Category Archives: Derek Gregory

Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

For the past several days I’ve been writing – and almost as importantly, working with the images for – my lecture for Kentucky. At the moment it looks like it will cover… Area, Volume, Territory, Boundedness, the Volumetric, Political Technology, … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory – Deadly Embrace

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

The audio and slides of Derek Gregory’s British Academy lecture ‘Deadly Embrace: War, Distance and Intimacy’ are available here. He gave the same lecture at the University of Manchester yesterday, and it was excellent. Great dinner with Derek, Maja Zehfuss, … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory – British Academy lecture

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

Deadly Embrace: War, Distance and Intimacy Professor Derek Gregory FBA Wednesday 14 March, 2012, 6.00-7.15pm The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH It has become commonplace to claim that contemporary wars are fought from a distance: the … Continue reading →

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Security and Geopolitical Space – readings

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

My visit to the University of Kentucky for the Committee on Social Theory is part of a class on ‘Security’. The idea is that the four visiting speakers give public lectures and then have a discussion session with the students taking … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory – The Everywhere War

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

via Territorial Masquerades, the audio of a lecture by Derek Gregory is available online.

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Air-Target and the Politics of Verticality

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

Some very interesting looking pieces in a recent issue of Theory, Culture and Society - thanks to Oliver Belcher for the link. Will be good reading for my ‘volume’ work. Peter Adey, Mark Whitehead, and Alison J. Williams, “Introduction: Air-target: Distance, … Continue reading →

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Sevilla Buitrago, Gregory, Elden interview – open access in Spanish and English

Posted on December 3, 2011 by

The English version of the interview in Acme has been available for a while – and like all material in that journal is open access. Now the Spanish translation – which appeared earlier this year in Revista Urban – is … Continue reading →

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Secure the Volume abstract

Posted on December 3, 2011 by

This is the abstract for the Kentucky Committee for Social Theory lecture (late March) and the Political Geography plenary lecture at the RGS-IBG conference in Edinburgh (early July). Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power We all-too-often … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Derek Gregory – ‘Lines of Descent’

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

Derek Gregory’s ‘Lines of Descent’ essay is available at Open Democracy. There are a number of other papers linked to this weekend’s ‘Shock and Awe’ conference here.

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