Vulgar geographies? Popular cultural geographies and technology

Software-sorted geographies

This paper explores the central role of computerized code in shaping the social and geographical politics of inequality in advanced societies. The central argument is that, while such processes are necessarily multifaceted, multiscaled, complex and ambivalent, a great variety of ‘software-sorting’ techniques is now being widely applied in efforts to try to separate privileged and marginalized g...

Cultural geographies of economies: Performing transnational market b/orders

Sorites paradox and vague geographies

The sorites paradox is ranked among the top ve paradoxes of philosophy (Sainsbury, Paradoxes, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995). It is simply stated as ‘what is a heap’. Deriving from the paradox is a de nition of vagueness, which is contrary to the Boolean concept of the world implicit in much geographical teaching and thought, and the representation of geographical informa...

Towards geographies of cyberspace

This article uses two cyberspatial technologies, namely, the Internet (the global network of connected computers), and its close cousins, intranets (closed, private corporate telematic networks), to illustrate the ways in which geographers have engaged, and could engage, with studies of cyberspace. Virtual reality technologies are not discussed explicitly as, in the main, they are still at an e...

Nonrepresentational Theory/Nonrepresentational Geographies

Glossary Affect The pre-personal capacity for bodies to be affected (by other bodies) and, in turn, affect (other bodies). This capacity for affecting and being affected subsequently defines what a body is and can do. Everyday Life The setting for the routine and mundane, but also improvised and transformative practices. Immanence A concept which seeks to overcome all divisions, dualisms, and c...