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Mainly bought second-hand for the new project, along with Milton Santos, For a New Geography, sent by University of Minnesota Press, and Cat Moir, Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism.

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Philipp Felsch, The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990, (Translated by Tony Crawford), Polity, 2021 ‘Theory’ – a magical glow has emanated from this word since the sixties. Theory was more than just…

Milton Santos, The Nature of Space, translated by Brenda Baletti (Duke, 2021). In The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders intersect in the construction of space. Santos offers a … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Cat Moir,?Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics?– hardback Brill 2019; paperback?Haymarket, 2020 Discussion 14 December 2021, 5pm – details and registration here Update: the stream of this discussion will be here Cat Moir’s 2020…

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault in the Panopticon How Michel Foucault’s encounters in Poland’s heavily policed gay community informed his ideas GEOFF SHULLENBERGER | Reason, FROM THE DECEMBER 2021 ISSUE In 1958, the 32-year-old philosopher Michel Foucault arrived in…

Angela Davis: An Autobiography – new edition, Haymarket, January 2022 Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements for more than 50 years. First published and edited … Continue reading →

Originally posted on andy merrifield:
 Guy Debord has been dead twenty-seven years today. In Panegyric, his elegiac autobiography, the author of The Society of the Spectacle famously said that more than anything else his life had been marked by the…

Alex Danchev, Magritte: A Life – Profile, November 2021 Great to see this book is now out – completed after Danchev’s untimely death by Sarah Whitfield. There is a review in The Guardian. ‘The first significant biography of the artist’ … Continue reading →