Monthly Archives: August 2010

Updates to talks

A bit more detail on talks in the autumn here. The programme of the Nijmegen Humboldt lectures is here; and the Radical Philosophy Association draft conference programme is here.

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Shelving Books

Scu at Critical Animal asks about shelving books. It reminded me of Walter Benjamin’s piece on unpacking his library, which is in Illuminations. I’ve now got so many books that if I don’t organise them I can never find anything. … Continue reading

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Society and Space – interviews

Over the years the journal has run a number of interviews with prominent theorists and philosophers. Some of these include Anthony Giddens, Raymond Williams, Henri Lefebvre, Edward Said, Alain Badiou, Michael Goodchild (1999 and 2009), and John Urry. There have also … Continue reading

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Society and Space – 28 volumes

The journal I edit, Society and Space, is in its 28th volume. It’s published a very large number of papers in that time. I previously gave some figures about this. I’m now beginning to create a long list of papers … Continue reading

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Locke, land and coercion

From Crooked Timber The standard Lockean case for (propertarian) libertarianism rests on the (universally false) assumption that an appropriation of land leaves “enough and as good” for anyone else. As long as land can be stolen from people who are … Continue reading

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Postgraduate Research Associate post

Three year post to work with Joe Painter at Durham, in “political geography with particular reference to  the geography of the state and citizenship, urban political economy, and socio-spatial theory”. Details here

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Heidegger and Cassirer

An interesting looking book on Heidegger and Cassirer just out, beginning with their 1929 encounter in Davos, but it looks like it goes a way beyond this. Details here. Great cover photo too.

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Terms of Debate

Speaking about Locke, and the way that in constructing his argument as a refutation of Filmer he was able to set the terms of debate in a way that favoured his position, but the general point is worth making: A … Continue reading

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Zizek documentary film

(from the Verso blog)

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Accelerationism

K-Punk has news of an intriguing event on the 14th September, in London. Among others, Ray Brassier (author of Nihil Unbound) and Robin Mackay (editor of Collapse) are speaking. K-Punk links to two intriguing forthcoming books: the Nick Land anthology Fanged … Continue reading

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