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鈥業n a sense we are unique moist packages of animated soil鈥�. These are the alluring words of Francis D. Hole, a professor of soil science renowned for encouraging love for the soil and understanding of its vital importance. Affirming humans as being soil entangles them in substantial commonness. This article explores how altering the imaginaries of soils as inert matter subjected to human use and re-animating the life within them is transforming contemporary human–soil affections by developing a sense of shared aliveness. Presenting research on current practices and stories emerging from scientific accounts, community involvements and artistic manifestations, I propose five emerging motifs of renewed imaginaries of soil鈥檚 aliveness that feed into each other to affirm intimate entanglements of human–soil matter. I argue that while a vision of anthropocenic soils invokes yet another objectified natural resource brought to exhaustion by a deadly human-centred productionist ethos, as soils are re-animated and enlivened, a sense of human–soil entangled and intimate interdependency is intensified. These new involvements with soil鈥檚 aliveness open up a sense of earthy connectedness that animates and re-affects material worlds and foster sense of more than human community.

The air is, in many urban contexts, polluted. Governments and institutions monitor particles and gas concentrations to better understand how they perform in light of air quality guidance and legislation, and to make predictions in terms of future environmental health targets. The visibility of this data is considered crucial for citizens to manage their own health, and a proliferation of new informational forms and apps have been created to achieve this. And yet, beyond everyday decisions (when to use a mask or when to do sports outdoors), it is not clear whether current methods of engaging citizens produce behavioural change or stronger citizen engagement with air pollution. Drawing on the design, construction and ethnography of an urban infrastructure to measure, make visible and remediate particulate matter (PM2.5) through a water vapour cloud that we installed at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017, we examine the effects and affects of producing a public space that allows for physical interaction with data. In Yellow Dust (YD), data of PM2.5 are translated into mist, the density of the mist responsive to the number of particles suspended in the air. Data are made sense/ible in the changing conditions of the air surrounding the infrastructure, which can be experienced in embodied, collective and relational ways, what we call 鈥榤olecular intimacies鈥�. By reflecting on how the infrastructure facilitated new modes of sensing data, we consider how 鈥榙ata intimacies鈥� can re-specify action by producing different forms of engagement with air pollution.

CIM will contribute to the fifth Databeers event in the West Midlands! Our colleague Dr Ren茅 Westerholt will speak about "Plac(e)ing Social Media: Why spatial analysis may not be the best choice for geographic social media analysis". We kindly invite you to join us for this and other interesting talks at the WBS Teaching Centre, room M.1 on **Thursday 7th March at 18:30** to listen to, and share, data stories.

The event is very informal, and getting to know other data enthusiasts is the main goal. There will be 4 interesting talks and lots of free beers and networking time. Please see the webpage for more information: .

The event is free, of course, but we it is required to register as space is limited:

Seeing you there!

Routledge Editorial published for pre-order a book entitled where PhD Candidate of CIM, Nathalie Mezza-Garcia has a book chapter called Self-Organized Collective Action in the Floating Island Project

Last autumn, CIM was transformed into a to produce a video describing our MSc Urban Analytics and Visualisation. We are pleased to present the final result, which you can find below and on . The video briefly talks about Urban Analytics as a subject and describes the innovative, interdisciplinary structure of the course here at CIM. In addition, possible future career paths are highlighted. If you are interested in studying our MSc and looking for a brief, concise overview of our programme, the video is definitely the right place to start!

Naomi Waltham-Smith is giving a paper entitled 鈥淩hythm in Deconstruction鈥� at the College Art Association annual conference in NYC as part of a panel on 鈥淩hythm, Race and Aesthetics of Being Together鈥� with Kris Cohen, Aria Dean, Christian Nyampeta, and John Ricco.

Abstract

In Mendi and Keith Obadike鈥檚 Numbers Station 1 [Furtive Movements], the artists take turns to read a series of numbers excerpted from the logs of self-reported stop-and-frisk data in New York with a dispassionate tone and a machinelike rhythm, the numbers punctuating the electronically generated tones that sonify the data in another way. Connecting this piece with Eric Garner鈥檚 pleas of 鈥淚 can鈥檛 breathe,鈥� Soyoung Yoon has suggested that, as it becomes increasingly difficult to recall the difference between the numbers, 鈥渄ifference becomes a matter of spacing, of taking a breath.鈥� I take the Obadike鈥檚 installation and Yoon鈥檚 reading as an occasion to tease out the significance of rhythm to deconstruction and its central notion of difference as spacing.

Specifically, I trace two intertwined conceptions of rhythm that operate in the thought of Derrida and Lacoue-Labarthe and whose proximity the sound installation makes audible. The first is the idea of listening as auscultation, as a rhythmic percussion attuned to the cadence and resonance of breathing. Derrida evokes this figure in a number of places, especially in the essay 鈥淭ympan鈥� and his introduction to Lacoue-Larbarthe鈥檚 Typography, to capture the subject鈥檚 condition of (im)possibility as pulsation. But this beat, as Nancy reminds us, is always syncopated. Reading Derrida鈥檚 meditations on rhythm in Glas alongside Numbers Station 1, I show how the pulse tends to become arrhythmic—how the auscultation of black lives tends towards the chokehold and the irregular gasps and splutterings Derrida opposes to the harmonious resonance of a struck bell.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Place-Based Analysis

Two months remain to submit contributions for a special issue on place-based analysis, which will be convened by Dr Ren茅 Westerholt in collaboration with colleagues from Heidelberg, Dresden, Leeds and Winchester. The special issue will be published with the Wiley journal and the submission deadline is 30 March. Below you find the detailed Call-for-Papers:

