Category Archives: Peter Sloterdijk

Spheres Of Action – edited by Alliez and Osborne

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

Spheres Of Action: Art and Politics, edited by Éric Alliez and Peter Osborne, recently out with MIT Press. Contemporary art is increasingly part of a wider network of cultural practices, related through a common set of references in cultural theory. … Continue reading →

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The Dimensions of Territory – audio of talk at Al Quds Bard Honors College

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

The audio recording of my talk earlier this month at Al Quds Bard Honors College, “The Dimensions of Territory”, is available here. For people who know my work on territory it doesn’t have much new, but it tries to give … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Eyal Weizman, Michel Foucault, Paul Virilio, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Stephen Graham, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory, urban/urbanisation | Leave a comment

Sloterdijk paper from the AAG

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

My talk on Peter Sloterdijk at the AAG, especially looking at In the World Interior of Capital, is available here. The conference was held in the Westin Bonaventure hotel – something I refer to around 14 minutes in. The air-conditioning … Continue reading →

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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 →

Posted in Conferences, David Harvey, Edward Soja, Events, Fredric Jameson, Neil Smith, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Publishing, Society and Space, Territory, Travel | Leave a comment

Istanbul and Los Angeles

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

Just about to hit the road again, to conferences in Istanbul and Los Angeles. I’ll be speaking about Boko Haram in Istanbul, at a meeting of the Open Society Institute’s academic fellowship program. This gives me a chance to meet … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Conferences, Peter Sloterdijk, Publishing, Society and Space, The Birth of Territory, Travel, Universities | 1 Comment

Secure the Volume – Political Geography paper available

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

My paper “Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power” has now been published by Political Geography in their ‘articles in press’ section. They’ve not yet posted the responses by Peter Adey and Gavin Bridge but my reply … Continue reading →

Posted in My Publications, Paul Virilio, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Territory | 5 Comments

AAG draft program available

Posted on February 2, 2013 by

The draft program for the Association of American Geographers meeting in Los Angeles in early April is now available online. I’m speaking in a panel on Sloterdijk, a panel on the future of publishing, and giving a paper on ‘Urban … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

Not many academic books arrived over the Christmas break, except a new Sloterdijk translation; Mick Dillon’s collection Deconstructing International Politics and Christian Parenti’s Tropic of Chaos, along with a handful of journals.

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Writing tasks

Posted on December 24, 2012 by

When term finished last Friday, I was at last able to get to some writing tasks that I hadn’t been able to clear the time to complete before. First up was a short reply to two responses to my ‘Secure the … 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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