This is a bit of an ex-colleagues from Durham roundup.

David Campbell has an interesting piece here on Edmund Clark’s Guantánamo exhibition and book. I’d seen some of the photographs themselves in The Guardian – here – but David’s commentary is a helpful counterpoint. There is something very striking about the violence of these objects, which is made starker by not having people in the photographs. You can see more here.

Steve Graham let me know about some very interesting public lectures he is organising at Newcastle, including Iain Boal (of Retort fame), Ananya Roy, and Matthew Gandy  – details here.

And Kay Anderson passed on news of a call for papers on Foucault and space:

We are pleased to announce the first call for papers for the online journal « mf / materiali foucaultiani » :

Geographies of power: space and heterotopias, beginning from Michel Foucault

We dedicates the first special issue to the theme of space and its possible declinations in the fields of philosophy, politics and geography-urbanism, starting from the reflections brought forward by Michel Foucault… [read more]

Deadline (abstract of about 500 words in Italian, English or French): December 15, 2010