Category Archives: Shakespearean Territories

On writing books

Posted on April 23, 2013 by

Yesterday I reblogged Graham Harman’s post about his forthcoming Latour book Prince of Nodes (a sequel to Prince of Networks). In that post he reflects on how this means he is contracted to write three books simultaneously.  He suggests that … Continue reading →

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Posted in Books, Michel Foucault, Publishing, Shakespearean Territories, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World, Writing | 2 Comments

Foucault lecture at Memorial University Newfoundland – audio recording

Posted on March 26, 2013 by

The audio recording of the George Story Lecture in Humanities I gave at Memorial University of Newfoundland, entitled “Knowledge, Truth, Power: The Politics of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir”, is now available here. There is a gap in the recording about … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on March 14, 2013 by

Mainly in recompense for some review work for OUP for the Shakespeare project, but also an early Heidegger lecture course, Tim Cresswell’s Geographic Thought, the new issue of Society and Space, a journal I didn’t know before called CRIOS (Critica degli … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Shakespearean Territories, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

Lectures in Newfoundland

Posted on March 12, 2013 by

I’m giving a few lectures at Memorial University of Newfoundland next week. The main reason I am going is to give the George M. Storey lecture in the Humanities, but a few other events have been arranged including a visit to … Continue reading →

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The Political Bodies of Coriolanus

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

The audio recording of my Politics, Philosophy and International Thought lecture at Aberystwyth University is available here. It’s a part of the planned Shakespearean Territories book, and this time I talked about Coriolanus – mainly the play but also the … Continue reading →

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Boko Haram, Shakespeare and Territory – talks at L.S.E. and Aberystwyth

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

I’m giving three talks this coming week – at the London School of Economics and Aberystwyth University. At the L.S.E. I’ll be giving the first version on a paper under the working title of “Nigeria’s ‘War on Terror’: The Geopolitics … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Colonial Territories – audio and maps

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

The audio recording of my talk to the Sociology Department at the University of York is available here. In the talk I discuss two maps – one from Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) of the Roman Empire: And this example … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Conferences, Politics, Shakespearean Territories, Territory, William Shakespeare | 2 Comments

Sociology at York – Sociology and Space seminar series

Posted on January 15, 2013 by

On Wednesday I’m going down to York to speak to the Sociology department – their blog has details of the whole term’s seminar programme, all on the theme of ‘Sociology and Space’. It’s a really interesting programme, with people from Geography, … Continue reading →

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Politicised Literary Geographies audio recordings

Posted on January 7, 2013 by

The audio recordings of the talks at the Durham workshop on Politicised Literary Geographies are available here. Following a brief introduction, there are talks by James Kneale, Carolyn Pedwell, Angharad Closs Stephens and me. my talk is on the Shakespearean … Continue reading →

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Books I’ve read and plan to read

Posted on December 2, 2012 by

A book meme I took from Rob Kitchin’s The View from the Blue House and first answered a year ago. As before I’ve largely answered in relation to non-academic reading… The book I’m currently reading? Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, China Mieville, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Derrida, Shakespearean Territories, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment