Monthly Archives: May 2017

Here Be Monsters: A Punctum Publishing Primer – Eileen Joy on the current state of academic publishing

Here Be Monsters: A Punctum Publishing Primer – Eileen Joy on the current state of academic publishing. Much to think about here. punctum doesn’t publish books for your grandmother’s tenure and promotion committee, which somehow, through a strange process of … Continue reading

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‘The Rise of Forensic Architecture’ – profile of Eyal Weizman and the agency in Architect magazine

‘The Rise of Forensic Architecture‘ – a fascinating  profile of Eyal Weizman and the agency in Architect magazine. Eyal’s book Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability is now available from MIT Press.

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Call for applications – Summer School for Critical Palestine/ Israel Studies, Haifa, August 2017

Mada El Carmel, a Palestinian research institute located in Haifa, is organizing a summer school that is supported by the Antipode Foundation. Full details can be found here: http://mada-research.org/en/2017/04/20/mada-summer-school-critical-palestine-israel-studies-august-2017/ Mada Summer School for Critical Palestine/ Israel Studies, Haifa, August 2017 Palestine/Israel … Continue reading

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9 Critical Theory books that came out in April

Useful roundup as ever – Deutscher, de Angelis, Lambert, Schmidt, DeLanda and Harman et. al.

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Giorgio Agamben, The Omnibus Homo Sacer – forthcoming in July from Stanford University Press

I’d seen a French translation of this, and so was wondering if there would be an English version, and here it is: Giorgio Agamben, The Omnibus Homo Sacer – forthcoming in July from Stanford University Press. 1336 pages, bringing together all … Continue reading

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Territory – The Map is Not…

Thanks to dmf for pointing me to this intriguing project: Territory – themapisnot.com Territory is a literary project about territories and the maps that will always fail to capture them. It’s about the naive dream of objectivity, and how we use … Continue reading

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Another critique of academia.edu – at Diggit Magazine

Another critique of academia.edu – ‘The end of Academia.edu: how business takes over, again‘ at Diggit Magazine. See also my post from earlier this year ‘Delete your academia.edu account… (there are other ways to share your work)‘ and the comments to … Continue reading

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Our Digital Rights to the City

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
http://meatspacepress.org/#download “‘Our Digital Rights to the City’ is a small collection of articles about digital technology, data and the city. It covers a range of topics relating to the political and economic power of technologies…

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Kurt Iveson, ‘Digital labourers of the city, unite!’ at PPE

Kurt Iveson, ‘Digital labourers of the city, unite!’ at Progress in Political Economy. For growing numbers of urban inhabitants, smartphones and their mobile apps have become essential tools for everyday life. In the decade since smartphones first became popularised, many millions … Continue reading

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