Jose Luis Romanillos
Biographic Data
| ID | 392173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jose Luis Romanillos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jose Luis |
| FAMILY NAME | Romanillos |
| SIGNATURE | ROMANILLOS J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7188-6222 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Geography and the classics?
This paper examines the interdisciplinary relationship between geography and ‘the classics’. It attends to the relative paucity of (re)engagements with antiquity from geographers, even as ‘geography’ continues to be an active arena of investigation for classicists and ancient historians. It explores how certain disciplinary features of modern geography reinforce epistemological breaks between ancient and modern geographical thought. Drawing upon …
Negativity: Space, Politics and Affects
This paper reflects on the status of 'negativity' in contemporary social and geographical thought. Based on a panel discussion held at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2021, each contributor discusses what negativity means to them, and considers its various legacies and potential future trajectories. Along the way, the contributors offer ways of attending to negative spaces (voids, abysses, absences), affects (vulnerabilitie…
Mortal questions: Geographies on the other side of life
Drawing upon resources from philosophy, sociology, history, and anthropology, this paper explores the possibilities of attending to geographies on the other side of life. After an introductory review of work on deathscapes and extant geographical reflections on absence and loss, the paper turns to consider three horizons in which geographers might extend their interrogations of different mortal conditions: mourning, the spatial politics of the de…
Nihilism and modernity: Louis‐Ferdinand Céline's Journey to the end of the night
This paper explores Louis‐Ferdinand Céline's 1932 Journey to the end of the night within the context of growing work on the literary geographies of modernity. The paper argues that Céline's novel can be productively aligned with other texts such as Ulysses or Heart of darkness as a way of thinking about the experiences of modernity in terms of a spatial disorientation that provokes new kinds of writing. At the same time, Céline's novel is distinc…
Geography, Death, and Finitude
Despite growing interest in the geographies of death, loss, and remembrance, comparatively little geographical research has been devoted either to the historical and cultural practices of death, or to an adequate conceptualisation of finitude. Responding to these absences, in this paper I argue for the importance of the notion of finitude within the history and philosophy of geographical thought. Situating finitude initially in the context of the…
Videogames, visuality and screens: Reconstructing the Amazon in physical geographical knowledge
In this article we attend to an emergent practice of visualising GIS data in physical geography using the graphics engine of a videogame, Crysis. We suggest these modes of image‐making aid the possibility of imagining and disseminating complex geographical data differently by re‐contextualising seemingly abstract mathematical information within a human horizon of embodied meaning. Furthermore we argue these ways of imagining are closely linked to…
Outside, it is Snowing: Experience and Finitude in the Nonrepresentational Landscapes of Alain Robbe-Grillet
This paper presents and explicates the anonymous and impersonal spatialities tentatively mapped in the novels of Alain Robbe-Grillet. Emerging from the kinds of landscapes and visualities articulated, these spatialities are at odds with the kind of anthropocentrism characteristic of phenomenological narratives of spatial experience that would start from an apparently stable human-subject position. It is argued that his body of literature dismantl…
Negativity: Space, Politics and Affects
This paper reflects on the status of 'negativity' in contemporary social and geographical thought. Based on a panel discussion held at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2021, each contributor discusses what negativity means to them, and considers its various legacies and potential future trajectories. Along the way, the contributors offer ways of attending to negative spaces (voids, abysses, absences), affects (vulnerabilitie…
Mortal questions: Geographies on the other side of life
Drawing upon resources from philosophy, sociology, history, and anthropology, this paper explores the possibilities of attending to geographies on the other side of life. After an introductory review of work on deathscapes and extant geographical reflections on absence and loss, the paper turns to consider three horizons in which geographers might extend their interrogations of different mortal conditions: mourning, the spatial politics of the de…
Geography, Death, and Finitude
Despite growing interest in the geographies of death, loss, and remembrance, comparatively little geographical research has been devoted either to the historical and cultural practices of death, or to an adequate conceptualisation of finitude. Responding to these absences, in this paper I argue for the importance of the notion of finitude within the history and philosophy of geographical thought. Situating finitude initially in the context of the…
