Monthly Archives: January 2014

Some interesting reflections on what makes a good humanities book…

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of twenty-fourth January, 1973 As my notes and comments on this expanded beyond the length of what I posted for previous lectures, I posting on this lecture in two parts. Foucault sets up this lecture…

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of seventeenth January 1973 Foucault starts this lecture by reference to a speech delivered in the constituent assembly in October 1789, which defended the legal practices of the Old Regime (the monarchy before the French…

Originally posted on Path to the Possible:
Don’t forget – this year’s round of Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project and International Workshop Awards closes at the end of March. Grants of up to £10,000 (or its equivalent in another currency) are…

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Matt Hannah has reviewed Susan Schulten’s Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago) on H-Net Reviews. Susan Schulten’s Mapping the Nation is physically attractive, based on sound scholarly work yet accessibly written, and effectively…

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
My work on drones has been invigorated by reading an outstandingly creative essay by Lucy Suchman on ‘Situational Awareness: deadly bioconvergence at the boundaries of bodies and machines’, forthcoming at the ever-interesting Mediatropes.  It’s sparked both an e-mail…

Karen Morin’s piece on prisons in Society and Space – and recently discussed in Slate – now open access.

A post-doctoral research associate post at Durham’s International Boundaries Research Unit. Durham University seeks to employ a full-time Research Associate to contribute to the work of IBRU, an interdisciplinary consultancy, training, and academic research entity based in Durham University’s Department … Continue reading →