Monthly Archives: April 2015

Kelly Oliver, Earth and World: Philosophy after the Apollo Missions

Kelly Oliver, Earth and World: Philosophy after the Apollo Missions – thanks to John Protevi for the link. Critically engaging the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida together with her own observations on contemporary politics, … Continue reading

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Jacques Derrida’s early essay on Shakespeare’s idea of Kingship – ‘Quite unintelligible’

This page of an assignment by Jacques Derrida on Shakespeare is quite wonderful. He would have been 19-20 years old, while in a khâgne class – post-school, pre-university. While the teacher’s comment that some of this is ‘quite unintelligible’ is very funny; … Continue reading

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Top posts this week on Progressive Geographies

Terry Eagleton, The Slow Death of the University Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy – forthcoming in 2016 from Verso with introduction by Stuart Elden Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution Heidegger, National Socialism and the editing of the Gesamtausgabe Call … Continue reading

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Forgiving Foucault and Defining Neoliberalism

Originally posted on sanshistory:
“Economics is therefore not the analysis of processes; it is the analysis of an activity. So it is no longer the analysis of the historical logic of processes; it is the analysis of internal rationality, the…

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Lively Infrastructures -Ash Amin

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeZervZXxwA

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Marijn Nieuwenhuis: Spatial Sensitivity, Terrestrial Fixity and China’s Territory

A bit late linking to this, but there is an interesting interview with my Warwick colleague Marijn Nieuwenhuis in the ‘Geopolitical Passport’ series at Exploring Geopolitics.

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Catherine Malabou 2015 Wellek Lectures – “Metamorphoses of Intelligence”

Catherine Malabou will give the 2015 Wellek Lectures on May 20-22. The topic is “Metamorphoses of Intelligence”. The Critical Theory Institute at UC Irvine presents the Wellek Library Lectures, featuring Catherine Malbou. Malabou will be giving three lectures on “Metamorphoses of Intelligence.” … Continue reading

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Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy – forthcoming in 2016 from Verso with introduction by Stuart Elden

Henri Lefebvre’s fundamental book Métaphilosophie is forthcoming in translation in Spring 2016 from Verso. It will have an introduction from me. Further details when available. I’ve long wanted this book to be translated – hopefully as the first of a few of … Continue reading

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Jacques Derrida, Les arts de l’espace: Ecrits et interventions sur l’architecture

Jacques Derrida, Les arts de l’espace: Ecrits et interventions sur l’architecture.  Après Penser à ne pas voir qui réunissait les principaux textes de Jacques Derrida sur le dessin, la peinture et la photographie, voici l’ensemble de s’es réflexions sur l’architecture. … Continue reading

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The Funambulist Papers Volume 2 – print on demand and open access e-book

The Funambulist Papers Volume 2, edited by Léopold Lambert is now available as print on demand and open access e-book from Punctum Books. I have an essay in it, along with Derek Gregory, Gastón Gordillo, Grégoire Chamayou, Erin Manning, Elena Loizidou and many others. … Continue reading

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