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Philosophers DVD: Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Philosophers DVD Author(s): Moderator and commentator Fons Elders Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault Sir Alfred Ayer and Arne Naess Leszek Kolakowski and Henri Lefèbvre Sir Karl Popper and Sir John Eccles A series by Fons Elders…

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Visualising The Birth of Territory – the animated movie by Juliet J Fall

Visualising “The Birth of Territory” Juliet J Fall, Université de Genève from Juliet Fall on Vimeo. This is the version of the animated presentation Juliet J Fall gave at the AAG Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida, on 7th April 2014 … Continue reading →

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Interview with Emily Brady on her book, The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature

Interview with Emily Brady at the Society and Space open site.

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Volume 32, Issue 2 now out

New issue of Society and Space out now.

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Contested urban spaces and imaginations

two new urban reviews in Society and Space.

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 11

I’d hoped to get right back to the Foucault work on my return from Australia, mainly the chapter on governmentality, but spent much time catching up on other things and getting ready for my trip to Florida (for the AAG … Continue reading →

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Nigel Thrift and Steven Koonin discuss urban science and big data

Nigel Thrift, Vice Chancellor of University of Warwick, and Steven Koonin, Director of New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress, partners in this endeavour, discussed the emerging field of applied urban science and informatics, the opportunities it presents, and … Continue reading →

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David Harvey, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism – video of LSE talk

A video of David Harvey’s recent talk on the book here. Thanks to dmfant for the link in comments to this post previewing parts of the book.

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David Harvey, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

David Harvey has a piece at the White Review which comprises the final two chapters of his new book, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism. You can also read the Prologue: The Crisis of Capitalism This Time Around.

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McKenzie Wark on the Birth of Thanaticism

McKenzie Wark on the ‘Birth of Thanaticism‘ – a replacement term for capitalism. Climate change, surveillance, public idiots, the crisis of universities, all in here… I did like the idea of the ‘inhumanities and antisocial sciences’ though…

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