Monthly Archives: August 2015

The 2015 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture – “Offshore Humanism” by Paul Gilroy

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
On Wednesday 2 September Prof. Paul Gilroy (Department of English, King’s College London) will be presenting the 2015 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture, “Offshore Humanism”. The lecture will interrogate the contemporary attractions of post-humanism and ask questions about what…

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7 critical theory books that came out in August from critical-theory.com – Critchley, Thacker, Alcoff, Krell, et. al.

7 critical theory books that came out in August from critical-theory.com

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10 Steps to PhD Success – a response to the THE post on ‘failure’

10 Steps to PhD Success – a response to the THE post on ‘failure’ by Fiona Whelan. Thanks to Jeffrey Jerome Cohen for the link to this

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

A quiet week on the blog – I was in Paris most of the week doing work in the BNF (see no 4 below), which doesn’t have internet in the manuscripts room, so no distractions… The Times Higher Education on … Continue reading

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Geopoliticus Child: Drone Workshop in Neuchatel

A report on the recent drones conference in Neuchâtel.

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Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis reviewed

Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis, edited by Gerry Kearns, David Meredith and John Morrissey, reviewed at the Society and Space open site.

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“Future Fossils” Exhibition by Beth Greenhough, Jamie Lorimer and Kathryn Yusoff

A Society and Space open site forum on the notion of ‘Future Fossils’.

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A copy of Michel Foucault’s Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique

It’s fairly well known that there are various editions of Foucault’s first major work – Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique. There is the original 1961 edition: Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique, published by Plon and based … Continue reading

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The revised order of Agamben’s Homo Sacer series

Adam Kotsko has the details here. Now complete in Italian, and nearly in English: 1. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life 2.1. State of Exception 2.2. Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm 2.3. The Sacrament of Language: An Archeology of the Oath … Continue reading

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The Sociological Imagination – 40 reasons why you should blog about your research

40 reasons why you should blog about your research at The Sociological Imagination

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