Monthly Archives: January 2014

Place, Space and Politics: New Book Series from Routledge

Clive Barnett has news of a book series he is editing for Routledge – Research in Place, Space and Politics. This looks very interesting, and joins some other good series – the Antipode and RGS-IBG ones with Wiley-Blackwell, and the Geographies … Continue reading

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Norwegian literature to go online for free – an interesting development

Literature goes online for free in Norway (via AFP) Most books published in Norway before 2001 are going online for free thanks to an initiative that may have found the formula to reconcile authors with the web. At a time … Continue reading

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Beyond Discipline and Punish: Is it time for a new translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir?

Alan Sheridan’s translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir as Discipline and Punish is almost forty years old, and it is sometimes said that great works of literature need to be retranslated each generation. (For some examples of this for works … Continue reading

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CFP: Politics without Borders – Nottingham Postgraduate Conference

Politics without Borders A cross-disciplinary exploration of the challenges facing a globalised world Second annual Nottingham Postgraduate Conference 12 June 2014, Engineering and Sciences Learning Centre, University Park, University of Nottingham The School of Politics and International Relations is hosting … Continue reading

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Foucault, Ann Radcliffe and the geography of crime – a question on La société punitive

[Update: apologies, but the editor of the course, Bernard Harcourt, notes that this text is an ‘apocryphal novel’ on p. 62 n. 18. Don’t know how I missed that. Nonetheless, it does rather the question of whether the translation into … Continue reading

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Interview with Justin Clemens on his book, Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy

A new interview on the Society and Space open site.

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Paradigms in Cartography reviewed by Eades

New review at the Society and Space open site.

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Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton on Rosa Luxemburg, the Spaces of Capital, and collaborative writing

A very interesting piece, by Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton, on Rosa Luxemburg, the Spaces of Capital, and collaborative writing – fascinating both in terms of topic and process.

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Progressive Geographies’s Foucault and Lefebvre resource pages

There are now two pages of Foucault resources and Lefebvre resources – gathering a few different posts on this site together. They include short translations, the reading guide to Lefebvre and a few other bits and pieces. There is not … Continue reading

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Three letters from Bergson to Deleuze

At the CIEPFC site, three letters from Bergson to Deleuze (in French), originally published in Critique in 2008 – thanks to John Protevi for the link. [Update: I should have realised this from the dates, but these are a fabrication – Bergson died when … Continue reading

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