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Mark Neocleous, The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and the ‘Enemies of All Mankind’ – now out with Routledge

Mark Neocleous, The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and the ‘Enemies of All Mankind’ – now out with Routledge. The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy. This book is a radical exploration of an Enemy that has recently emerged from … Continue reading

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The Funambulist Magazine issue 4 – Carceral Environments

The fourth issue of The Funambulist Magazine is now published. After examining the politics of space/design and bodies of militarized cities, suburbs, and clothing, it is now the turn of Carceral Environments to be investigated by the talented contributors to the magazine. This issue examines various forms of incarceration … Continue reading

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Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South, edited by Ananya Roy and Emma Shaw Crane

Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South, edited by Ananya Roy and Emma Shaw Crane, now out with University of Georgia Press. Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories … Continue reading

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Ingo Farin and Jeff Malpas (eds.) Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1931-1941 – out in late March

Also on the ‘Black Notebooks’, Ingo Farin and Jeff Malpas (eds.) Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1931-1941 will be out in late March. For more than forty years, the philosopher Martin Heidegger logged ideas and opinions in a series of notebooks, known as … Continue reading

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Donovan Irven reviews David Farrell Krell’s Ecstasy, Catastrophe: Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks

Donovan Irven reviews David Farrell Krell’s Ecstasy, Catastrophe: Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks at Phenomenological Reviews (open access).  

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The Guardian’s Shakespeare Solos series continues with six new films

The Guardian’s Shakespeare Solos series continues with six new films

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Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca (ed.) Hitler’s Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich

Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca (ed.) Hitler’s Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich – shortly 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 resettlement. … Continue reading

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Michele Lancione on “Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin” by Alexander Vasudevan

Alex Vasudevan’s book on squatting in Berlin reviewed at the Society and Space open site.

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Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? – minor updates to the reading guide

I’ve made some very minor updates to the reading guide ‘Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre?‘ The main update is a link to with a link to Benjamin Fraser’s second book on Lefebvre – Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and … Continue reading

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CFP: Foucault at 90 – 22-23 June 2016, University of West of Scotland

Foucault at 90: International Conference University of the West of Scotland Ayr Campus, Scotland, UK Call for Papers This year marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of the French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-84). This interdisciplinary conference aims to reflect … Continue reading

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