David is currently working on a book project called ‘Out Of It’ that is exploring the spatial politics of passive affects through situations of brain fog, headache, jet lag, anxiety and sunstroke. This session will consider hallucination as a way of thinking about changing perceptual worlds whilst connecting with ideas of habits and their undoing. David will speak for about 15 mins about hallucination and its relevance for geography/mobility before posing some questions for the group to think about in terms of bodily perception and mobility.

Short bio:

David Bissell is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Melbourne and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He is a cultural geographer whose work explores how different kinds of mobilities transform people and places. Empirically, David collaborates with research teams who are investigating the evolving nature of mobile lives and technological futures—from digital on-demand mobile labour and working from home, to the rise of automated workplaces. Conceptually, David works with theories of affect and embodiment to develop ways of understanding overlooked forms of bodily dispossession. David is the author of Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities (MIT Press, 2018), co-editor of Negative Geographies: Exploring the Politics of Limits (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), the Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (Routledge, 2014) and Stillness in a Mobile World (Routledge, 2011), and he is managing editor of Social & Cultural Geography.

Pls see link for further details about David’s visiting professorship at the University of Bristol:
www.bristol.ac.uk/international-research-development/visiting-researchers/visitors-for-202425/david_bissell