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Michael J. Shapiro, Politics and Time

Michael J. Shapiro, Politics and Time, now out with Polity. Catastrophic events like the bombing of Hiroshima, Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, and drone strikes periodically achieve renewed political significance as subsequent developments summon them back to public awareness. … Continue reading

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‘Production of Inequalities: Realities and Prospects for Change in Jerusalem’, Centre for Jerusalem Studies, Al-Quds University, 3-5 December 2016

Production of Inequalities: Realities and Prospects for Change in Jerusalem Centre for Jerusalem Studies, Al-Quds University 2016 Call for Abstracts With the benevolent grant from the Ghussein Fund, Al-Quds University through the Centre for Jerusalem Studies, in partnership with the Philosophy, … Continue reading

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Beginning work on the proofs of Foucault: The Birth of Power

Today I’m beginning work on the proofs of Foucault: The Birth of Power. They look to be in a good state, so this should be reasonably straight-forward. The book should be out in early 2017 – January or early February. There … Continue reading

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Interviews on Foucault’s Last Decade – one out, one discussion forthcoming

Peter Gratton kindly links to my Interview with Eugene Wolters at critical-theory.com, which I shared at the weekend, and also mentions that he is currently interviewing me, along with Eduardo Mendieta and Dianna Taylor, for Symposium. The interview uses the book as a starting … Continue reading

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Nietzsche & Critical Social Theory – Affirmation, Animosity, Ambiguity, San Diego, 28-29 Jan 2017

Nietzsche & Critical Social Theory – Affirmation, Animosity, Ambiguity, San Diego, 28-29 Jan 2017. Douglas Kellner is giving the keynote address.

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An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in LARB

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Steve Paulson interviews Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak — a joint publication between Wisconsin Public Radio and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Podcast here and text here. The discussion for the most…

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Neil Brenner, Critique of Urbanization – forthcoming

Neil Brenner, Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays – forthcoming in Bauwelt Fundamente series. Urbanization is transforming the planet, within and beyond cities, at all spatial scales. In this book, Neil Brenner mobilizes the tools of critical urban theory to deconstruct some … Continue reading

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Naomi Klein, ‘Let them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World’ – video and text

Naomi Klein, ‘Let them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World’ – the Edward W. Said lecture. Naomi Klein: Let them Drown – The Violence of Othering in a Warming World from The Mosaic Rooms on Vimeo. The … Continue reading

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Paolo Giaccaria & Claudio Minca (eds) Hitler’s Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich – now published

Paolo Giaccaria & Claudio Minca (eds) Hitler’s Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich – now out from University of Chicago Press. Lebensraum: the entitlement of “legitimate” Germans to living space. Entfernung: the expulsion of “undesirables” to create empty space for German … Continue reading

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Space, Place, and Geographic Thinking in the Humanities (video)

Originally posted on Varve:
This is a video of a talk I gave at an event co-organized by Matt Wilson which took place at Harvard a while back… part of a long and concerted effort to talk about geography as…

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