Monthly Archives: March 2016

10 Critical Theory books that came out in February 2016

critical-theory.com has another useful roundup of recent books… Guattari, Reber, Dean, Verso Radical Thinkers Set 12 and more…

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Henri Lefebvre: Rural Sociology, Ground Rent and the Politics of Land – project funding from the ISRF

I’m pleased to announce that along with Adam David Morton (Political Economy, University of Sydney) I have been awarded a small grant from the Independent Social Research Foundation for the project ‘Henri Lefebvre’s writings on Rural Sociology, Ground Rent and the Politics … Continue reading

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Society and Space Volume 34 Issue 2 now online

New issue of Society and Space now online – requires subscription

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The Biopolitics of Birth: Michel Foucault, the Groupe Information Santé and the Abortion Rights Struggle – in Viewpoint Magazine

“The Biopolitics of Birth: Michel Foucault, the Groupe Information Santé and the Abortion Rights Struggle” – in Viewpoint Magazine (open access). This is an edited excerpt from the manuscript of my book Foucault: The Birth of Power, Polity Press, forthcoming 2017. Also … Continue reading

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Mark Neocleous, The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and the ‘Enemies of All Mankind’ – now out with Routledge

Mark Neocleous, The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and the ‘Enemies of All Mankind’ – now out with Routledge. The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy. This book is a radical exploration of an Enemy that has recently emerged from … Continue reading

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The Funambulist Magazine issue 4 – Carceral Environments

The fourth issue of The Funambulist Magazine is now published. After examining the politics of space/design and bodies of militarized cities, suburbs, and clothing, it is now the turn of Carceral Environments to be investigated by the talented contributors to the magazine. This issue examines various forms of incarceration … Continue reading

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Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South, edited by Ananya Roy and Emma Shaw Crane

Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South, edited by Ananya Roy and Emma Shaw Crane, now out with University of Georgia Press. Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories … Continue reading

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Ingo Farin and Jeff Malpas (eds.) Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1931-1941 – out in late March

Also on the ‘Black Notebooks’, Ingo Farin and Jeff Malpas (eds.) Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1931-1941 will be out in late March. For more than forty years, the philosopher Martin Heidegger logged ideas and opinions in a series of notebooks, known as … Continue reading

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Donovan Irven reviews David Farrell Krell’s Ecstasy, Catastrophe: Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks

Donovan Irven reviews David Farrell Krell’s Ecstasy, Catastrophe: Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks at Phenomenological Reviews (open access).  

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The Guardian’s Shakespeare Solos series continues with six new films

The Guardian’s Shakespeare Solos series continues with six new films

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