Monthly Archives: June 2013

Phallocentric Space: Any Contest Over Power is a Contest Over Space

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
Torre Agbar in Barcelona. Photo from http://www.nextstop-barcelona.com/torre-agbar-barcelona/ In order to continue the recent thread of posts on sex and the city, I am sharing the following excerpt from an article I wrote in 2009 that can be found…

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Darwin:A Geographer

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Charles Darwin became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1838. He became involved in a wide variety of geographical matters, ranging from publication of his ‘Note on a Rock Seen on an Iceberg in 61o South Latitude’ … Continue reading →

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Gulliver’s travels in science and satire

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on teleskopos:
Cross posted from The H Word blog. For historians of science, Jonathan Swift’s book Gulliver’s Travels is well known both as a work of what we might call proto-science fiction and as a satire on the experimental philosophy that was…