Monthly Archives: September 2012

Žižek – The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

The Verso blog has the news: After the success of The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, director Sophie Fiennes and the only philosopher-turned-film-star Slavoj Žižek return with The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology. Tonight marks the premiere of the film at the … Continue reading

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Territorial Masquerades on Roberto Bolaño & Geopolitics

Interesting thoughts and useful links on Roberto Bolaño & Geopolitics at Territorial Masquerades.

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Originally posted on Foucault News:
Graduate Seminar: Asceticism, Eroticism, and the Premodern Foucault: Revisiting Foucault’s History of Sexuality through Medieval and Early Modern Sources The Newberry Centre for Renaissance Studies Chicago, USA Friday, January 11, 2013 to Friday, March 15,…

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reviews of Rasmussen’s The Autonomous Animal at the Society and Space open site.

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Stuart Hall at 80

Interesting interview in the New Statesman – Englishness, the new Left, Gramsci, Labour, neoliberalism, etc. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link.

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Forthcoming talks

Several talks for the 2012/13 academic year have been arranged. Two lectures have been in the diary for a while – the Critical International and Political Studies annual lecture at the University of Warwick in October (abstract here), and the George M. … Continue reading

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Levi Bryant – The Gravity of Things: An Introduction to Onto-Cartography

The text of his Dundee lecture next week is available online. This is part of his Onto-Cartographies project, forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press. He says a little about it in this post on his blog, and much more elsewhere on … Continue reading

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Kaplan – The Revenge of Geography

Robert D. Kaplan’s book The Revenge of Geography: What the Map tells us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate is out on September 11th. Jeremy Crampton has news of its launch here. This builds on an earlier piece … Continue reading

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A fascinating discussion forum on Miltarism, organised and introduced by Deborah Cowen, at the Society and Space open site.

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Insurance and Power – Luis Lobo-Guerrero website

Luis Lobo-Guerrero has a website about his work – Insurance and Power. Doesn’t appear to have a blog or rss feed, but some details on his work and a few downloadable papers. He’s just joined the Royal Holloway Geography Politics and … Continue reading

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