Monthly Archives: November 2012

Bill Martin scholar session audio

Bill Martin was the focus of a scholar session at the recent SPEP conference. Peter Gratton spoke at this and recorded it and has posted the audio here.

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Richard Sennett – 2012 Paul Hirst memorial lecture

The audio of Richard Sennett’s 2012 Paul Hirst memorial lecture is available here.

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Slavoj Žižek on Obama’s re-election

Short piece in The Guardian. Preposterous and thoughtful all at the same time. Here’s one typical paragraph: In Europe, the ground floor of a building is counted as zero, so the floor above it is the first floor, while in the … Continue reading

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Big books received

The Thrift and Glennie book is 470 pages; Sloterdijk’s is 500; Parfit’s is a staggering 1,400 pages across the two volumes. All received in recompense for review work – I reviewed part of a reference work for OUP and the manuscript of the … Continue reading

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Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics

This looks a very interesting collection – full details and links to some excerpts here. Adam David Morton discusses the book and his chapter here.

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Elizabeth Grosz – interview with Interstitial teaser

Fractured Politics has posted a brief excerpt from a forthcoming interview with Elizabeth Grosz and the new journal Interstitial.

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Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
A few weeks ago at the Millennium conference, some of us got together to talk about open access and the political economy of knowledge (re)production in our little corner of academia (“us” being Colin…

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Foucault – Du gouvernement des vivants

Just received – really looking forward to this.

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Jean Gottmann – The Significance of Territory

The editors of Geographica Helvetica have asked me to contribute a short piece to their relaunch issue. They asked me to write a piece on past geographical text, reevaluating its contemporary worth and relevance. This is for one of the … Continue reading

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Daniel Defert and the Foucault archives

Foucault News links to an interview with Daniel Defert on the Foucault archives and a separate piece with some more details: Il ne s’agit pas encore du trésor, mais déjà de sa cartographie : un inventaire de 63 pages décrivant le contenu … Continue reading

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