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Álvaro Reyes (2015) Zapatismo: other geographies circa “the end of the world” Spanish translation

Spanish translation of a piece in Society and Space – English original is currently open access.

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Foucault on Frans Hals, The Regents and the History of Madness

In his 1971 interview with Fons Elders, rediscovered and then padded out to form a small book entitled Freedom and Knowledge, Foucault says that publishers have tended to illustrate his work on madness with Bruegel, Bosch and Goya. But he … Continue reading

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Benedict Anderson tributes

Benedict Anderson has died aged 79. Tariq Ali writes and links to some tributes at Verso‘s site, and an archive of his articles can be found at the London Review of Books.

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Up to 20 Funded PhD Studentships in Politics and International Studies at University of Warwick Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies – available to pre-order Financial markets, algo-rhythms, and cities – Borch, Hansen and Lange Useful resources for academic writers Biopower: Foucault and Beyond … Continue reading

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Steve Mentz, Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719

Steve Mentz, Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719 now out. The familiar story of shipwreck revealed as an allegory of ecological catastrophe. Traces of shipwreck ecology appear in canonical literature from Shakespeare to Donne and also in sermons, tales of … Continue reading

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Slavoj Žižek – Hegelian Battles – 3 Lectures

Slavoj Žižek – Hegelian Battles – audio recordings of Birkbeck lectures from December 2015. The battle for Hegel goes on – new interpretations are emerging which perhaps pose an even greater threat to Hegel’s legacy than the usual rejections of Hegel. … Continue reading

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Elemental Ecocriticism – Thinking with Earth, Air, Water and Fire

Elemental Ecocriticism – Thinking with Earth, Air, Water and Fire – now out from University of Minnesota Press, edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert. Brings to ecotheory and the environmental humanities the challenges and possibilities offered by thinking … Continue reading

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Keith Thomas on the working methods of a historian (archive)

Keith Thomas on the working methods of a historian – archive piece from the LRB. I shared this back in the early days of this blog, but I came across it again today, and it’s worth another read.

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Useful resources for academic writers

Raewyn Connell open access e-book Writing for Research (via Clive Barnett) Michelle Lipinski, ‘The Path to Publishing Your First Book‘, at Stanford University Press blog And, less serious and more experimental, McKenzie Wark’s 2013 advice on ‘How to Beat Writer’s Block‘

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Deleuze and Anarchism and and and

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
Dear anarchists and Deleuzians, We are developing a book proposal for the Deleuze Connections series (http://www.euppublishing.com/series/delco), titled Deleuze and Anarchism. We feel that a book length collection focusing on the myriad intersections between Deleuze and…

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