Monthly Archives: December 2015

Financial markets, algo-rhythms, and cities – Borch, Hansen and Lange

A new companion piece to an article in Society and Space.

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Foucault: The Birth of Power update 8 – working at the IMEC archive and another visit to the Bibliothèque Nationale

Since I returned from my last visit to Paris, I had one week back in England where I gave a couple of talks on Shakespeare. One was on ‘The Majesty and Territories of King John’ at UCL’s Institute of Advanced … Continue reading

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Symposium Announcement: What Is the Urban? Registers of a World Interior

Originally posted on machines of urbanization:
Joseph Paxton, Great Victorian Way, 1855 Iowa State University, Center for Excellence in Arts and Humanities (CEAH) Symposium, April 4-5, 2016. Full details and free registration at http://www.whatistheurban.org) What Is the Urban? Registers of a World Interior…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Digital Map of the Roman Empire Before and after peer-review in a diagram “Mourning becomes the law”—Judith Butler from Paris at the Verso website (no longer available; archived version here) Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview from 1979 Antipode Intervention on Lefebvre … Continue reading

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Antipode Intervention on Lefebvre – “Towards a Metaphilosophy of the Urban” by Andy Merrifield

Antipode Intervention – “Towards a Metaphilosophy of the Urban” by Andy Merrifield. This piece discusses Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy, forthcoming in English translation with Verso. I suspect I’m not the only one thrilled by the prospect of seeing Henri Lefebvre’s great philosophical tract, Métaphilosophie, … Continue reading

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Video: David Harvey Interview: Life & Thought

Interview: Life & Thought 30 July 2015 ENFF, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Lau Kin Chi and Sit Tsui Jade interviewed David Harvey about his childhood, his studies, his work on Marx’s Capital, and his involvement in social movements. via Video: David Harvey … Continue reading

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How drones use algorithms to govern your life

Originally posted on Open Geography:
How do drones use computational methods such as algorithms to govern your life? Here are ten ways. Many people think (non-military) drones are only used by hobbyists, and then only to fly small Go-Pro cameras around.…

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Gudynas and Harvey et. al. debate on ‘friendly colonialism’ continues

Original exchanges here; now joined by two new pieces Eduardo Gudynas, ‘Friendly colonialism’ and the contradictions of our progressive governments Japhy Wilson, Estefanía Martínez, Thomas Purcell and Carla Simbaña, The Passive Aggression of Eduardo Gudynas: An Analysis CENEDET have also just published their … Continue reading

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Digital Map of the Roman Empire

An interesting digital map of the Roman Empire. Thanks to António Ferraz de Oliveria for the link.

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Interview with Thomas Nail about The Figure of the Migrant

Also at critical-theory.com, an interview with Thomas Nail about his recent book The Figure of the Migrant, published by Stanford University Press.

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