Towards a post-mathematical topology

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Living Together in the Topological Home

“…territorial, networked, and fluid (e.g. Mol and Law, 1994;Shields, 1997Shields, , 2013Häkli, 2008;Martin and Secor, 2013), or topology and topography may be seen as simultaneous spatial realities in the life of societies, institutions, and people (e.g. Desforges et al, 2005;Allen, 2011;Giaccaria and Minca, 2011;Paasi, 2011;Secor, 2013).…”

Farming ruins: a landscape study of incremental urbanisation

“…McFarlane, 2011). The concept of ruin, however, brings forward the specific importance of matter, topography and history, whereas assemblage permits a reduction of any of these aspects, which is problematic in a landscape study (see Martin & Secor, 2014, for a related critique of the use of topology). I therefore use assemblage as a more wide-ranging concept and network ruins to keep the relational study of landscape change on the ground.…”

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“…This reflects the grimly entrenched divisions that plague academia. In the wake of Deleuze and Guattari, Lacan, and Badiou, however, a resurgent interest in the "higher" forms of mathematics within critical theory and critical geography has been evident the last few years, including Secor's own work (Martin and Secor 2014). One critical question she raises is whether "the encounter between psychoanalysis and vitalism" is "one that yields beautiful bastard children, or is it an obliterating encounter in which they both disappear?"…”