Category Archives: Events

Social Justice and the City at 40

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

Details of a conference in New York celebrating 40 years of David Harvey’s classic Social Justice and the City (via Harvey’s blog). About these ads

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The AAG meeting

Posted on April 13, 2013 by

I’ve spent the last week in Los Angeles for the Association of American Geographers annual meeting. It was mainly in the Westin Bonaventure hotel – made famous in the 1980s by the readings of Fredric Jameson and Edward Soja. I … Continue reading →

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Geographies of War | Iraq Revisited

Posted on March 1, 2013 by

Interesting looking exhibition and workshop, curated and organised by political geographer Alan Ingram.  

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Manet: Portraying Life

Posted on February 16, 2013 by

London’s Royal Academy of Arts has a new exhibition Manet: Portraying Life. It runs from 26 January to 14 April 2013 with advance booking advised. Foucault wrote a manuscript on Manet which is believed to be destroyed, but lectures have been … Continue reading →

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No Borders – review of Bristol exhibition

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

The TLS has a short review of an interesting looking exhibition on borders. A thought-provoking exhibition recently opened at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, in partnership with Arnolfini. “No Borders”, featuring a dozen modern artists from the Middle East, … Continue reading →

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Coriolan/us

Posted on November 23, 2012 by

The National Theatre of Wales’s production of Coriolan/us is the subject of a symposium at the University of Aberystwyth. Wish I could be there, given how much I like the play and how important it is for my current work. … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek's response to the campaign against Syriza

Posted on June 14, 2012 by

Reblogged from Greek Left Review: The campaign against SYRIZA in the days before elections is getting nastier and nastier – since our enemies control the big media, they can permit themselves direct lies, knowing that our answer cannot reach the … Continue reading →

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Coriolan/us in Wales

Posted on June 7, 2012 by

This looks interesting – a site-specific Coriolanus, after Shakespeare and Brecht, in a hangar at RAF St Athan, Wales in August. These are the same people who did  a version of Aeschylus, The Persians in the Brecon Beacons. Review here. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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Peter Sloterdijk in conversation with Nigel Thrift at the Tate

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

On Saturday 16th June, at the Tate gallery in London - “Spaces of Transformation: Spatialised Immunity”. Peter Sloterdijk’s philosophico-morphological theory is based on an understanding of the history of culture as spatialisations of forms. The world in which we live now requires … Continue reading →

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London Subterranea

Posted on May 18, 2012 by

Stephen Walter’s London Subterranea, at the London Transport Museum’s new Mind the Map exhibition. More on this art-work here. The exhibition generally looks very interesting too.

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