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Power and Space in the City – a series of conversations at UCL

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Power and Space in the City – a series of conversations at UCL. I’ll be part of the first conversation on Powerful Urban Territories on November 18th 2014, along with Wendy Pullan, Allan Cochrane and Janet…

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Call For Papers – ‘Thinking with Algorithms’, Durham, 26-27 Feb 2015

Call For Papers for Workshop ‘Thinking with Algorithms: Cognition and Computation in the Work of N. Katherine Hayles’ Gala Theatre, Durham, 26-27 February 2015 Confirmed keynote speakers: Katherine Hayles (Duke University) Donald Mackenzie (Edinburgh University) Luciana Parisi (Goldsmiths, University of … Continue reading →

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Juliet Fall, Feminist Political Geography – the animated movie

Juliet Fall has made another short animated movie, following the one she made on The Birth of Territory, which premiered at the Tampa AAG. This one is on ‘Feminist Political Geography’, and I make a cameo appearance (I’m the one in the … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

A table showing who is part of the new materialism, and an argument as to why it is not a “turn” A new project on Lefebvre’s rural writings with Adam David Morton ‘Confession, Flesh, Power and Truth’ – my review … Continue reading →

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Latour on “Digital Methods”

Originally posted on Installing (Social) Order:
In a fascinating, apparently not-peer-reviewed non-article available free online here, Tommaso Venturini and Bruno Latour discuss the potential of “digital methods” for the contemporary social sciences. The paper summarizes, and quite nicely, the split of…

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Stuart Elden: Two Foucault reviews – Berfrois

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Lengthy review essay by Stuart Elden of two recent Foucault publications On the government of the living, and Wrong-doing, truth-telling: the function of avowal in justice, in Berfrois. Some quotes: It is perhaps too little…

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With Derrida in Oxford

Originally posted on Lesley Chamberlain:
More than thirty years ago the artist-philosopher Jacques Derrida was working in the Old Bodleian Library in Oxford when he strayed into the shop. On offer were postcards  richly and decoratively redolent of the Western…

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Warburg Institute high court ruling – good news!

Good news earlier this week about the future of the Warburg Institute library. I’ve said before how important this library was to my work on The Birth of Territory, and linked to a few earlier stages of this story. Here are … Continue reading →

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Politics Reconsidered – posts from Warwick this week

Dee Dutta and Trevor McCrisken on the implications of the US mid-terms for Obama and foreign affairs Michael Saward on ‘Political Courage‘ and the previously linked post by me and Adam David Morton, ‘Why read a long dead French Marxist … Continue reading →

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Reminder: Submission Deadline Approaching for “Inhabiting Containment” 2015

Originally posted on Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life:
Just a reminder that the November 15 submission deadline for our 2015 symposium, “Inhabiting Containment,” is rapidly approaching. See below for CFP and symposium details: Inhabiting Containment Seeking to…

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