Monthly Archives: April 2014

Two positions at Warwick, Politics and International Studies

1. Assistant Professor in Political Economy and Public Policy 2. Associate Professor in Political Theory and Interdisciplinary Ethics  

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Teo Ballvé – A Call for Scholarly Propaganda: Or what can we Learn from Thomas Friedman?

A thoughtful piece by Teo Ballvé on scholarship and public engagement.

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The Birth of Territory – a short piece at the Politics@Warwick blog

There is a short piece on The Birth of Territory at the Politics@Warwick blog.

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Utopia or Bust by Benjamin Kunkel – Chapter One on David Harvey free online

Chapter One of Benjamin Kunkel, Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis is free to read online. It’s mainly a discussion of David Harvey’s work.

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Radical Philosophy 185 out now

Radical Philosophy No 185 is out now. It has obituaries of Stuart Hall, Alberto Toscano’s discussion of Etienne Balibar, Mark Neocleous on monsters and police, a non-nationalist argument for an independent Scotland, and some pieces on Auguste Blanqui by Jacques Rancière, Daniel Bensaïd … Continue reading

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Georg Lukács, Culture of People’s Democracy – Hungarian essays translated in paperback

Georg Lukács, Culture of People’s Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition, 1945-1948 is now available in paperback, translated by Tyrus Miller. Engaged with questions of realist and modernist world-views in art, the relations of literary history to politics, and … Continue reading

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Lawrence & Wishart and the copyright of the Marx-Engels collected works

In recent days there has been debate about the copyright of the Marx-Engels collected works. Publishers Lawrence & Wishart have asked that these works are removed from the Marxist Internet Archive (story here); a petition has been started to protest … Continue reading

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Political Theology and Modernity: The Legacy of Carl Schmitt – Lancaster 9 June 2014

Political Theology and Modernity – The Legacy of Carl Schmitt Day Event at Lancaster University, Monday 9th June 2014 The Northern Theory Group in conjunction with the Journal for Cultural Research and the Politics, Philosophy and Religion Department of Lancaster University is organizing a one-day … Continue reading

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JUCS 1.2 content list [in production]

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is pleased to announce the content of issue 1.2, currently in production [podcast interview with Ben Jefferson is already available on this site here, interview with Maja Klausen is forthcoming,…

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A fifth commentary on Henri Lefebvre’s ‘Dissolving City, Planetary Metamorphosis’ added

Adam David Morton adds a piece to the forum on the Lefebvre essay in Society and Space.

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