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Adam Kotsko interview in The Revealer on The Prince of this World

Adam Kotsko interview in The Revealer – The Prince of This World: Adam Kotsko and Patrick Blanchfield in Conversation Adam Kotsko is a prolific writer and scholar whose work has tackled subjects ranging from the Church Fathers to prestige TV to … Continue reading

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Words in Worlds: An Interview with Kathleen Stewart in Cultural Anthropology

Words in Worlds: An Interview with Kathleen Stewart in Cultural Anthropology, conducted by Andrés Romero and Toby Austin Locke. Thanks to Ben Anderson for the link.

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The Guardian on ‘the insidious creep of pseudo-public space in London’

The Guardian has an interesting and disturbing feature on ‘the insidious creep of pseudo-public space in London‘; along with a commentary by Bradley L. Garrett. The map itself is here.  

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Marianne Janack, María Pía Lara, Eduardo Mendieta, and Martin Woessner – A Forum on Richard Rorty

Marianne Janack, María Pía Lara, Eduardo Mendieta, and Martin Woessner – A Forum on Richard Rorty in the Los Angeles Review of Books AFTER DONALD J. TRUMP was elected president of the United States, the American philosopher Richard Rorty (1931–2007) … Continue reading

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Stuart Hall: In Conversations

Stuart Hall: In Conversations Explore the life, work and legacy of a thinker that some call the last of the great public intellectuals and a figure widely credited with being the founder of cultural studies: this man is Stuart Hall. … Continue reading

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Rhetoric, Fascism and the Planetary: A Conversation between William Connolly and Nidesh Lawtoo

Rhetoric, Fascism and the Planetary: A Conversation between William Connolly and Nidesh Lawtoo at The Contemporary Condition. As well as talking about Connolly’s recent book, Facing the Planetary, it also discusses themes from his next, the forthcoming Aspirational Fascism.

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Pamela L Gay, ‘The Unacknowledged Costs of Academic Travel’ at Medium

Pamela L Gay, The Unacknowledged Costs of Academic Travel at Medium An interesting discussion of the procedures for academic travel and its reimbursement. It’s US focused, but the issue is much wider. I seem to be continually owed money by three … Continue reading

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Remigiusz Ryziński discusses Foucault’s time in Poland

Remigiusz Ryziński discusses his book Foucault w Warszawie, an account of the short period Foucault spent in Poland in the late 1950s – between his time in Uppsala and Warsaw. While the interview is in Polish, machine translation seems to … Continue reading

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Marcus Doel’s Geographies of Violence in the Society and Space book series now published

Marcus Doel’s book Geographies of Violence: Killing Time, Killing Space is now published. This is the third book to appear in the Society and Space book series I edit with Sage. We experience violence all our lives, from that very first scream … Continue reading

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Free planners and guides for writing, planning and collaboration

These look useful – free planners and guides for writing, planning and collaboration

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