Juliet J. Fall

Tower with openings for windows and door that make it looks like a sick face.

Living in an ivory tower doesn't seem so good 🥴

Celebrate Cyber Monday by buying nothing but downloading a free open-access book instead!

Il faut arrêter de dire que la crise provoquée par la révélation d’un réseau de corruption en Ukraine affaiblit Zelensky. C’est plutôt le contraire. Et le dire nourrit le message russo/américain sur l’illégitimité de la démocratie ukrainienne.
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Excellent article! Pour un exemple plus proche, vous pourriez lire ma BD (pdf) sur Carl-Vogt, une polémique qui réapparaît régulièrement, malgré le changement de nom du bâtiment et les discussions encore en cours sur le retour éventuel de la statue, déplacée pour travaux www.unige.ch/actualites/a...

One of many, many border stones along the line

Want to escape elsewhere for a moment? Then follow me Along the Line as I explore how territories are born, drawn & maintained on the ground. Read the comic, browse the text chapters, and enjoy not spending any money as it’s not only paper but also open access! www.epflpress.org/produit/1555...

Prof Julie de Dardel, à l’Université de Genève, auteure d’un livre remarquable sur la circulation des modèles de prison, et directrice d’une équipe de recherche sur la décroissance carcérale. www.unige.ch/sciences-soc...

Rental Bike called Big Willy

I am childish enough to chuckle on putting this photo into a lecture, taken outside my uni building.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

This is why I teach a class, with fellow geographer J-F Staszak, on critically understanding the geographical imaginations that carve up the world into parts: seeing nations, civilisations, and even continents as historically and culturally contingent objects that shape how we think of the world.

Les meilleures machines! Fabriquées, à l’époque, à Genève.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

What If Geography Is the Curriculum We Need for the Future? - EdSurge News A student once told me, halfway through the term, “I thought this class would be about memorizing countries. But now I can’t stop seeing systems.”He ...

Demian Hommel, associate professor at Oregon State University, shares how the discipline is critical to create students who think spatially and act ethically: “Geography belongs at the center of that transformation, no longer a legacy subject, but a frontline framework.”

Proving we are human by being kind.

This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.

Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, with Juliet Fall Stream Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography, with Juliet Fall by Thinking Through Infrastructure Network on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free ...

It was such a pleasure to chat with @julietjfall.bsky.social about her recent book Along the Line, which explores border infrastructure through graphic narrative.

For the new TTiN series of conversations with academics and artists working on infrastructure.

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::screams in librarian::

LLMs can censor materials from the library systems if deemed “sensitive” and also currently being sold as getting rid of “sensitive content” from local library collections.

Of course this shit is being manipulated. For the benefit of who is the bigger question.

A sort if streak of light in dark skies, with stars and a sort of snowy landscape, in watercolour

Painting skies, in watercolour.

Screenshot de pages qui mettent l’accent sur les circulations des idées

Explication de la posture des auteurs: pas une adaptation mais tentative double: rendre les concepts accessibles et raconter leurs histoires mouvementées

La BD “French Theory: itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle” est vraiment géniale, & est bien plus qu’une simple adaptation de l’essai original. Plutôt une lecture située contemporaine, sur fond de backlash “anti-woke”. À lire absolument!
Thanks @foucault-news.bsky.social & @stuartelden.bsky.social !

Extract from Cusset & Daquin “French Theory: itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle” La Découverte 2025

My (2007) review of Cusset’s book “French Theory: Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze et Cie et les mutations de la vie…” is available here if anyone is interested in reading it alongside the excellent comic based on the book that has just come out (I’m reading it now!) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

This is an enchanting performance.

Perhaps if all public figures & leaders took time to cultivate a unique skill to feed their soul and to share with others then they wouldn’t get so focused on holding on to power for power’s sake. We can dream, and celebrate those that do.

A compliment indeed! Thank you.

A sort if streak of light in dark skies, with stars and a sort of snowy landscape, in watercolour

Painting skies, in watercolour.

Cover of book, with graphic novel style drawings of Foucault, Baudrillard and others

François Cusset, Thomas Daquin, French Theory, itinéraires d’une pensée rebelle - La Découverte/Delcourt 2025
www.editions-delcourt.fr/bd/series/se...
Thanks to @foucault-news.bsky.social for the link

Oh cool! I reviewed the original book when it came out, so reading / looking at this will be like meeting an old friend. Thanks, Stuart!

Faux. Ça agit plutôt comme certains mandarins : ça pique les travaux des jeunes chercheurs sans les citer et mettant sa signature dessus. Tout en véhiculant des préjugés sexistes/racistes et en ayant des thuriféraires qui hurlent "on ne peut plus rien faire" quand on fait remarquer le problème.

Author from the back, autumnal colours. All photos Francesca Acetino

A border stone! Yay!

Old postcard (1920s) on a large piece of picture, showing border building

Wandering along the 🇨🇭🇫🇷 border with our fabulous Master students. Started in the snow, left in the sun!

A great pleasure to chat to @drdomdavies.bsky.social about infrastructure, comics, and why using visual essays changes how we observe, think and write about the world.
The podcast is available to listen to on the link here 👇, as well as on the other usual platforms (spotify, apple podcasts, etc).

Cover of the book "Captain America and the nationalist superhero: metaphors, narratives and geopolitics" by Jason Dittmer

Putting in a word for my fellow geographer @realjdittmer.bsky.social here, and his PhD-turned-book on geopolitics and Captain America!
(Jason, I know you no longer really write about comics, but nobody forgets their first love, & I'm sure we can bring you back into the geography / comics team!)

Reminder: in Ukraine, innocent civilians continue to be killed every day by Russian drone, cruise-missile, and ballistic-missile attacks. For 1321 days, Ukraine has been fighting for its survival, for democracy, and for the right to self-determination. In Ukraine, Europe’s freedom is being defended.

The Once and Future Riot by Joe Sacco review – a masterclass in visual reportage The author of Palestine turns his attention to the legacies of Indian partition in this brilliant portrait of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots

I reviewed Joe Sacco's latest book, the Once and Future Riot. It's as good as anything he's done, and that is a high bar.
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