Monthly Archives: December 2013

Environment and Planning A theme issue on Geoengineering.

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Details of events in Manchester and London – as part of the Spring project. The Socialist President Salvadore Allende was elected to power in Chile in 1970, and embarked upon a series of radical reforms…

Dialogues in Human Geography has a discussion of big data and geography (requires subscription). Thanks to David Beer for the link.

Simon Critchley is giving another summer school on the philosophy of tragedy at Tilburg University. Next summer’s Tilburg Philosophy Summer School will explore the relation between philosophy and tragedy in particular and philosophy, drama and aesthetics more generally. My orienting … Continue reading →

Pepe Romanillos reviews Jeanne Haffner’s The View from Above: The Science of Social Space at H-Net. Here’s the first paragraph: Views of the earth from above have increasingly become the subject of critical interrogation. Jeanne Haffner’s fascinating book The View from Above: The Science of … Continue reading →

Good piece from Duke University Press on the future of book publishing.