Here are lots of interesting things I came across while catching up with my Google reader feeds…

Some interesting advice on the PhD application process (for the UK) – here (think I got this via New APPS).

Also advice – Graham Harman has a nice post about multiple writing projects here.

A good event: Earth-Objects and the Politics of Ecology, at the Barbican Art Gallery, 21 January 2012 – speakers include Graham Harman and Eyal Weizman.

And via Graham, here’s a call for papers –The Relevance of the Human in Politics, April 27-28, 2012. University of Dundee. Todd May as keynote. Looks good.

In the Times Higher there is a review of Sloterdijk’s Spheres I (via Peter Gratton). It’s largely negative and doesn’t tell you a great deal about the book. Somewhat of a strange choice as reviewer. The funniest line is near the start, describing him as “a kind of Jonathan Ross for the intellectually curious”.

Roland Boer has been creating a ‘typology of scholars’. That first post has a long list of types, he has followed it up with some others such as the self-seller; the put-downer; the unnoticed genius; the snob; the colonialist…

Via the Verso blog: Stephen Graham was on Radio 4 Thinking Aloud recently – available on BBC iPlayer (until 11 Jan 2012 – begins about 13 minutes in). His Cities Under Siege was recently reviewed in The Guardian.

The International Boundaries Research Unit at Durham University has a facebook page.

And finally, Paul Ennis says he is closing his AHB blog. He did an interview with me back in 2009 (later collected in the book Post-Continental Voices) which was one of the first things that got me thinking of starting a blog. Thanks Paul, and good luck.