Nigel Thrift
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The experimental maps produced by artists working with locative media both bear witness to and participate in a radical reworking of the way in which space is conceived and encountered that destabilizes longstanding assumptions about the... more
What is the relationship between Mizrahi feminism and Israeli ultranationalism? What is the relevance of gender justice activism to the 2014 Gaza War and Israel’s foreign policy? Wrapped in the Flag of Israel Second Edition examines... more
This paper argues that, in order to take place, space and scale more seriously in the study of our discipline, we have to complement the pervasive understanding of geography as a tradition of thought or an extended conversation with an... more
This paper enquires into the history of clock-time through a critical engagement with Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift’s Shaping the Day. The paper delineates the contours of an approach to the history of clock-time based on an analysis of... more
The last 20 years have witnessed a deepening of the imbrication between capital and the university. This paper seeks to map one point at which this binding occurs: in critical theory. Recently scholars in strategic management have turned... more
The passing of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej on October 13, 2016 marked a significant turning point in modern Thai history. As the world’s longest-reigning monarch, King Bhumibol had been much loved and revered as the country’s... more
This intervention contributes to recent work in urban geography that integrates the conceptual frameworks of assemblages and actor-network theory by highlighting two additional directions that require a more rigorous and detailed... more
In this article I propose we rethink the nature of the individual human subject in a landscape where cognition has been distributed (Hutchins, Clark), individuality has been transformed into associations between heterogeneous actors, and... more
In this essay, I propose an approach which, dismantling some of the (often implicit) representational assumptions that have proven inadequate to account for the performative aspects of locative media, articulates representation... more
The city has become a defining feature of contemporary human experience, supporting diverse risk and enabling environments. Whilst urban risk environments have been the subject of numerous innovative research projects in recent years, the... more
This text draws together a set of characteristics that can be used as building blocks for a conceptual model of Affect Space. I have previously described Affect Space as an emerging techno-sensuous spatial order. Here I build upon these... more
Desde la teoría de los afectos, del nuevo materialismo y de la antropología simétrica, se propone una historia de las emociones de y desde la arquitectura racionalista (modernista), en términos de una historia de la experiencia subjetiva... more
This is an excerpt from The DARKROOM (Contra Mundum Press 2021, translated with Alta Ifland) a book that translates for the first time into English the screenplay for Marguerite Duras’ 1977 radically experimental film Le camion (The... more
In this article, we engage with notions of space, affect, and waste in relation to academic research. Specifically, we seek to make present the ignored and absent aspects of our daily lives and experiences. We pay particular attention to... more
Critical and cultural criminologists have, in recent years, begun to address the various interrelationships between criminality and consumer culture (Hayward, 2004; Hall et al., 2008), whilst at the same time offering more nuanced and... more
Instead of concurring with the stance of the overall rejection of formal institutions, Nigel Thrift poses the question of “how one can rework institutions and their work ethic in order for them to be appropriate to our times”. As a... more