Miriam Tedeschi

The First Animation That Hayao Miyazaki Directed on His Own: Watch Footage from the Pilot of Yuki’s Sun (1972) Hayao Miyazaki began his career as an animator in 1963, getting in the door at Toei Animation not long before the company ceased to hire regularly.

The First Animation That Hayao Miyazaki Directed on His Own: Watch Footage from the Pilot of Yuki’s Sun (1972)

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Hydrojustice Published in Law & Literature (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Book review of “Hydrojustice” (Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, 2025) just published in “Law & Literature” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
The book can be found here: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

A hybrid talk on emotion in law and the high-stakes roles of memory and place. Drawing on 15 years of ethnographic research: what happens when there is no figure in the landscape? How do courts read remorse?

Thu 29 Jan · 15:15–17:00 (UK) · stream 15:05
Register bit.ly/4aTdI2Q

AI pendants back in vogue at tech show after early setback Pendants and brooches packed with artificial intelligence abounded at the Consumer Electronics show, using cameras and microphones to watch and listen through the day like a vigilant personal assistan...

The Looki L1 AI wearable
“…continuously captures a wearer's point of view, promising to advise when to avoid another cup of coffee, to comment on places or objects around you, and to summarize each day in a comic strip.”

A white consumer drone hovers in front of the viewer

CFP, Please Share - A few days left to submit for "Critical Drone Studies: Drones in Society, Politics, and Culture" (25-26 June 2026, University of Cambridge) - Deadline for proposals: 12 January www.centrefordronesandculture.com/blog/confere...

#drone #cfp #conference #academicSky

Every year, for the past 15 or so, I have made a 'cover art' piece to mark the new year. This year's piece reflects my beloved home in the world, but which I am often away for long stretches. It offers a simple live visualisation of the local sea state racarter.itch.io/twenty-twent... #newYear

Book cover on a purple background. Red Text, white cover. These Books Do Not Exist.

One very last share - I am an inveterate tinkerer with my projects post-release, and since this one attracted more interest than expected, I've decided to update the intro text, which was really rough around the edges. richardacarter.com/these-books-...

Reminder! Call for participation, Planetary Surveillance - the 11th Surveillance Studies Network / Surveillance & Society Conference, Lille, France, 9-12 June 2026.

Deadline: 10 January 2026

#SSN2026 #surveillance

surveillance-studies.net/conference/

ssn2026.sciencesconf.org

Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.

Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound

Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... #Mentalimages #PhilosophySky #philsky

Still time to apply, until 19 December
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A fox looks up at the camera - a poor quality phone shot, but a large and healthy fox is very much in evidence

Urban encounters

Oh this is just gorgeous!

Data justice made tangible, spatial and actionable: An exploration of everyday data fairness through game making - Miriam Tedeschi, Dimitrios Gkouskos, Andrea Resmini, 2025 Data justice is negotiated and performed in everyday micro-actions and spatial settings. Yet it is hard to visualise, unpack and, thus, act upon, as its spatial...

‘Data justice made tangible, spatial and actionable: An exploration of everyday data fairness through game making’ by @dimitrees.bsky.social, @resmini.bsky.social and myself. Available open access here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Legal Design Summit 2025 – Food for thought for research and teaching at the Faculty of Law  - Insights In September 2025, a group of Faculty of Law researchers and teachers headed to Helsinki to attend the Legal Design Summit 2025. This biannual event gathers a

‘The Legal Design Summit 2025 – Food for thought for research and teaching’: Short piece on the Legal Design Summit 2025 published in Insights, online media of the Faculty of Law, University of Turku
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New: Dialogues in Urban Research exploring what it means to think about crisis as urban & how locating crisis in the urban reconfigures relations between eventful & everyday crisis politics, materiality, discourse & movement. Part of a great set of interventions.
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Proceedings of SEFI 2025 are out: zenodo.org/records/1763...

‘Dream’ by Odilon Redon (1878-82) <em>Dream</em> (1878 - 1882), by Odilon Redon.

Dream

These Inuit Maps Are Reimagining the Arctic Counter-mapping projects are supporting Indigenous sovereignty in a shifting landscape

Maps have long been used as tools of colonial power. Now, Inuit maps of the Canadian Arctic are acting as tools of resistance. Also known as counter-mapping, a 2023 Nunatsiavut collaboration began as a way to bridge Inuit knowledge with Western research. buff.ly/J91euLi #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

Presenting the Research Council of Finland-funded Academy Fellowship ‘Agency in everyday Datafication’ (AgenDa) - Insights In September 2025, the Research Council of Finland (RCF)-funded (decision no. 368166) four-year Academy Fellowship ‘Agency in everyday Datafication’ (AgenDa)

Agency in everyday Datafication: Short presentation of a recently started project published in Insights, online media of the Faculty of Law, University of Turku insights.utu.fi/presenting-t...

