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Environment and Planning A theme issue on ‘territorial stigmatization’

Posted on June 20, 2014 by stuartelden

Environment and Planning A theme issue on ‘territorial stigmatisation’.

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Editors vs Publishers – The Times Higher story on Prometheus and Taylor & Francis

Posted on June 20, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The Times Higher has an interesting and worrying piece about the clash between the editors of a journal and their publisher Taylor & Francis. Here’s the opening few lines: A journal’s editorial board has been left on…

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First translation of Deleuze’s course on Rousseau

Posted on June 20, 2014 by stuartelden

This looks interesting – thanks to Peter Gratton for the link.

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Barry Stocker on Foucault’s Subjectivity and Truth lecture seven

Posted on June 20, 2014 by stuartelden

Barry Stocker on Foucault’s Subjectivity and Truth lecture seven – parts one and two.

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Foucault’s Lectures on Subjectivity and Truth, VI

Posted on June 18, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of 11th February, 1981 Foucault continues the theme from the previous lecture of community in marriage. He largely refers to Stoics, particularly Musonius Rufus (best known as the teacher of Epictetus. Foucault takes the discussion…

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“Thought is the courage of hopelessness” – interview with Giorgio Agamben

Posted on June 18, 2014 by stuartelden

“Thought is the courage of hopelessness: an interview with philosopher Giorgio Agamben” at the Verso blog (translated from a French original).  

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Richard Wolin on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks in the Jewish Review of Books

Posted on June 17, 2014 by stuartelden

Richard Wolin on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks in the Jewish Review of Books. I’m not a great enthusiast for Wolin’s work – Heidegger’s Children was insulting to some major thinkers in its title alone – but this is generally thoughtful and goes … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Lectures on Subjectivity and Truth, V

Posted on June 17, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Foucault claims that the civilisation that can be designated Christian (the key term here surely), western, or European is unique in its attempt to codify sexuality rather than than use the kind of continuum of evaluations,…

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Mapping the shrinking of the Arctic ice sheet in National Geographic

Posted on June 17, 2014 by stuartelden

The shrinking of the Arctic ice sheet, mapped in the new edition of the National Geographic Atlas, has been described as “the biggest visible change other than the breakup of the U.S.S.R.” Story here, via Informed Comment.

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Sean Carter and Klaus Dodds – International Politics and Film: Space, Vision, Power

Posted on June 17, 2014 by stuartelden

Sean Carter and Klaus Dodds, International Politics and Film: Space, Vision, Power. International Politics and Film introduces readers to the representational qualities of film but also draws attention to how the relationship between the visual and the spatial is constitutive of … Continue reading →

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