Monthly Archives: March 2019

Originally posted on Kingston Shakespeare Seminar:
Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare symposium Saturday April 6, 2019 Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton David Garrick built his Shakespeare Temple beside the Thames at Hampton in 1755 as a place where ‘the thinkers of…

Originally posted on Kingston Shakespeare Seminar:
After last’s summer’s series of days on French theorists, we turn this year to twentieth-century political theology, and to three thinkers whose work has powerfully shaped recent interpretations of Shakespearean theatre. This is our programme:…

Baudelaire and Philosophy: A Conference sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics 5-6 June 2019, Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought, Goldsmiths, University of London and the Institut Français CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for submissions: 21 March 2019 INVITED SPEAKERS … Continue reading →

Atsuko Watanabe, Japanese Geopolitics and the Western Imagination – Palgrave 2019 This book is the first attempt to comprehensively introduce Japanese geopolitics. Europe’s role in disseminating knowledge globally to shape the world according to its standards is an unchallenged premise … Continue reading →

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
by Roger Luckhurst in the LARB. ?

The journal Antipode is 50. The editors have put together an e-book of ‘Keywords in Radical Geography‘, free to download.

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
After Capital by Couze Venn – book discussion, Goldsmiths, 25 March 2019, 6pm Update 12 March 2019: I’ve just been told the event has been cancelled due to ill-health. Panel discussion on this ground-break new…

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Thomas Lemke, Foucault’s Immanent Contradictions, Verso Blog, 22 February 2019 From Habermas to Honneth, critics have been keen to portray Foucault as a paradox-prone thinker. Thomas Lemke argues that we should embrace the recurring contradictions…