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Authority and Political Technologies research network at Warwick

The Authority & Political Technologies research network at Warwick now has a webpage. This is a group started by Claire Blencowe in Sociology, which now has funding from Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study. So far the network has been internal … Continue reading →

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Adam Shatz on Benoit Peeters’s biography of Derrida in the LRB

Adam Shatz reviews Benoit Peeters’s biography of Derrida in the LRB.

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Theory of the drone 11: Necro-ethics

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
This is the 11th in a series of extended posts on Grégoire Chamayou‘s Théorie du drone and covers the first two of three chapters that constitute Part III: Necro-ethics. The title recalls Achille Mbembe‘s seminal essay on ‘Necropolitics’ [Public culture…

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Agamben and Indifference – new book by William Watkin coming soon

Agamben and Indifference, by William Watkin, coming soon with Rowman & Littlefield International: Since the publication of Homo Sacer in 1995, Giorgio Agamben has become one of the world’s most revered and controversial thinkers. His ideas on our current political … Continue reading →

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Matt Damon reads Howard Zinn on the problem with civil obedience

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience… the problem in this world is  civil obedience.” – Howard  Zinn, being read by Matt  Damon. Video available here.

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Angela Davis on freedom as a constant struggle – audio and transcript available

Angela Davis delivered the Annual Birk­beck Law Lec­ture on 25 Octo­ber 2013 – transcript here; audio recording here.

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Books received – Stoler and Derrida

Two books I’ve mentioned before – Ann Laura Stoler’s collection Imperial Debris, and Jacques Derrida’s The Death Penalty, Volume I.

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Warwick Graduate Conference in Political and Legal Theory

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Mark Blyth lecture on austerity – audio recording

Mark Blyth’s Copenhagen lecture on ‘Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea’, audio recording available here. The current on-going global financial crisis invited a reading of its inception that was based upon ‘runaway government spending’ that had to be tempered … Continue reading →

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As Above, So Below: A Colloquium on Drone Culture – call for papers

As Above, So Below: A Colloquium on Drone Culture, University of Lincoln, 24 May 2014 – keynotes from Derek Gregory and Benjamin Noys. Full details here.

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