Monthly Archives: November 2012

Amos Nascimento on Reading Kant’s Geography

Amos Nascimento has a detailed review of Reading Kant’s Geography in Radical Philosophy Review. Reading Kant’s Geography is a groundbreaking colleciton of important interdisciplinary authors who present Immanuel Kant’s views on issues neglected for too long in Kantian scholarship. This … Continue reading

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The Birth of Territory – copy-editing done

I’ve just finished checking through all the queries with the copy-editing of the manuscript of The Birth of Territory. This must have been quite a job, given the length of the manuscript and the number of foreign words and references. … Continue reading

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Originally posted on Foucault News:
Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights Edited by Ben Golder, Routledge Published 24th October 2012 by Routledge – 264 pages Publisher’s page Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights is the first collection in…

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Michael Dillon – Deconstructing International Politics

Mick Dillon’s long-awaited Deconstructing International Politics is coming out in December with the Interventions series at Routledge. Michael Dillon is internationally regarded for his contributions by political philosophers, international relations scholars and security studies experts, as well as by philosophers … Continue reading

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Paul Ennis interview at Figure/Ground Communication

Interesting interview with Paul Ennis here, especially concerning the precarity of early-career scholars.

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Douglas Armato, director of University of Minnesota Press on publishing

Interesting comments from Douglas Armato, director of University of Minnesota Press, on academic publishing. Here’s a brief excerpt: University presses will survive and continue to evolve for this reason as well —that while new modes of scholarship continue to forecast … Continue reading

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Featherstone on McFarlane at the Society and Space open site.

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Council for the Defence of British Universities

The Council for the Defence of British Universities has recently been launched. Their message is that British universities occupy a high place in the world, and need to be defended against changes and especially marketisation. Britain’s universities are amongst the world’s … Continue reading

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Agamben – The Highest Poverty

Stanford University Press have a page up for Agamben’s The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life. You can read a draft of the preface here. The Highest Poverty is IV, 1 in the Homo Sacer series. Nicholas Dahmann made a … Continue reading

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Bradley Garrett new website

Urban geographer and explorer Brad Garrett has a new website. Some stunning photography there.

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