Monthly Archives: August 2016

An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in LARB

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Steve Paulson interviews Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak — a joint publication between Wisconsin Public Radio and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Podcast here and text here. The discussion for the most…

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Naomi Klein, ‘Let them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World’ – video and text

Naomi Klein, ‘Let them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World’ – the Edward W. Said lecture. Naomi Klein: Let them Drown – The Violence of Othering in a Warming World from The Mosaic Rooms on Vimeo. The … Continue reading

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Neil Brenner, Critique of Urbanization – forthcoming

Neil Brenner, Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays – forthcoming in Bauwelt Fundamente series. Urbanization is transforming the planet, within and beyond cities, at all spatial scales. In this book, Neil Brenner mobilizes the tools of critical urban theory to deconstruct some … Continue reading

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Paolo Giaccaria & Claudio Minca (eds) Hitler’s Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich – now published

Paolo Giaccaria & Claudio Minca (eds) Hitler’s Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich – now out from University of Chicago Press. Lebensraum: the entitlement of “legitimate” Germans to living space. Entfernung: the expulsion of “undesirables” to create empty space for German … Continue reading

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Space, Place, and Geographic Thinking in the Humanities (video)

Originally posted on Varve:
This is a video of a talk I gave at an event co-organized by Matt Wilson which took place at Harvard a while back… part of a long and concerted effort to talk about geography as…

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Philosophy and Revolution: An Interview with G.M. Goshgarian on Althusser in Viewpoint Magazine

Philosophy and Revolution: An Interview with G.M. Goshgarian in Viewpoint Magazine (original French text is here).

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A chronological list of Agamben’s publications with comments by Adam Kotsko

A chronological list of Agamben’s publications with comments by Adam Kotsko.

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Stern review of Research Excellence Framework

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Lord Nicholas Stern’s review of the Research Excellence Framework is now available here. For those outside UK higher education, the REF is the means by which academic research is evaluated for league tables and funding.…

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