Monthly Archives: April 2013

The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon

Now listed on the Cambridge University Press website though not out until January 2014 – The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, edited by Leonard Lawlor and John Nale. This is an expensive reference work – I wrote the entry on ‘space’, which was about 2,600 … Continue reading

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Leibniz paper forthcoming in Geographica Helvetica

My paper on Leibniz, now under the title ‘Leibniz and Geography: Geologist, Palaeontologist, Biologist, Historian, Political Theorist and Geopolitician’ is forthcoming with Geographica Helvetica. Given that journal’s remit of crossing between linguistic traditions, it is a fitting home for a … Continue reading

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Lave’s Fields and Streams reviewed

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

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Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality – e-book

Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality, an open-access e-book edited by Sven-Olov Wallenstein and Jakob Nilsson, with essays by Thomas Lemke, Johanna Oksala, Catherine Mills, Julian Reid, Lukasz Stanek, Helena Mattsson, Warren Neidich, Cecilia Sjoholm, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Adenna Mey. Foucault’s work on biopolitics and governmentality … Continue reading

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The AAG meeting

I’ve spent the last week in Los Angeles for the Association of American Geographers annual meeting. It was mainly in the Westin Bonaventure hotel – made famous in the 1980s by the readings of Fredric Jameson and Edward Soja. I … Continue reading

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Philosophy Activism Nature – call for papers on place

Philosophy Activism Nature 11 (June) 2014 will be themed on ‘Place’. Contributors are asked to curate an essay focused on one of the following: i) a personal response to a specific geographic site or situation ii) a dialogue with a … Continue reading

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that’s not really a new edition of Après la finitude

Originally posted on Object-Oriented Philosophy:
Yesterday, I posted concerning Facebook rumors that THIS BOOK was a second edition of Meillassoux’s Après la finitude, with quite a few new pages added. I wrote to Meillassoux for clarification, and he responded that…

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South American and European geographies

late reblogging this – two new reviews at the Society and Space open site

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Taubes-Schmitt correspondence

To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections by Jacob Taubes translated by Keith Tribe and with an introduction by Mike Grimshaw, has just been published by Columbia University Press. The announcement on the AUFS blog has a discount code.

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Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis reissue

I mentioned the forthcoming Korean translation of Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis a couple of days ago. I’ve just heard that the English translation is being reissued this autumn by Bloomsbury (who bought Continuum) with a cheaper price in their Revelations series. … Continue reading

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