Outside, it is Snowing: Experience and Finitude in the Nonrepresentational Landscapes of Alain Robbe-Grillet
This paper presents and explicates the anonymous and impersonal spatialities tentatively mapped in the novels of Alain Robbe-Grillet. Emerging from the kinds of landscapes and visualities articulated, these spatialities are at odds with the kind of anthropocentrism characteristic of phenomenological narratives of spatial experience that would start from an apparently stable human-subject position. It is argued that his body of literature dismantl…
Videogames, visuality and screens: Reconstructing the Amazon in physical geographical knowledge
In this article we attend to an emergent practice of visualising GIS data in physical geography using the graphics engine of a videogame, Crysis. We suggest these modes of image‐making aid the possibility of imagining and disseminating complex geographical data differently by re‐contextualising seemingly abstract mathematical information within a human horizon of embodied meaning. Furthermore we argue these ways of imagining are closely linked to…
Nihilism and modernity: Louis‐Ferdinand Céline's Journey to the end of the night
This paper explores Louis‐Ferdinand Céline's 1932 Journey to the end of the night within the context of growing work on the literary geographies of modernity. The paper argues that Céline's novel can be productively aligned with other texts such as Ulysses or Heart of darkness as a way of thinking about the experiences of modernity in terms of a spatial disorientation that provokes new kinds of writing. At the same time, Céline's novel is distinc…
Outside, it is Snowing: Experience and Finitude in the Nonrepresentational Landscapes of Alain Robbe-Grillet
This paper presents and explicates the anonymous and impersonal spatialities tentatively mapped in the novels of Alain Robbe-Grillet. Emerging from the kinds of landscapes and visualities articulated, these spatialities are at odds with the kind of anthropocentrism characteristic of phenomenological narratives of spatial experience that would start from an apparently stable human-subject position. It is argued that his body of literature dismantl…
Videogames, visuality and screens: Reconstructing the Amazon in physical geographical knowledge
In this article we attend to an emergent practice of visualising GIS data in physical geography using the graphics engine of a videogame, Crysis. We suggest these modes of image‐making aid the possibility of imagining and disseminating complex geographical data differently by re‐contextualising seemingly abstract mathematical information within a human horizon of embodied meaning. Furthermore we argue these ways of imagining are closely linked to…
Geography, Death, and Finitude
Despite growing interest in the geographies of death, loss, and remembrance, comparatively little geographical research has been devoted either to the historical and cultural practices of death, or to an adequate conceptualisation of finitude. Responding to these absences, in this paper I argue for the importance of the notion of finitude within the history and philosophy of geographical thought. Situating finitude initially in the context of the…
Nihilism and modernity: Louis‐Ferdinand Céline's Journey to the end of the night
This paper explores Louis‐Ferdinand Céline's 1932 Journey to the end of the night within the context of growing work on the literary geographies of modernity. The paper argues that Céline's novel can be productively aligned with other texts such as Ulysses or Heart of darkness as a way of thinking about the experiences of modernity in terms of a spatial disorientation that provokes new kinds of writing. At the same time, Céline's novel is distinc…
Mortal questions: Geographies on the other side of life
Drawing upon resources from philosophy, sociology, history, and anthropology, this paper explores the possibilities of attending to geographies on the other side of life. After an introductory review of work on deathscapes and extant geographical reflections on absence and loss, the paper turns to consider three horizons in which geographers might extend their interrogations of different mortal conditions: mourning, the spatial politics of the de…
Negativity: Space, Politics and Affects
This paper reflects on the status of 'negativity' in contemporary social and geographical thought. Based on a panel discussion held at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2021, each contributor discusses what negativity means to them, and considers its various legacies and potential future trajectories. Along the way, the contributors offer ways of attending to negative spaces (voids, abysses, absences), affects (vulnerabilitie…
Geography and the classics?
This paper examines the interdisciplinary relationship between geography and ‘the classics’. It attends to the relative paucity of (re)engagements with antiquity from geographers, even as ‘geography’ continues to be an active arena of investigation for classicists and ancient historians. It explores how certain disciplinary features of modern geography reinforce epistemological breaks between ancient and modern geographical thought. Drawing upon …
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