Category Archives: Nigel Thrift

Nigel Thrift on the future of Big Ed(ucation)

Posted on December 7, 2012 by

In the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here’s a couple of key paragraphs: It is possible to see a new political economy of higher education coming into existence born out of the huge increase in students around the world, as well … Continue reading →

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Big books received

Posted on November 13, 2012 by

The Thrift and Glennie book is 470 pages; Sloterdijk’s is 500; Parfit’s is a staggering 1,400 pages across the two volumes. All received in recompense for review work – I reviewed part of a reference work for OUP and the manuscript of the … Continue reading →

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Ash Amin on Democracy

Posted on July 19, 2012 by

Piece at Berfrois – draws on his forthcoming book with Nigel Thrift, Arts of the Political. If democracy means rule by the people for the people, it has broken down. All we have today is rule by elites for national … Continue reading →

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Two Society and Space pieces on Sloterdijk

Posted on June 26, 2012 by

Over at the Society and Space open site, you can read Nigel Thrift’s (non-delivered) introduction to a recent lecture by Peter Sloterdijk at the Tate Modern. Peter Adey, Harriet Hawkins and Craig Martin then discuss the lecture itself.

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Amin and Thrift, Arts of the Political

Posted on June 25, 2012 by

Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift’s new book, Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left is due out in March 2013 with Duke University Press. Very little on the publisher site as yet.

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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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Ian Bogost – Alien Phenomenology

Posted on February 19, 2012 by

Ian Bogost has news of his very shortly forthcoming book Alien Phenomenology, with  University of Minnesota Press. A bold new metaphysics that explores how all things—from atoms to green chiles, cotton to computers—interact with, perceive, and experience one another In … Continue reading →

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Gerard Toal on political affect

Posted on February 19, 2012 by

Interesting post from Gerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail) on political affect, which links to a piece he wrote for Antipode in 2004, and where he promises to develop an affective geopolitics. Most contemporary geographers will be aware that the discipline … Continue reading →

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Thrift on refereeing in crisis

Posted on January 31, 2012 by

In the Chronicle of Higher Education. Thanks to Sam Kinsey for posting this in comments – I’ve reposted so it is more widely seen.

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Chris Philo on the ‘new Foucault’

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

Chris Philo discusses the Foucault lecture courses, and their potential for human geography, in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (requires subscription). This paper argues that we may now speak of a ‘new Foucault’ with more to say to … Continue reading →

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