'Affective encounters' : live intermedial spaces in sites of trauma

This article addresses live intermediality as a tool for creative learning in the context of workshops carried out with young people in the town of Terezin, in the Czech Republic, site of the Nazi concentration camp, Theresienstadt. Live intermediality, as a mode of live media practice, involves the real time mixing and merging of sound, image, text and body, with a particular focus on the intersection between digital and physical modes. Employing both a written exposition and intermedial materials, in the form of a ‘video-text’, the article reflects on, positions and opens up this practice, specifically in relation to the ‘affective encounters’ (Bennett 2005, 37) it generated between the workshop participants and the ‘traces of past people and events’ (Simon, Rosenberg and Eppert 2000, 7) in Terezin. In doing so, I propose that live intermediality, with its emphasis on the real time mixing of diverse elements and responses, has a particular capacity to generate creative practice which is ‘transactive’ (Bennett 2007, 5) and where affect ‘flow[s] through bodies and spaces, rather than residing within a single subject’ (Bennett 2005, 13). With its focus on ‘the act of doing as the generator of meaning’ (Bryon 2014, 214), this practice prompted ‘affective encounters’ with aspects of the past trauma of Terezin, through the participants’ live intermedial creation, in and in response to the present site

Globalization trends and regional development - dynamics of FDI and human capital flows

This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in [European Journal of Development Research]. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [European Journal of Development Research 26, 160-161 (January 2014)] is available online at: http://www.palgravejournals.com/ejdr/journal/v26/n1/full/ejdr201354a.htmlApparently rendered irrelevant by globalization, regions have been rediscovered as a force in economic and social development by both scholars and policymakers. Localized inter-personal ties and networks are seen as important resources (Woolcock and Narayan, 2000), and the local supply of entrepreneurs has emerged as a key determinant of future economic growth (Chatterji et al, 2013)

Dispersed and dislocated: the construction of liveness in live intermedial performance

This article focuses on an analysis of the live intermedial performance, The Mark of Affect. Using the theories of Philip Auslander (2008), Erika Fischer-Lichte (2008) and Roberta Mock (in Power 2008) as a starting point, three moments from the performance are analysed in relation to liveness; specifically, how it is constructed and manifests itself within this performance. In all cases, the combinations of live and mediatised acts are seen as creating hybrid forms of liveness, which exist both within and through the technology employed on stage

Ligatures of the Early Modern Book

This article proposes that the early modern book was constituted of numerous forms of stringing, tying and binding. Exploring ligatures at the level of the printed or handwritten letter-form, the stitching, the binding and the clasps or ties that served to open and close the book, I argue that books were not merely bound in to their containing volumes but were also bound outwards to material environments and social networks. The interlaced designs on decorative bookbindings are read as meditations on a connectedness that was actualized in shared ownership or giftgiving. Clasps turned the book into a box, and an apt metaphor for the human heart, while silk ties connected the book into the worlds of clothing and textiles. While our experience of connective communication is now dominated by the Internet, there are some signs that the material book is fighting back