Monthly Archives: January 2014

London’s waterways mapped – and sound clips

London’s waterways mapped – the site also has sound clips of site recordings at each location. Thanks to several people who shared this on Facebook.  

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The ever-increasing deluge of bad and useless books (Schopenhauer)

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
Literary journals should be a dam against the unconscionable scribbling of the age, and the ever-increasing deluge of bad and useless books. Their judgments should be uncorrupted, just and rigorous; and every piece of bad work…

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Towards a new geophilosophy, book forum on Ben Woodard’s “On an Ungrounded Earth”

Review forum on Ben Woodward’s On an Ungrounded Earth at the Society and Space open site.

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Discipline, Punish, Examine and Produce: Foucault’s La société punitive – Stuart Elden @berfrois

Update September 2025: the Berfrois site is now closed and the archive has been removed. My piece can now be found here. My review of Foucault’s La société punitive has now been published at Berfrois.

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Mapping the songs of Tom Waits

Interactive map of locations in the songs of Tom Waits.

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A Geology of Media

Originally posted on Machinology:
I am pleased to announce that I have signed a contract with University of Minnesota Press for a new book tentatively called A Geology of Media. Planned for 2015, A Geology of Media forms the third,…

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Peter Trawny on Heidegger’s ‘black notebooks’ in Le Monde

In Le Monde, Peter Trawny discusses Heidegger’s ‘black notebooks’ – thanks to enowning for the link.

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Two questions on Heidegger translation conventions

Two questions, and some interesting discussion in the comments, about Heidegger translations. I think Dasein should be kept, and all the nuances teased out in a translator note; and I dislike the capitalisation of nouns in English since it tends … Continue reading

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Foucault’s Boomerang: the New Military Urbanism (2013)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Stephen Graham, Foucault’s Boomerang: the New Military Urbanism OpenDemocracy, 14 February 2013. According to Stephen Graham, a new set of ‘Foucauldian boomerang effects’ are shaping how states apply ‘tactics of control’ over everyday urban life.…

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Making Human Geography: New book by Kevin Cox

Originally posted on Pop Theory:
I have just read Kevin Cox’s new book, Making Human Geography. It tells the story, as he sees it, of how over the last 50 years or so, human geography has become a field of sophisticated…

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