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Rodney Harrison and Colin Sterling (eds.), Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene – Open Humanities Press (open access), 2020

Rodney Harrison and Colin Sterling (eds.), Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene – Open Humanities Press (open access), 2020. Understanding how pasts resource presents is a fundamental first step towards building alternative futures in the Anthropocene. … Continue reading →

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Theodor W. Adorno, Notes to Literature (combined edition) – Columbia University Press, 2019

Theodor W. Adorno, Notes to Literature (combined edition) – Columbia University Press, 2019, edited by Rolf Tiedemann, translated by Shierry Weber Nicholson, with a new introduction by Paul Kottman. I’d missed this when it was published late last year. Notes … Continue reading →

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The Archaeology of Foucault Update 4: The term from hell, Foucault in Brazil and Tunisia, and the problems of archival research in a pandemic

This was an exceptionally difficult term – probably the hardest I can remember in twenty-five years of working in universities. It was very hard to make any progress on this manuscript – the fourth and final book in this sequence … Continue reading →

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Emanuel Clairizio, Robert Poma and Michel Spanò (eds.), Milieu, mi-lieu, milieux – Éditions Mimesis, 2020

Emanuel Clairizio, Robert Poma and Michel Spanò (eds.), Milieu, mi-lieu, milieux – Éditions Mimesis, 2020 Georges Canguilhem af­firmait que la notion de milieu s’était constituée « comme catégorie de la pensée contemporaine ». En effet, depuis que la biologie de … Continue reading →

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New Book – Circling Marx: Essays 1980-2020

Originally posted on thesis eleven:
A new book of essays by Peter Beilharz, Sichuan University Circling Marx: Essays 1980-2020 (Brill, 2020) Karl Marx circles us, and we him. This reflects the power of his legacy, but it also indicates the…

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Mark Laurence Jackson and Mark Hanlen, Securing Urbanism: Contagion, Power and Risk – Springer, January 2021

Mark Laurence Jackson and Mark Hanlen, Securing Urbanism: Contagion, Power and Risk – Springer, January 2021 This book is concerned with developing an in-depth understanding of contemporary political and spatial analyses of cities. In the three-part development of the book’s … Continue reading →

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Henry V: Historical and Literary Territories at War – videos of 11 December 2020 conference

Online Conference Henry V: Historical and Literary Territories at War (edited) A selection of the papers and discussions from the 11/12/2020 online conference on Henry V: Historical and Literary Territories at War / Territoires d’histoire, territoires littéraires en guerre (Université … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory on the end of his teaching career

Derek Gregory on the end of his teaching career at his blog Geographical Imaginations. I gave my last UBC lecture on 2 December (below), but I shall – of course! – continue my research and writing. So this isn’t retirement … Continue reading →

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New Left Review new blog – Sidecar

New Left Review has a new blog – Sidecar

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Michel Foucault, Interview with Madeleine Chapsal (2020)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault, Interview with Madeleine Chapsal, The Journal of Continental Philosophy Translated by Mark G. E. Kelly, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2020, Pages 29-35 DOI: 10.5840/jcp2020876 Open accessAbstract In this 1966 interview, published here in…

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