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Louise Amoore on ‘Cloud geographies: Computing, data, sovereignty’ in Progress in Human Geography

Louise Amoore on ‘Cloud geographies: Computing, data, sovereignty’ in Progress in Human Geography (requires subscription). The architecture of cloud computing is becoming ever more closely intertwined with geopolitics – from the sharing of intelligence data, to border controls, immigration decisions, … Continue reading

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Interview with Mark Blyth at E-IR

Interesting interview with Mark Blyth at E-IR on international political economy, the uses of theory, ‘Brexit’, austerity and other contemporary politics. The interview ends with a strident answer to the question ‘What is the most important advice you could give … Continue reading

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Brian Jordan Jefferson – Policing, Whiteness, and the Death-Wage

The second commentary on Black Lives Matter at the Society and Space open site.

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Books received – Extraterritorialities, Dunleavy, review work for Routledge, Shakespeare

I’ve done three manuscript reviews for Routledge this summer, and this is the first instalment of books in recompense. Also in the pile, a copy of Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds, in which I have a chapter; an inspection copy of … Continue reading

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In Phenomenological Reviews, a look at an Edited Collection on the Black Notebooks

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Jeff Malplas and Ingo Farin edited the collection, which contains a cast of many well-known Heidegger specialists. It is, on the whole, more sympathetic to Heidegger (or what is culled down…

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Urban Cultural Studies: Call for abstracts – AAG in Boston April 5-9, 2017

Urban Cultural Studies: Call for abstracts – AAG in Boston April 5-9, 2017   The AAG session on Urban Cultural Studies takes an interdisciplinary approach to the culture(s) of cities. In recent years, cities have been increasingly at the forefront of … Continue reading

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Ray Milefsky, 1949-2016 – tributes from Martin Pratt and Phil Steinberg

Ray Milefsky, who worked with the US State Department’s Office of the Geographer and Global Issues has died. I only met Ray briefly at Durham’s International Boundaries Research Unit events. He was a regular tutor at IBRU workshops, and a … Continue reading

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8 Critical Theory books that came out in July 2016

Another useful roundup – Benjamin, Malabou, Althusser et. al., Lefebvre, etc.  

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Top 10 works of fiction by philosophers

Esther Leslie has an interesting piece in The Guardian on fictions by philosophers. Benjamin, Goethe, Marx, Nietzsche et. al. Just one woman in the list. Leslie is one of the translators of Walter Benjamin’s The Storyteller, just out with Verso.

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Deborah Cowen and Nemoy Lewis – Anti-blackness and urban geopolitical economy: Reflections on Ferguson and the suburbanization of the ‘internal colony’

An important commentary at the Society and Space open site.

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