A conference hosted by the Centre for Drones and Culture Sponsored by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Dates: Thursday 25 June - Friday 26 June 2026 Venue: Jesus College, University of Cambridge From agriculture to logistics, from journalism to delivery, from war to peacebuilding: drones continue to impact the ways we live, work, tell stories, relate to one another, and imagine the future. Debates continue to surround more risky drone developments, such as drones' integration into autonomous, Al-driven warfare, and their illicit use for drugs and weapons delivery into prisons. However, alternative deployments show promise, including unmanned delivery of medicines to remote geographies, surveying of humanitarian crises and environmental disasters, and the creation of fresh visual idioms in photography, cinematography, gaming, and other forms of entertainment. Although the types of drones used in these spaces can be quite different, they often involve imaginaries of situational awareness, technological autonomy, and "distant intimacy" - of humans being physically apart from another person, object, or milieu while robots remain relatively close, at times even enabling affective feelings and cognitive impressions of access and intimacy. While drone studies has tended to treat the use of drones in these spaces separately, the ambition of this conference is to engage in boundary work which moves the field towards a more heterogeneous, as well as normative, understanding of drones in society, politics, and culture: towards a critical drone studies that acknowledges both how individual motivations and creativity shape what a drone is and does, and how such engagements are also influenced by institutions and power. To this end, this is a reflexively interdisciplinary conference that encourages exploratory perspectives on drone pasts, presents, and futures, with a focus on probing the logics and narratives underpinning drone development, proliferation, and acceptance.

Research on broad topics related but not limited to the following are very welcome: Drone wars: algorithmic and Al-enabled violence; drones as justified or non-justified forms of organized / disorganized violence; "new" drone wars, drone-on-drone warfare, Drones and civil liberties: policing; surveillance; predictive politics; protest; regulatory politics; atmospheric commons Drone humanitarianism: "Drones for Good"; drones in rescue and disaster relief; drone use by non-governmental organizations; drones, human rights, and accountability Drone ecologies: climate-human-technology relationships; conservation; biomimetics; environmental monitoring Drones and political economy: commercial drone applications; drone bases, supply chains, logistics, materialities Drone labour: lived experiences involving drones; drone praxis (including ethnographies and autoethnographies); drone technology and constructions of human ability / disability Drone aesthetics: artistic, speculative, and experimental imaginaries regarding unmanned and/or autonomous artefacts; popular drone culture including photography, marketing, filmmaking, drone racing, light shows Contributions from the humanities, social sciences, and beyond are very welcome, as are contributions from those working outside of academic institutions, including practitioner communities, non-profit organizations, government and policy-making organizations, think tanks, as well as artists and creators. Details for Proposals: There are three formats for presentations; please indicate which one you are applying for on the online application. Individual research presentations (max. 15 minutes) Panel presentations (max. 3 speakers x 15 minutes) Creative Showcase presentations: There is limited room for research-grounded creative contributions as part of the conference programming. At this time, we can only accommodate screen-based / touchscreen-based outputs. Deadline for Proposals: 12 January 2026

Critical Drone Studies: Drones in Society, Politics, and Culture
25-26 June 2026 at University of Cambridge.

CFP Link: www.centrefordronesandculture.com/blog/confere...

Call for abstract extended for the World Planning Schools Congress 2026!
Final deadline: November 25th, 23:59 EET

A special issue here of the journal Agoriad entitled 'Thinking with fragments: The allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in urban space'.

Exploring what the 'fragment' might offer as a way of thinking about and writing the urban.

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New article out, soon to be available in the Proceedings of the SEFI Annual Conference 2025 (www.sefi2025.eu): ‘Developing sustainability competences through a negotiation simulation role-playing game’.
With M. Marttila, M. Äijälä, myself, M. Shaw and J. Levanen

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New article out, open access, in Geoforum: ‘Data doubles co-constructing spatial practices: An empirical study’ doi.org/10.1016/j.ge....
With Johanna Hautala, Andrea Resmini @resmini.bsky.social, and myself.

The research is funded by the Research Council of Finland.

A black tile publicising the new 'Digging into Data: Learning together from analysis experiences' Special Section in Area. There is a quote from Lauren Wagner & Alan Latham's (2025) introduction in the centre. It reads: "We need to open up the process of doing analysis so that it does not feel like a process of simply following an established procedure, turning the handle, and magically getting a good finished research paper or dissertation".

A second black tile publicising the 'Digging into Data: Learning together from analysis experiences' Special Section in Area. Listed contributors include: Lauren Wagner, Alan Latham, Jennie Middleton, Marta Bivand Erdal, Andrew Barnfield, Geoff Bates, Amanda Rogers, Jennie Doyle & Katja Garson.

New Special Section in Area:

'Digging into Data' adds to our 'Thinking with Methods' collection, with 6 papers reflecting on the messy process of qualitative empirical analysis.

Edited by @citiesandstuff.bsky.social & Lauren Wagner - available here⬇️

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#Kant #philosophy #sublime #limit

A screenshot from Flight Diaries. A traced glider flightpath over a map. A popup box with statistics relating to a particular moment of the flight. A poem at the bottom. "A little upwind of the field / a matter of luck / a gentle landing".

New digital piece available in the latest issue of "The Lit Platform"! "Flight Diaries" is the latest iteration of my ongoing work in finding ways of visualising and poetically narrating my experiences as a glider pilot theliteraryplatform.com/stories/flig...

#art #poetry #digital #flight #data #dh

📢 Call for Papers – Cities, Urban Metabolism and the Polycrisis
A panel at the POLLEN 2026 conference (Barcelona, 29 June – 3 July) is looking for contributions in urban political ecology, infrastructure, and urban metabolism.
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"it may attempt too much, but it definitely delivers a lot of elements from which good, honest, reflexive urban scholarship is made": my review of Saila Maria's Transgressive City-Making and Governance is out on Housing Studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"This text draws on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology to challenge assumptions about pathology, disability, & embodied experience. It rethinks the body not as a biological fact but as our way of having a world—culturally shaped, historically situated, & always lived."