I was asked to post my post-structuralist disaster slides just to see what they look like. I am not so sure they are going to make sense (you can click on them to see them more clearly), but I did make a few adjustments and colour coded one. The first is relatively straightforward, if you like words like nexus and compression. The second slide reveals the paradigm the best, but it was originally intended to be animated as I spoke to the points. So, you might want to view the different mobility systems as surfaces, the arrows as directions to look through those surfaces, or from one surface (mobility) to another, and finally, the two way arrows and the bracket type things simply denote different interactions, and the words the contexts or effects they produce. Just don’t think too hard!
Simple grid
Paradigm
Since those slides are confusing and not the best, I thought I would redeem this post and display *these* slides of my Ismael book presentation, so far my best ones of the semester, and the imagery was aided by my PhD cohort. I believe my speaking points were “look at the dude: he is wearing sunglasses and a housecoat, drinking milk from the carton in the supermarket. Imagine how disconnected from the world he is.” I think the students really got it. And the gorilla? It took me a while of searching to find such a wise looking gorilla (although no idea as the the accuracy of whether it is the correct type of gorilla).
Beyond post-structuralism, geography is making me broaden my horizons even more. I have to learn how to use a stereoscope for tomorrow in order to examine aerial photographs with the students. The photos are sort of like those pictures that you had to stare at with your finger between your eyes so it would go blurry, and then you see in 3D, only the stereoscope is thick lenses, like coke bottle glasses. It sort ofmakes me nauseous to stare through it, but according to the professor, this is like a rite of passage for geographers. And now I might actually have something to say when I tell people I study geography, and they immediately start talking to me about maps.
