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Eight Funambulist books available from Punctum

Eight collections of pieces (of a projected fifteen) originally published at The Funambulist by Léopold Lambert are available as books – pdfs online or print-on-demand – from Punctum.

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David Harvey, Seventeen Contradictions… – introduction available online

David Harvey’s latest, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism is out in April 2014; the introduction is available online. More information here.

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Herculine Barbin dite Alexina B. Nouvelle édition (2014)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault, Herculine Barbin dite Alexina B. Première parution en 1978 Postface d’Éric Fassin Nouvelle édition suivie d’Un scandale au couvent d’Oscar Panizza en 2014 Hors série Connaissance, Gallimard Parution : 13-03-2014 En 1868 à…

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Gratton’s March 19 lecture in Dublin on object-oriented philosophy

Originally posted on Object-Oriented Philosophy:
You can listen to it HERE. This is the most serious critical engagement with my work so far, and I look forward to reading Gratton’s FORTHCOMING BOOK ON SPECULATIVE REALISM. I deal with quite a…

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Just about every country in the world is involved in a territorial dispute

In The Atlantic, with a link to the CIA World Factbook. From a quick look at the data, unsurprisingly many of these are maritime issues, some on relatively small technical details of boundaries yet to be demarcated; and some relate … Continue reading →

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The Crimea Precedent & the Post-Soviet De Facto States

Originally posted on Critical Geopolitics:
The well-known Political Science blog The Monkey Cage, now owned by the Washington Post (now owned by Jeff Bezos; we all work for Amazon now) posted earlier today a concise 3 graph summary of what our De…

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My Talk in Dublin Last Night

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
It was wonderful to meet some good friends in Dublin–a really incisive collective of people. (Greatly, Paul Ennis turned out to be as nihilistic and funny as I found him in…

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Frederic Neyrat “The Political Unconscious of the Anthropocene” Interview by Elizabeth R. Johnson

Frederic Neyrat interviewed by Elizabeth R. Johnson on the Society and Space open site.

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Klaus Dodds on ‘The Popular Geopolitics of Mysterious Flights: MH370 and Herge’s Flight 714’

An interesting piece by Klaus Dodds that links missing flight MH370 with popular geopolitics, including a Tintin story.

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Barbara Graziosi on research assessment and discrimination

Barbara Graziosi, Arts and Humanities director of Durham’s Institute of Advanced Study and Professor of Classics and Ancient History, asks “Does research assessment discriminate against female academics?” in the THE.

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