Monthly Archives: December 2014

Audio recording of ‘Geopolitics, Geopower, Geometrics’ – New Developments in Theory lecture at the University of Basel, 2014

You can listen to the audio recording of my New Developments in Theory lecture at the University of Basel, ‘Geopolitics, Geopower, Geometrics’, here. The introduction is by Ridvan Askin. I should say that this is very similar to lectures previously … Continue reading

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Peter J Taylor, Extraordinary Cities – now in paperback

Peter J Taylor’s major book Extraordinary Cities is now available in paperback. What following is the official blurb, but the endorsements on the webpage are worth a read too. Accepting that cities are extraordinary, this book provides an original city-centred narrative … Continue reading

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The legal, the material, and the geophysical: a few reflections on the Warwick postgraduate political geography conference

Rachael Squire discusses the Warwick workshop held last week. We’re hoping to post the audio recording of Alex Jeffrey’s talk and the closing roundtable on the department blog later this week.

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How much censorship has there been in Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe?

Die Zeit has a powerful piece discussing the involvement of the Heidegger family in the production of the Gesamtausgabe, the collected edition of his works. Theodore Kisiel has long called the editorial practices an ‘international scandal of scholarship‘, but this suggests … Continue reading

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