A PLACE FOR PLACE - MODELLING AND ANALYSING PLATIAL REPRESENTATIONS

Places are understood as locations and areas to which anthropogenic meaning is ascribed. As such, places have been of central interest to philosophers and geographers for a long time, and a large stack of mostly discursive and qualitative literature evolved around this topic. Talking about digital and formal representations of places, however, the inherent vagueness of the aforementioned definition has so far hindered significant progress towards a platial notion of GIS. Place as a concept in the field of GIScience is therefore still in its infancy. Some progress has been made recently, but a consistent theory of how to characterise, represent and utilize places in formal ways is still lacking. A place-based account of GIS and analysis is nevertheless important in the light of the plethora of increasingly place-based information that we have available in an increasingly digital world. Digital technologies are nowadays strongly integrated into everyday life. As a result, a large number of especially urban datasets (e.g., geosocial media feeds, online blogs, etc.) mirror to some degree how people utilise places in subjective and idiosyncratic manners. Taking full advantage of these often user-generated datasets requires a thorough understanding of places. It also makes apparent the pressing need for respective models of representation, analytical approaches, and visualisation methods. This demand reflected by recent events like the PLATIAL'18 workshop (see: ) lays out the motivation of convening this special issue.

We are seeking your original contributions on the following topics (and beyond if fitting):

• How can we move forward the integration of platial information with GIS?
• How can we integrate and align GIScience notions of place with existing human-geographic and philosophical notions?
• How is it possible to establish and quantify relationships between adjacent places?
• What might be a suitable strategy for aggregating subjective platial information?
• What roles do uncertainty and fuzziness take in a platial theory of geoinformation?
• In which ways can places be visualised, and how can we do that at multiple scales?
• What can we learn about places from volunteered and ambient geographic information?
• How can platial analysis be integrated with applied research agendas from neighbouring disciplines like sociology, urban planning, or human geography?
• (Further topics are welcome if they fit the overall theme of this workshop.)

IMPORTANT DATES AND ANTICIPATED TIMELINE

30 March 2019 Deadline: Full paper submission
15 June 2019 Anticipated paper acceptance notification
1 July 2019 Camera-ready papers are due
1 August (anticipated) Publication of the special issue

GUEST EDITORS

Rene WESTERHOLT 91福利 rene.westerholt@warwick.ac.uk
Franz-Benjamin MOCNIK Heidelberg University mocnik@uni-heidelberg.de
Alexis COMBER University of Leeds a.comber@leeds.ac.uk
Clare DAVIES University of Winchester clare.davies@winchester.ac.uk
Dirk BURGHARDT TU Dresden dirk.burghardt@tu-dresden.de
Alexander ZIPF Heidelberg University zipf@uni-heidelberg.de

Celia Lury (Professor, CIM) has published a new paper entitled 'Algorithmic personalization as a mode of individuation' in the journal Theory, Culture and Society and can be found online .

The abstract of the paper is

Recognizing that many of the modern categories with which we think about people and their activities were put in place through the use of numbers, we ask how numbering practices compose contemporary sociality. Focusing on particular forms of algorithmic personalization, we describe a pathway of a-typical individuation in which repeated and recursive tracking is used to create partial orders in which individuals are always more and less than one. Algorithmic personalization describes a mode of numbering that involves forms of de- and re- aggregating, in which a variety of contexts are continually included and excluded. This pathway of a-typical individuation is important, we suggest, to a variety of domains and, more broadly, to an understanding of contemporary economies of sharing where the politics of collectivities, ownership and use are being reconfigured as a default social.

Giovanni Formilan (Research Fellow, CIM) has published a new book chapter entitles 'A Methodological Essay on the Application of Social Sequence Analysis to the Study of Creative Trajectories' in Handbook of Research Methods on Creativity edited by V. D枚rfler and M. Stierand. The paper may be found .

The abstract of the chapter as follows:

In this essay, we present and illustrate a few applications of social sequence analysis (SSA) to the study of creativity. Focusing on complete sequences of events rather than on localized situations, SSA enables the analytical treatment of creativity as a process that unfolds over time, offering a fuller representation of temporal dynamics of creativity than is typically possible with other methods such as event history analysis, repeated measures, or panel design methods. We suggest that SSA holds great promise for research on creative industries, as it is particularly well suited to detect similarities among diverse creative trajectories while at the same time preserving their singularities. To substantiate our suggestions we employ data from the underground electronic music to examine trajectories of stylistic variation and illustrate how to implement sequence methods to augment and/or complement other research designs. Our purpose is to stimulate interest in SSA and encourage its application to the study of creativity at the individual, organizational and industry level.

Formilan G., Ferriani, S. and Cattani, G. (2019). A methodological essay on the application of social sequence analysis to the study of creative trajectories. In D枚rfler, V. and Stierand, M. (eds.). Handbook of Research Methods on Creativity, Edward Elgar Publishing.

Following the recent #shameonyouwarwick debate, we want to express our solidarity with the women affected, as well as with our colleagues and students in the departments more directly involved.

We understand there are confidential aspects to this case that can鈥檛 be made public, which may limit our capacity to judge this matter.

But it is crucial that we speak out, especially in the current context in which the university has such a vital role to play as an advocate of rights, well-being and diversity.

We join our peers in the 91福利 community to urge the University to stand by these values in words as well as deeds.

Noortje Marres

Head of Department, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies

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