Monthly Archives: November 2013

Our new paper on intelligence now online

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Very excited to announce our paper “The New Political Economy of Geographical Intelligence” is now online at the publisher’s website for the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. The publishers have provided a link for…

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L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi. Conférences prononcées à Dartmouth College, 1980

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault, L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi. Conférences prononcées à Dartmouth College, 1980, Paris, Vrin, coll. « Philosophie du présent / Foucault inédit », 2013 (168 pages, ISBN 978-2-7116-2509-3, 14€). Édition établie par Henri-Paul Fruchaud…

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Foucault Doctoral Workshop – call for papers

Posted on behalf of Philippe Bonditti: Call for papers (in English and French) for the Foucault Doctoral Workshop organized by the Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault (Paris). It will take place next January 15th and 16th 2014 at IMEC (Abbaye d’Ardenne, … Continue reading

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Rousseau – Property, Land, Territory

Mark Purcell points to Rousseau’s ‘denunciation of property’ in the second discourse: The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, … Continue reading

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David Tennant as Richard II @TheRSC – some thoughts

I went to see Shakespeare’s Richard II in Stratford yesterday. David (Dr Who) Tennant was King Richard, but a very strong cast generally – Oliver Ford Davies as the Duke of York, Michael Pennington as John of Gaunt, Nigel Lindsay … Continue reading

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Technicities book series by EUP

A new book series on Technicities for Edinburgh University Press.

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Politics Special Issue on ‘Security and the Politics of Resilience’

An open access issue of Politics, edited by three of my Warwick colleagues. The journal Politics has just published a Special Issue on ‘Security and the Politics of Resilience’. The Special Issue is edited by James Brassett, Stuart Croft, and Nick Vaughan-Williams … Continue reading

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Teach It, And They Will Come

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
As another term approaches its zenith, we at The Disorder engage in a novel public service: making available a range of our module reading lists. Ready-made bibliographies, crib-sheets, self-help guides, or just objects…

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Irish Left Review interview with David Harvey

Interesting out-takes from an interview with David Harvey, at Irish Left Review. The full print interview is longer, though excerpts are available in Red Pepper. The latter discusses his next book, The Seventeen Contradictions of Capitalism, due out next year.

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David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2 – a brief review

I’ve previously posted about David Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2 being published. I’ve now had a chance to read it, and to my mind it’s even better than the first volume A Companion to Marx’s Capital which appeared in 2010. … Continue reading

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