Monthly Archives: April 2014

Verso’s Undergraduate Reading List – and last days of their 50% + e-book sale

Verso have updated their suggestions for an alternative undergraduate reading list. It would be a very well-read undergraduate to complete this list. Also worth mentioning that their excellent sale – 50% off many books, free postage, plus the bundled e-book, … Continue reading

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So the #AAG2014 meeting is done for another year…

I’m sitting at Tampa airport, waiting to fly to Newark to begin six weeks in New York. The Association of American Geographers meeting is over for another year. It was a good meeting, beginning – for me – with a … Continue reading

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VersoBooks is having a 50% off sale

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Apparently with free shipping worldwide, too and its bundled with the e-book, if available. That last one is pretty handy, since a lot of books I’ve had recently to work through, I’ve…

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Philosophers DVD: Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Philosophers DVD Author(s): Moderator and commentator Fons Elders Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault Sir Alfred Ayer and Arne Naess Leszek Kolakowski and Henri Lefèbvre Sir Karl Popper and Sir John Eccles A series by Fons Elders…

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Visualising The Birth of Territory – the animated movie by Juliet J Fall

Visualising “The Birth of Territory” Juliet J Fall, Université de Genève from Juliet Fall on Vimeo. This is the version of the animated presentation Juliet J Fall gave at the AAG Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida, on 7th April 2014 … Continue reading

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Interview with Emily Brady on her book, The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature

Interview with Emily Brady at the Society and Space open site.

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Volume 32, Issue 2 now out

New issue of Society and Space out now.

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Contested urban spaces and imaginations

two new urban reviews in Society and Space.

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 11

I’d hoped to get right back to the Foucault work on my return from Australia, mainly the chapter on governmentality, but spent much time catching up on other things and getting ready for my trip to Florida (for the AAG … Continue reading

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Nigel Thrift and Steven Koonin discuss urban science and big data

Nigel Thrift, Vice Chancellor of University of Warwick, and Steven Koonin, Director of New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress, partners in this endeavour, discussed the emerging field of applied urban science and informatics, the opportunities it presents, and … Continue reading

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