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Terry Eagleton reviews Trouble in Paradise and Absolute Recoil by Slavoj Žižek

Posted on December 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Terry Eagleton reviews Trouble in Paradise and Absolute Recoil by Slavoj Žižek in The Guardian. Here’s the great final paragraph (spoiler alert): Trouble in Paradise, with its unerring ear for political cant, is a book that everyone, not least the Masters of the Universe, … Continue reading →

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Gastón Gordillo on Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth

Posted on December 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Gastón Gordillo has posted the introduction of his review of the Forensis collection, directed by Eyal Weizman. The full review essay will appear in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space in early 2015.

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Graham Scambler on Roy Bhaskar (1944-2014)

Posted on December 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Graham Scambler has a good discussion of the work of Roy Bhaskar, who died recently.

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Vingt ans et après. Suivi de Letzlove, l’anagramme d’une rencontre (2014)

Posted on December 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Th. Voeltzel, M. Foucault, Vingt ans et après. Suivi de Letzlove, l’anagramme d’une rencontre DATE DE PARUTION : 09/10/14 EDITEUR : Verticales ISBN : 978-2-07-014665-9 EAN : 9782070146659 PRÉSENTATION : Broché NB. DE PAGES :…

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 15

Posted on December 1, 2014 by stuartelden

In the past few weeks I have continued working on Subjectivité et vérité and took a very full set of notes, far more than can be contained in this chapter. I gave a talk on this lecture course at Nottingham … Continue reading →

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Audio recording of ‘Geopolitics, Geopower, Geometrics’ – New Developments in Theory lecture at the University of Basel, 2014

Posted on December 1, 2014 by stuartelden

You can listen to the audio recording of my New Developments in Theory lecture at the University of Basel, ‘Geopolitics, Geopower, Geometrics’, here. The introduction is by Ridvan Askin. I should say that this is very similar to lectures previously … Continue reading →

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Peter J Taylor, Extraordinary Cities – now in paperback

Posted on December 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Peter J Taylor’s major book Extraordinary Cities is now available in paperback. What following is the official blurb, but the endorsements on the webpage are worth a read too. Accepting that cities are extraordinary, this book provides an original city-centred narrative … Continue reading →

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The legal, the material, and the geophysical: a few reflections on the Warwick postgraduate political geography conference

Posted on December 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Rachael Squire discusses the Warwick workshop held last week. We’re hoping to post the audio recording of Alex Jeffrey’s talk and the closing roundtable on the department blog later this week.

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How much censorship has there been in Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe?

Posted on December 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Die Zeit has a powerful piece discussing the involvement of the Heidegger family in the production of the Gesamtausgabe, the collected edition of his works. Theodore Kisiel has long called the editorial practices an ‘international scandal of scholarship‘, but this suggests … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on November 30, 2014 by stuartelden

The Structure of Hegel’s Logic – in visual form Foucault’s Last Decade Forthcoming (updated, with some more preprints) Alison Ross, Walter Benjamin’s Concept of the Image Urban Revolution Now: Henri Lefebvre in Social Research and Architecture – now published Graham Burchell … Continue reading →

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