Category Archives: David N. Livingstone

Elden, Gregory, Sevilla-Buitrago in ACME

Posted on November 12, 2011 by

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, Vol 10 No 2 is now available. It includes the English version of a discussion between me, Derek Gregory and Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago that was originally published earlier this year in a Spanish translation: … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, David Harvey, David N. Livingstone, Derek Gregory, Henri Lefebvre, John Locke, Mapping the Present, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Politics, Publishing, Speaking Against Number, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World, Understanding Henri Lefebvre, Universities | Leave a comment

Reading Kant’s Geography out

Posted on June 14, 2011 by

Finally! Reading Kant’s Geography, the collection I co-edited with Eduardo Mendieta is out. I’ve not yet seen a copy, but Eduardo has. You can download my introduction for free here. Contributors include Robert Bernasconi, Jeff Malpas, Onora O’Neill, Charles Withers, … Continue reading →

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History of Philosophy, History of Ideas, History of Geography

Posted on March 15, 2011 by

Brian Leiter links to an interesting open letter on why graduate students should seriously consider studying the history of philosophy. The Leiter page also has some interesting discussion. The discussion appears, largely, to be framed within a more ‘analytic’ discourse, … Continue reading →

Posted in David N. Livingstone, J.G.A. Pocock, Medieval Studies, Quentin Skinnner, Reinhart Koselleck | 12 Comments

Adam’s Ancestors

Posted on February 26, 2011 by

Jeremy Crampton comments on David Livingstone’s book Adam’s Ancestors, here; a book I mentioned in my ‘reading list’ post yesterday. Jeremy provides a brief outline of what the book is about, and notes the part he paid in Livingstone’s argument. He suggests … Continue reading →

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Reading at ANU

Posted on February 25, 2011 by

Since I arrived here I’ve been doing quite a lot of reading, as I am at that interesting stage of a new project where you have a few ideas and begin following promising leads. Some of them, of course, turn … Continue reading →

Posted in David N. Livingstone, Fossils, Gilles Deleuze, Klaus Theweleit, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, The Space of the World, Wendy Brown, William E Connolly | 1 Comment

David Livingstone on Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on November 17, 2010 by

A moment of Kantian enlightenment! In a splendid, interdisciplinary set of interrogations, the nature and significance of Immanuel Kant’s geography is brought into full light for the very first time. This remarkable work of retrieval thus enlightens, at once, Kant’s … Continue reading →

Posted in David N. Livingstone, Eduardo Mendieta, Immanuel Kant, My Publications | 2 Comments

Ambitious Geography Books

Posted on August 25, 2010 by

I was thinking today about books by geographers, written in the last thirty years or so, that would stand as real testaments to what the discipline is about or what it can do. By this I’m meaning something other than … Continue reading →

Posted in David Harvey, David N. Livingstone, Derek Gregory, Publishing | 10 Comments