Monthly Archives: June 2020

Richard J. King, Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby Dick – University of Chicago Press, November 2019 Missed this when it came out, but looks a very interesting study of a great novel. Although Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Frédéric Keck, Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts – Duke UP, January 2020 I’d missed this when it came out early this year, so thanks to Sebastien Nobert for the link.…

Forensic Architecture reconstruction of 2011 Mark Duggan shooting Their own webpage is here; see also the report in The Guardian.  As the report says, “FA’s work on the case will feature in an exhibition on police violence in London curated by activist … Continue reading →

David Lambert and Peter Merriman (eds.), Empire and mobility in the long nineteenth century – Manchester University Press, June 2020 Mobility was central to imperialism, from the human movements entailed in exploration, travel and migration to the information, communications and … Continue reading →

Juan Francisco Salazar, Céline Granjou, Matthew Kearnes, Anna Krzywoszynska, Manuel Tironi (eds.), Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory – Bloomsbury, June 2020 This book presents a novel and systematic social theory of soil, and is representative of the … Continue reading →

Geographers, sociologists, philosophers etc. on covid-19 – this list continues to be updated, though more sporadically. Particularly recent updates include some pieces on the future of universities.

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Gregg Lambert, The Elements of Foucault, University of Minnesota Press | 152 pages | May 2020 Posthumanities Series, volume 55 ISBN 978-1-5179-0878-2 | paper | $23.00 ISBN 978-1-5179-0877-5 | cloth | $92.00 A new conceptual…

I was very sorry to hear of the death of Ron Johnston, whose impact in geography and political science was extensive. I didn’t know him at all really – just a few meetings at conferences or elsewhere, but he was … Continue reading →

Originally posted on The Philosophy of Movement:
At our website “The Deleuze Seminars” we are creating edited, paginated, and formatted pdfs of Deleuze’s lectures in order to make printable versions of the material more reader-friendly and accessible. We have just…