Monthly Archives: November 2016

The Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities hosted a panel discussion on The University and its Worlds with Achille Mbembe, Judith Butler, Wendy Brown and David Theo Goldberg on 26 May 2016 at the University of the Western Cape.

The Past & Present reading group at the University of Sydney has just completed reading Jason W. Moore’s major new book Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (Verso, 2015). The book provided very fertile … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
In his 1991 tome on postmodernism, Frederic Jameson famously suggested that under “late capitalism” – that is, the kind of globalized, flexible capitalism that tore past the limit points imposed by earlier stages of development…

Cynthia Weber’s Groningen lecture on Queer IR, which links to her book Queer International Relations: Sovereignty, Sexuality and the Will to Knowledge, out earlier this year with Oxford University Press. There is also a symposium on the book beginning at The … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Critical Geopolitics:
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia’s “near abroad”—former Soviet republics that are now independent states neighboring Russia. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the headlines, the…

Gregynog Ideas Lab VI Summer School  We are delighted to be able to announce that the Gregynog Ideas Lab VI will take place from 10 – 15 July 2017 in Newtown, Wales, UK. Set up in 2012, the Gregynog Ideas … Continue reading →

I’ve updated the list of my forthcoming publications and added a few pre-prints which are available to download. These include my article on Foucault and Shakespeare, an encyclopaedia entry on the relation between territory and the urban, and some older pieces … Continue reading →