Over the past decade and more, the term “research-creation” has gained increasing traction as a descriptor for work that combines conventional scholarly inquiry with experimental, art-based practices. Some commentators have heralded research-creation…
This issue brings together contributions that question the materialities of digital technologies, and the ecological, class, racial and gender concerns that run through them.
From the seminal “cloud” metaphor to green buttons and blue thumbs-up emojis, our interactions and dominant discourses around the digital embody a specific capitalistic agenda: the one of technology as a commodity…
This contribution looks at digital technology through the prism of waste and waste’s potential. The contribution is based on a case study from an ethnographic survey that Bloch has been conducting with Thibault…
Voyage Voyage (Desireless, 1987) functions performatively: it’s less about convincing the listeners to explore the world one day than about allowing them to take a virtual journey with the singer, one that…
The author reflects on the ‘poetics’ of the round-the-world trip, showing that Orelsan’s La Terre est ronde (2011) is part of a long tradition of both literature and tourism which produces a…
Pieroni of HEAD – Genève discusses the many links between music and geography with Pilet, of Bongo Joe Records.
Exhibiting popular music raises methodological and museographic questions, which the author explores through the example of the exhibition, “Voyage enchanté. Chansons et imaginaires géographiques” (“Enchanted Journey. Songs and Geographical Imagination”) presented in…
At the heart of the enchanted geography lies the relationship between songs and places as well as their effects on the world.
Anthony Masure and Guillaume Helleu present their research project that focuses on using video game platforms and cultures to explore the humanities and social sciences.