Monthly Archives: September 2011

Policing the Crisis reissue

Nina Power has the news that Stuart Hall et. al.’s classic Policing the Crisis is to be reissued with new material.

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War’s Affects: Mediating Conflict and Emotion, 1700-1900 Symposium

Conference at the Australian National University – more details here.

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The last Heidegger lecture course

Well, the last course to be published. Vol 32 of the Gesamtausgabe. Still seminars, unpublished writings and notebooks to come. The course is from summer 1932, so a politically charged moment, and is on Anaximander and Parmenides, titled ‘The Beginning of … Continue reading

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Interviews with new Society and Space co-editors

Interviews with the three new co-editors of Society and Space can be found over at the journal blog – Deborah Cowen interviews Jane M. Jacobs here; Natalie Oswin interviews Maia Green here; and I interview Peter Gratton here.

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Histories of Violence

That Massumi lecture is part of a series, including pieces by Bauman and Chomsky, which is itself part of a wider project run by Brad Evans at University of Leeds on ‘Histories of Violence’. The project has a website here, though … Continue reading

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Brian Massumi on anticipation and action in the Bush era

Short video here.

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Lectures on Foucault

I give two different lectures on Foucault this month. One is at the Radical Foucault conference in London (8th-9th Sept), and then the second is given at both UC Berkeley and University of Arizona the following week. The paper for … Continue reading

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Nigel Thrift on blogging, academic communication and the formation of new fields

At the Chronicle of Higher Education blog. Speculative Realism is the spur to the reflections, but the points are broader. Thanks to ANTHEM for the link.

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