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Careful what you kick at – a short rant about anti-health & safety culture

Tuning into the 10 o’clock news last night to marvel at how a businessman could sell millions of pounds of bogus bomb detectors to strife torn countries around the world, I lingered through the weathe… more →

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Careful what you kick at – a short rant about anti-health & safety culture — 1 comment

lukebennett13 wrote 3 weeks ago: Tuning into the 10 o’clock news last night to marvel at how a businessman could sell millions of pou … more →

Tags: Law & place, Law Things, meaning-making

Art + Law / SLSA Slides: connecting mundane law, everyday aesthetics and objectification — 1 comment

lukebennett13 wrote 2 months ago: Here are my slides from the 15 May 2013 Art + Law Symposium. In my presentation I tentatively explor … more →

Tags: Law & place, Metal theft, Built Environments, pillage, Law Things, meaning-making, Mines & Quarries, Cliffs, crags and crevasses, Territory

Craterology & Legal Geography – searching for law and other meaning in quarries and elsewhere — 4 comments

lukebennett13 wrote 4 months ago: I’ve spent a lot of time writing about bunkers and bunker-hunters in recent years, so it is with a t … more →

Tags: Law & place, Built Environments, Urban Exploration, Law Things, meaning-making, Mines & Quarries, wandering, Cliffs, crags and crevasses, Fences, railings & parapets

Going backstage – thoughts on searching for a small room

lukebennett13 wrote 5 months ago: This is one of those essay ideas that springs to mind and meets an immediate voice of caution. No on … more →

Tags: Law & place, Built Environments, Urban Exploration, meaning-making, wandering, Tracework, Territory, Dwelling, house & home

"It was willingly that I crossed over into the darkness of danger" - thoughts on the anti-aesthetics of electricity sub-stations — 2 comments

lukebennett13 wrote 6 months ago: Aargh, she’s done it again. There I was happily sitting eating my Sunday breakfast, content in … more →

Tags: Law & place, Materiality & memory, Metal theft, Infrastructure, Bunkers, Built Environments, pillage, Urban Exploration, Law Things

'Risk, Liability and Outdoor Adventure' BMC Conference - notes and slideshow

lukebennett13 wrote 6 months ago: “The pursuit of an unrestrained culture of blame and compensation has many evil consequences a … more →

Tags: Law & place, Urban Exploration, meaning-making, wandering, Cliffs, crags and crevasses, Territory, Climbing, parkour and other playscaping

New uses for old bunkers #21: geocaching and memory-work in German Cold War bunkers

lukebennett13 wrote 8 months ago: This short post is a signpost to Gunnar Maus’ account of his investigation of geocaching and o … more →

Tags: Materiality & memory, Metal theft, Abandoned Buildings, Bunkers, Urban Exploration, meaning-making, wandering, Enthusiasm, Climbing, parkour and other playscaping

Stories of owning and dwelling: a plantation hilltop near Boston and a car park near Torquay

lukebennett13 wrote 9 months ago: I’ve just finished reading a book entitled Trespassing – an inquiry into the private ownership of la … more →

Tags: ANT, OOO and Thingology, Archives, repositories and data stores, Dwelling, house & home, Ghosts of place, Law & place, Materiality & memory, meaning-making, Melancholia & nostalgia, Roads

Rock, Paper, Scissors - writing lines on stone — 2 comments

lukebennett13 wrote 10 months ago: “Dinorwig Quarry slates’s massive broken hands spread on a mountainside but I cannot rea … more →

Tags: ANT, OOO and Thingology, Cliffs, crags and crevasses, Climbing, parkour and other playscaping, Enthusiasm, Fences, railings & parapets, Law & place, Materiality & memory, meaning-making, Mines & Quarries

The Creativity of Property: 26th June.

lukebennett13 wrote 10 months ago: Reblogged from SPATIALDISJUNCTURES: On the 26th of June I participated in the Creativity of Property … more →

Tags: Law & place, Materiality & memory, meaning-making, Fences, railings & parapets, Tracework, Territory, Dwelling, house & home

Everything in its place – an affective trip to EICA, Ratho — 2 comments

lukebennett13 wrote 10 months ago: “Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things. It is caught in the fabric of the world.” (Mer … more →

Tags: Materiality & memory, Built Environments, meaning-making, Mines & Quarries, wandering, Cliffs, crags and crevasses, Tracework

Wrought - confessions of a wandering mind (Art and Work Symposium)

lukebennett13 wrote 10 months ago: I spoke at the Occursus/Art Sheffield symposium today on ‘Art and Work’. Big thanks to t … more →

Tags: Law & place, Materiality & memory, Urban Exploration, meaning-making, wandering, Fences, railings & parapets, Travel and distance, Tracework, Ghosts of place

Tracework - a forthcoming collaboration with Katja Hock — 4 comments

lukebennett13 wrote 11 months ago:         I’m very pleased to announce that photographer Katja Hock and I are planning to collab … more →

Tags: Abandoned Buildings, ANT, OOO and Thingology, Built Environments, Cliffs, crags and crevasses, Law & place, Materiality & memory, meaning-making, scree, Tracework

Not my home, but... – on reading, remembering and using never before visited places

lukebennett13 wrote 11 months ago: This blog-essay is about meaning-making and tries to capture how in the first few hours I drew heavi … more →

Tags: ANT, OOO and Thingology, dirt. dust, Dwelling, house & home, Ghosts of place, Law & place, Materiality & memory, meaning-making, Melancholia & nostalgia, Mourning & place

Virtually on the ledge at El Camino del Rey – sublime wondering and the wandering semantic.

lukebennett13 wrote 1 year ago: A few years ago an elderly (but sprightly) uncle sent me a link to Daniel Ahnen’s famous POV (first … more →

Tags: Law & place, Infrastructure, Urban Exploration, virtual worlds, meaning-making, Mines & Quarries, reservoirs, wandering, Cliffs, crags and crevasses

Making somewhere smaller – ownership, use and the challenge of surplus space

lukebennett13 wrote 1 year ago: The following is an abstract for a contribution, to The Creativity of Property: A workshop on the re … more →

Tags: Law & place, Built Environments, wandering, Tracework, Territory, Dwelling, house & home

Riding the ripples: railway suicides and the infrastructural imperative

lukebennett13 wrote 1 year ago: “The metropolitan type…creates a protective organ for itself against the profound disruption w … more →

Tags: Law & place, Metal theft, Infrastructure, meaning-making, Fences, railings & parapets, Railways, Travel and distance, Mourning & place, Melancholia & nostalgia

No, sorry you can’t slide down the banisters: law, brass nodules and unauthorised alternative uses of the built environment

lukebennett13 wrote 1 year ago:  “…occasionally a noisy clattering down the stairs agreeably broke the silence, as a student s … more →

Tags: Law & place, Built Environments, Urban Exploration, Law Things, Cliffs, crags and crevasses, Fences, railings & parapets, Tracework, Climbing, parkour and other playscaping, ANT, OOO and Thingology

Weaselling in the wilds — 2 comments

lukebennett13 wrote 1 year ago: SPOILER ALERT: a reader found the following post boring. Feel free not to read it if you are looking … more →

Tags: Law & place, Materiality & memory, Urban Exploration, meaning-making, Mines & Quarries, wandering, Cliffs, crags and crevasses, Subterreanea, Territory


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