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Book Review Symposium – Philip Mirowski’s ‘Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown’

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Guest editor: Brett Christophers, Uppsala University Philip Mirowski’s Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste is an important and distinctive contribution to debates around the politics and economics of the economic crisis which began…

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Don Mitchell on Neil Smith – long article available

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Don Mitchell‘s essay “Neil Smith, 1954-2012: Radical Geography, Marxist Geographer, Revolutionary Geographer” is available on his website. The whole thing is well worth reading, even if you know the work well. It’s a thoughtful and moving piece. What is especially … Continue reading →

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On Academic Rudeness

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

The Times Higher Education has a good piece.

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# HISTORY /// The Body as a Terrain of Experiments: Medicine and Vile Bodies According to Grégoire Chamayou

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Funambulist:
As announced in the previous article about the “thanatopolitics of death penalty,” I will propose a review of the book Les corps vils : Expérimenter sur les êtres humains aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles (Vile Bodies:…

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ACME theme issue on ‘Impact’ and ‘Enforced Disappearances’

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies Vol 13 No 1 has now been published, and includes a theme section on the impact agenda in UK higher education; as well as another theme section on enforced disappearances. As ever, all … Continue reading →

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David Lambert – Mastering the Niger

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

David Lambert’s new book Mastering the Niger: James MacQueen’s African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery has just been published by University of Chicago Press. In Mastering the Niger, David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of A … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler – Parting Ways explained in six minutes

Posted on November 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Parting Ways has just been released in paperback – embed doesn’t work so see critical-theory.com.

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Stuart Hall – Culture and Power interview from 1997 in RP now open access

Posted on November 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Radical Philosophy have made a 1997 interview with Stuart Hall, “Culture and Power” available open access.

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Interview with Adrian Ivakhiv by Harlan Morehouse

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Very interesting interview at the Society and Space open site, with Adrian Ivakhiv on his new book Ecologies of the Moving Image, conducted by Harlan Morehouse.

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Latour’s Gifford lectures – text now available as pdf

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Update 2019: These links seem to be dead, but the pdf of the lectures can be found here; and the videos here. The lectures are now available as a book – details here. Bruno Latour has made the text of … Continue reading →

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