Comments on: Live-blogging the Readings: Miller (2011)

By: MScDERM Week 1: Responding to Selwyn | Sandpit space for MScDE, University of Edinburgh

Sun, 18 Jan 2015 07:38:58 +0000

[…] self ranting about most often is 5: ‘maintains a sense of history’. (See my rant about mobile GPS systems for ECD, or this rant about the history of interactive reading that I first wrote for […]

By: Katherine

Katherine — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 00:01:36 +0000

Thanks Sian! Yes, I had some of the Sheller and Urry I had read for IDEL in mind as I was writing this, so I’ll get down to the Library and find out more! (The Wikipedia entry is very good–as it so often is for social theory).
I am also thinking about trying to read some Borges on the map and the territory (online is the map the territory?).
I haven’t quite worked out what my approach is for this semester. I’m always most interested in social history and taking a post-Marxist approach (sometimes it’s feminist, sometimes it’s post-colonial, sometimes it’s about social capital), but I find that there are so many ways of taking that further through the theoretical models I encounter in the course, so I’m trying various approaches on for size in each module.

By: Sian Bayne

Sian Bayne — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 10:00:19 +0000

Nice post, and I particularly like your explanation of your writing approach here, and the distinction between route and map. Is this an approach that you plan to pursue throughout the course this semester?

I enjoyed your ‘rant’ on the over-stated claims for transformation through mobile phones. It made me think you might enjoy delving into the ‘mobilities’ paradigm in social science – the overview on wikipedia isn’t bad – as this develops a nuanced take on the question of mobility, which equally concerns itself with ‘moorings’ and the co-dependence of stability and flux. John Urry’s book – Mobilities – is the key text here.