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Stanford’s Friedrich Nietzsche Series

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
I was discussing today with Alan Shrift the series that he heads up at Stanford, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. If you’re teaching Nietzsche–and I only knew of one of these…

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Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger – now available in print and open-access pdf

Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger, translated by Kenneth Mills, and edited and introduced by Stuart Elden. I’ve just received hard-copies of this book. It is now available to buy in print from Amazon as well as … Continue reading

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“Police power is emergency power, always” – profiling, state power, and drones

A report from a recent conference on ‘Reconfiguring Global Space’ in Bloomington.

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Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures: The Case of Heidegger and Foucault (2014)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Arun Iyer, Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures The Case of Heidegger and Foucault. Bloomsbury, 2014 See also Review by H.A. Nethery at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews About By systematically uncovering and comprehensively examining the epistemological…

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Putting Urban Planning on the Couch: review forum on Westin’s The Paradoxes of Planning

A review forum at Society and Space.

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

The Italian Difference: Between Nihilism & Biopolitics (pdf) ‘Neoliberalism’ and ‘Capitalism’ – what’s the difference? Palgrave’s Publishing resources for early career academics Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment (2015) Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition – forthcoming in … Continue reading

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Michael Jacobs on Las Meninas

Originally posted on Open Geography:
The writer Michael Jacobs (who died in January 2014) has a piece in today’s Observer about Las Meninas, the famous 1656 painting by Diego Velázquez analyzed by Foucault in The Order of Things. Several very nice details from…

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Books received – Shakespeare, Foucault, and Chaturvedi and Doyle’s Climate Terror

Books received – mainly in recompense for review work for Palgrave. These are the last eight volumes of the RSC Shakespeare series and Sanjay Chaturvedi and Timothy Doyle’s Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change. Also another copy of Foucault’s L’archéologie du savoir which I bought … Continue reading

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Two posts on writing at The Sociological Imagination and An und für sich

Two posts on writing at The Sociological Imagination and An und für sich. The first talks about writing being disconnected from the internet, and whether this works for different writers or not. It’s written by David Beer, reflecting on the … Continue reading

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David Harvey discusses his recent work at Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi (May 2015 video)

Via a comment on a post commenting on my post on writing after completing a book ms.

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