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Dr Martin Coward
Senior Lecturer in International Politics
Director of Postgraduate Research, Politics
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Newcastle University
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
NE1 7RU
Phone
ext. 8824 [(0191) 222 8824 from off campus]
Office
Politics Building, Room W1.30
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Ash and infrastructure
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010The ongoing disruption caused by volcanic ash has demonstrated some of the ways in which contemporary urban life is constituted by its infrastructures. Similar in many ways to Don DeLillo’s Airborne Toxic Event, the cloud from Eyjafjallajökull has reinforced the manner in which our sense of self is tied up in the things and circuits that keep us mobile and fed. (more…)
Tags: apocalyspe, Eyjafjallajökull, infrastructure, networks, volcanic ash
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