Monthly Archives: September 2014

Peck, Massey, Gibson & Lawson on The Kilburn Manifesto in Environment and Planning A (open access)

Posted on September 22, 2014 by stuartelden

New issue of Environment and Planning A out – including open access discussion of The Kilburn Manifesto.

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Books received – Guattari, Foucault & Aron, Empson

Posted on September 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Three books added to some growing ‘to-read’ piles – Martin Empson’s Land and Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History, Gary Genosko’s other introduction to Guattari, and a short book of a radio interview between Michel Foucault and Raymond Aron, which I … Continue reading →

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A week at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design – speaking about Iraq and Nigeria, urban territory and Lefebvre

Posted on September 22, 2014 by stuartelden

I’m now on my way home from a very interesting and enjoyable week at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. The invitation was to give one of the two keynote talks to a conference on the Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in … Continue reading →

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Patrick Dunleavy on the future prospects of British constitutional and political turmoil

Posted on September 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Patrick Dunleavy discusses future constitutional and political prospects in the UK following the Scotland ‘no’ vote at the LSE blog. Thanks to Ben Rosamond for the link.

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Urbanomic new catalogue – Wolfendale, Châtelet, etc.

Posted on September 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Innovative publishers Urbanomic have a new catalogue – including Peter Wolfendale’s Object-Orientated Philosophy, Gilles Châtelet’s To Live and Think like Pigs, Collapse VIII and more.  

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on September 21, 2014 by stuartelden

International Conference on Critical Geography 2015, Ramallah, Palestine US geography dissertations since 1888 – analysis of title words Geopolitical Economy: States, Economies and the Capitalist World Order – call for papers Lefebvre’s beach: Gordillo on Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment … Continue reading →

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Peter Gordon on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks in the New York Review of Books

Posted on September 20, 2014 by stuartelden

Peter Gordon on Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ in The New York Review of Books (requires subscription).

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International Conference on Critical Geography 2015, Ramallah, Palestine

Posted on September 20, 2014 by stuartelden

Details of the 2015 International Conference on Critical Geography to be held in Ramallah, Palestine, 26-30 July (via Antipode).

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Lefebvre’s beach: Gordillo on Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment

Posted on September 19, 2014 by stuartelden

An excellent review of the recently discovered book by Lefebvre on architecture.

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Rupal Oza – India’s relations with Israel and Palestine: Tracing a tectonic shift

Posted on September 18, 2014 by stuartelden

Another new commentary on the Society and Space open site – this time on the relation India has to the situation in Israel and Palestine.

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