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Luke Bennett

@lukebennett13.bsky.social

Emeritus Fellow at SHU. PhD. MRes. LLB. SFHEA. Former solicitor. Occasional bureaucrat. Now writing about Legal Geography, Environmental Law, Modern Ruins and Place Management. Editor in Chief of JPPEL. http://lukebennett13.wordpress.com Sheffield, UK.

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Diaries of a nobody: Is the unexamined life worth living? “He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances.” James Joyce (1914) Dubliners He's done it again. My son's lastest YouTube video essay plough's furrows that I've always been ruminating upon myself throughout my adult life. This time he's documented the obsessive journalling of Robert Shields, a Mid Western, mid-Twentieth Century everyman, who took it upon himself to document every 5 minutes of his life (and in the process created a very sizeable archive of material for posterity).

Diaries of a nobody: Is the unexamined life worth living?

“He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances.” James Joyce (1914) Dubliners He's done it again. My son's lastest YouTube video essay plough's furrows that I've always been ruminating upon…

22.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
CFP for the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography, Concepción, Chile: 17-20 March 2026 “the South should not be reduced to a source of raw data that are to be inserted or simply included into the Northern theory factories” Diana Ojeda & Nicholas Blomley (2024) ‘Grounding legal geography: Conversations on law, space, and power across disparate geographies’. Politics & Space, 42(3):325-333 at 326. I had the pleasure of attending the First International Conference of Critical Legal Geography, which was held in Turin, Italy in February 2024.

CFP for the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography, Concepción, Chile: 17-20 March 2026

“the South should not be reduced to a source of raw data that are to be inserted or simply included into the Northern theory factories” Diana Ojeda & Nicholas Blomley (2024) ‘Grounding…

25.09.2025 15:06 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The lines from the ledge(r): ink, paper, photograph, mountain "I started to draw pictures. Not of people, or buildings or street scenes. Of mountains. It was fun at first, then a fascinating pastime, building a mouontain on a blank sheet of paper...Memories crowd in on you as you delicately bring to life on paper the various features of the mountains you have seen so often. Your pen moves through a mist of dreams..."

The lines from the ledge(r): ink, paper, photograph, mountain

"I started to draw pictures. Not of people, or buildings or street scenes. Of mountains. It was fun at first, then a fascinating pastime, building a mouontain on a blank sheet of paper...Memories crowd in on you as you delicately bring…

26.08.2025 15:36 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Counting the days, my son: competence, diffraction and failures of communication. “Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.” André Breton Noticing. Naming. Counting. That's at the heart of existence, right? We strive to understand the situations that we find ourselves in and then look for patterns.

Counting the days, my son: competence, diffraction and failures of communication.

“Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy…

28.07.2025 14:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
“Two o’clock and all’s well!” On the comforts of the local night watchman Watchman! What of the night? No light we see,-- Our souls are bruised and sickened with the sight Of this foul crime against humanity. The Ways are dark---- "I SEE THE MORNING LIGHT!" John Oxeham (1916) ‘Watchman! What of the night?’ in All’s Well (New York: George H Doran Co) Some nights it feels like you haven’t slept at all. Perhaps your mind is churning on a work or family dilemma.

“Two o’clock and all’s well!” On the comforts of the local night watchman

Watchman! What of the night? No light we see,-- Our souls are bruised and sickened with the sight Of this foul crime against humanity. The Ways are dark---- "I SEE THE MORNING LIGHT!" John Oxeham (1916) ‘Watchman! What of…

23.05.2025 13:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Is it hard to enforce the law dressed as a cartoon animal? "This counter-reverie, this turn back towards the serious rather than the fanciful, is something that contemporary British psychogeographic writings mention only with distain (if they address it at all), but for a legal geographer this is the moment of law’s spatialization, this is the moment where law appears to consciousness and most clearly acts upon actor, via colonisation of their subjectivity.

Is it hard to enforce the law dressed as a cartoon animal?

"This counter-reverie, this turn back towards the serious rather than the fanciful, is something that contemporary British psychogeographic writings mention only with distain (if they address it at all), but for a legal geographer this is…

25.04.2025 15:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Is ‘TARIFF’ Actually The Most Beautiful Word In The Dictionary?
YouTube video by Disambi Is ‘TARIFF’ Actually The Most Beautiful Word In The Dictionary?

@muellershewrote.com here’s a lighter retort to the tariff shit show: It’s not tariffs, it’s not love, it’s actually cellar-door…. This short video investigates the actual most beautiful ‘word’ in the English language youtu.be/vyR1fg2fWmA?....

06.04.2025 07:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Pleading in the bin store: everyday compliance and futurity "The Building circular – an iron cage, glazed – a glass lantern about the size of Ranelagh – The Prisoners in their Cells, occupying the Circumference – The Officers, the Centre. By Blinds, and other contrivances, the Inspectors concealed from the observation of the Prisoners: hence the sentiment of a sort of invisible omnipresence. – The whole circuit reviewable with little, or, if necessary, without any, change of places."

Pleading in the bin store: everyday compliance and futurity

"The Building circular – an iron cage, glazed – a glass lantern about the size of Ranelagh – The Prisoners in their Cells, occupying the Circumference – The Officers, the Centre. By Blinds, and other contrivances, the Inspectors concealed…

26.03.2025 10:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Legal Geography – a Place-first approach “It is time to address the places of law and ask: How and why does place matter in legal geographical scholarship? What can be found beyond the generic legal places? And What are the unexplor…

Thanks @paivikymalainen.bsky.social - some of the images are here, lukebennett13.wordpress.com/2025/02/27/l... but there will be a few more in my RSA presentation. I’ll send you the full set when finalised.

02.03.2025 13:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@paivikymalainen.bsky.social thanks for your recent paper in Progress in Human Geography - I’ve had a go at translating your ‘four viewpoints’ on place in Legal Geography into a sequence of images…

01.03.2025 17:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Legal Geography – a Place-first approach "It is time to address the places of law and ask: How and why does place matter in legal geographical scholarship? What can be found beyond the generic legal places? And What are the unexplored or underused potentials of place in legal geography?" Päivi Kymäläinen (2025) 'Legal geography II: The possibilities and disruptions of place' Progress in Human Geography, DOI: 10.1177/03091325251320244…

Legal Geography – a Place-first approach

"It is time to address the places of law and ask: How and why does place matter in legal geographical scholarship? What can be found beyond the generic legal places? And What are the unexplored or underused potentials of place in legal geography?" Päivi…

27.02.2025 12:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Why Writers Are Obsessed With The Phrase “Cellar Door”
YouTube video by Dis-ambi Why Writers Are Obsessed With The Phrase “Cellar Door”

It’s not tariffs, it’s not love, it’s actually cellar-door…. This short video investigates the most beautiful ‘word’ in the English language youtu.be/vyR1fg2fWmA?.... @stephenfry.bsky.social

22.02.2025 14:45 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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