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Patrick Dunleavy on the future prospects of British constitutional and political turmoil

Patrick Dunleavy discusses future constitutional and political prospects in the UK following the Scotland ‘no’ vote at the LSE blog. Thanks to Ben Rosamond for the link.

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Urbanomic new catalogue – Wolfendale, Châtelet, etc.

Innovative publishers Urbanomic have a new catalogue – including Peter Wolfendale’s Object-Orientated Philosophy, Gilles Châtelet’s To Live and Think like Pigs, Collapse VIII and more.  

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

International Conference on Critical Geography 2015, Ramallah, Palestine US geography dissertations since 1888 – analysis of title words Geopolitical Economy: States, Economies and the Capitalist World Order – call for papers Lefebvre’s beach: Gordillo on Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment … Continue reading

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Peter Gordon on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks in the New York Review of Books

Peter Gordon on Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ in The New York Review of Books (requires subscription).

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International Conference on Critical Geography 2015, Ramallah, Palestine

Details of the 2015 International Conference on Critical Geography to be held in Ramallah, Palestine, 26-30 July (via Antipode).

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Lefebvre’s beach: Gordillo on Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment

An excellent review of the recently discovered book by Lefebvre on architecture.

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Rupal Oza – India’s relations with Israel and Palestine: Tracing a tectonic shift

Another new commentary on the Society and Space open site – this time on the relation India has to the situation in Israel and Palestine.

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Nadim Khoury – Receding chronology, fragmented narratives

A thoughtful piece at the Society and Space open site on the situation in Palestine from Nadim Khoury. When I was visiting Al Quds in 2013, Nadim was one of the people I was working with – a very interesting … Continue reading

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General Organology conference on Bernard Stiegler – University of Kent, 20-22 November 2014

General Organology: The Co-individuation of Minds, Bodies, Social Organisations and Technè 20-21-22 November 2014, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Download Conference Programme Register Online (for both guests and speakers) A good lineup of speakers, including a closing keynote from Stiegler … Continue reading

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Peter Hall memorial event October 22nd 2014, RGS, London

There is a memorial event for urbanist and planner Peter Hall at the Royal Geographical Society in London on October 22nd. The event is free but pre-registration is essential. As previously posted, there is an obituary in The Guardian and one at Building Design.

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