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Bailing on Detroit

Posted on January 27, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on cities@manchester:
Jamie Peck, Department of Geograpy, UBC and Honorary Professor at SEED, University of Manchester, continues his analysis of the on-going restructuring of Detroit and its wider significance for the future of US cities. Detroit is…

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CFP 12th Aberystwyth Lancaster Graduate Colloquium – Warwick, 4-6 June 2014

Posted on January 25, 2014 by stuartelden

CALL FOR PAPERS 12th Aberystwyth Lancaster Graduate Colloquium CRITICAL APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 4-6 June 2014, University of Warwick Organised by Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick Social Sciences Doctoral Training Centre, University of Warwick — CONFIRMED … Continue reading →

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If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones (Schopenhauer)

Posted on January 25, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
As regards reading, to require that a man shall retain everything he has ever read, is like asking him to carry about with him all he has ever eaten. The one kind of food has given him…

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Reassessing Recomposition: 40 Yrs After the Publication of Anti-Oedipus, Bifo

Posted on January 25, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
Reassessing Recomposition: 40 Yrs After the Publication of Anti-Oedipus, Bifo very interesting online magazine well worth checking out other articles there

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Using works in translation – Foucault and de Beauvoir

Posted on January 25, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Dr Michael Marten FRHistS:
I have been re-reading Foucault recently, in English translation.  My French is not up to reading the original – sadly… oh if only I’d paid more attention in school! (Perhaps I should add…

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On maps and fiction in The New Yorker

Posted on January 24, 2014 by stuartelden

The New Yorker has a nice piece on maps in fiction – thanks to Jeremy Crampton for the link.

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Place, Space and Politics: New Book Series from Routledge

Posted on January 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Clive Barnett has news of a book series he is editing for Routledge – Research in Place, Space and Politics. This looks very interesting, and joins some other good series – the Antipode and RGS-IBG ones with Wiley-Blackwell, and the Geographies … Continue reading →

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Norwegian literature to go online for free – an interesting development

Posted on January 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Literature goes online for free in Norway (via AFP) Most books published in Norway before 2001 are going online for free thanks to an initiative that may have found the formula to reconcile authors with the web. At a time … Continue reading →

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Beyond Discipline and Punish: Is it time for a new translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir?

Posted on January 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Alan Sheridan’s translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir as Discipline and Punish is almost forty years old, and it is sometimes said that great works of literature need to be retranslated each generation. (For some examples of this for works … Continue reading →

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CFP: Politics without Borders – Nottingham Postgraduate Conference

Posted on January 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Politics without Borders A cross-disciplinary exploration of the challenges facing a globalised world Second annual Nottingham Postgraduate Conference 12 June 2014, Engineering and Sciences Learning Centre, University Park, University of Nottingham The School of Politics and International Relations is hosting … Continue reading →

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