Monthly Archives: March 2015

Council for the Defence of British Universities on Surrey Politics

Council for the Defence of British Universities – Restructuring Politics at the University of Surrey: An Unexpected and Questionable Decision

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The Uncollected Foucault – updates to texts needed; and to texts available

I’ve been doing further work on ‘The Uncollected Foucault’ – which will hopefully become a short article as well as a resource here. I’ve made some updates to texts needed; and to texts available. The ones I still need are … Continue reading

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Two posts at Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at University of Warwick has two new academic posts. For more information, and to apply, please see: Associate Professor – (75498-035) Assistant Professor – (75540-035) Both are related to Masters level teaching, especially the MSc in Urban Informatics … Continue reading

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Forthcoming papers in Society and Space

Forthcoming papers in Society and Space – Natalie Oswin outlines some of the papers available online. Some of these will be in the next issue; some are from a forthcoming theme issue on ‘War, law and space’.

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Marina Warner, ‘Learning my Lesson’ – on Universities in the LRB

Marina Warner, ‘Learning my Lesson’ – on Universities in the LRB. It takes her own story, and broadens it to apply far beyond the University of Essex. Here’s one key paragraph, but the whole thing is well worth reading. I … Continue reading

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“A Period of Intense Debate about Marxist Philosophy”: An Interview with Étienne Balibar

Translation of an interview with Étienne Balibar in Viewpoint. This text was first pub­lished in L’Human­ité on March 13, 2015. Jérome Skalski: Fifty years ago Louis Althusser’s For Marx, and, under his direc­tion, Read­ing Cap­i­tal, were pub­lished. What was the con­text of the debate at that … Continue reading

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Governing Emergencies – Theory, Culture and Society theme edited by Peter Adey, Ben Anderson and Stephen Graham

Governing Emergencies – Theory, Culture and Society theme edited by Peter Adey, Ben Anderson and Stephen Graham. Includes essays by Claudia Aradau, Stephanie Simon and Marieke de Goede, Stephen J Collier and Andrew Lakoff, among others. Papers require subscription.

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Politics of Place issue 2 available

Politics of Place issue 2 available – visually looks great, including an interview with Bradley Garrett.

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Boğaziçi Chronicles, Interview with Michael Hardt: Empire, Sovereignty and New Struggles

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
A new portion of an interview with Hardt is up at the Boğaziçi Chronicles site. The full interview (pdf) is here.

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Reflections on teaching the history of geography

Originally posted on Open Geography:
I have a short piece in a forum on teaching the history of geography, organized by Innes Keighren for Progress in Human Geography. There are also contributions by Franklin Ginn, Scott Kirsch, Audrey Kobayashi, Simon Naylor and Jörn Seemann.…

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