS.
Anthony Powis will introduce Sunil Amrith’s Unruly Waters.
Asia’s history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia’s history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas–and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers and farmers who have sought to control them.
Suggested future titles are:
Amitav Gosh (2016). The Great Derangement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Cadena, M. de la and Blaser, M., eds. (2018). A world of many worlds. Durham: Duke University Press.
Viriasova, I. (2018). At the limits of the political: affect, life, things. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield International.
The next Expanded Territories Reading Group will be held on Tuesday 11th of December at 18.00 in M330.
Dr. Beth Cullen will introduce Tim Ingold’s The Life of Lines, (London: Routledge, 2015).
The most astonishing book on architecture that I have read in years. (Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times)
The next Expanded Territories Reading Group will take place on Wednesday 3rd October at 17.30 in M330. We will be discussing Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman, introduced by David Chandler.
The second Expanded Territories reading group will meet in M330 on Wednesday 06 June at 17.30.
Christina Geros will introduce:
Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy, edited by Etienne Turpin.
The book is available for download or purchase here:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/architecture-in-the-anthropocene/
Discussion will be accompanied by wine and nibbles.
All are welcome.
