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The Birth of Territory – author meets critics session at the AAG

Claudio Minca and Jeremy Crampton have organised an ‘author meets critics’ session on The Birth of Territory for the Association of American Geographers in Tampa next year. The panellists will be Juliet Fall, Alec Murphy, Joe Bryan and Anssi Paasi, with … Continue reading →

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Books received – Heidegger Gesamtausgabe volumes

Recently received, two huge volumes of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe. The first, itself in two parts, is Volume 73, one of the manuscripts Heidegger chose not to publish in his lifetime, under the title of Zum Ereignis Denken. This follows from … Continue reading →

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Criticism and critique: On academic books

An interesting post on how books are received for their promise rather than read and appreciated, with some good examples.

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Reassembling International Theory – new edited collection

Coming out later this month, an interesting looking collection entitled Reassembling International Theory: Assemblage Thinking and International Relations, edited by Michele Acuto and Simon Curtis. Outrageous price of £45 for 136 pages though. What can ‘assemblage thinking’ contribute to international theory? Assemblages have been invoked … Continue reading →

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Our new paper on intelligence now online

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Very excited to announce our paper “The New Political Economy of Geographical Intelligence” is now online at the publisher’s website for the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. The publishers have provided a link for…

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L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi. Conférences prononcées à Dartmouth College, 1980

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault, L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi. Conférences prononcées à Dartmouth College, 1980, Paris, Vrin, coll. « Philosophie du présent / Foucault inédit », 2013 (168 pages, ISBN 978-2-7116-2509-3, 14€). Édition établie par Henri-Paul Fruchaud…

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Foucault Doctoral Workshop – call for papers

Posted on behalf of Philippe Bonditti: Call for papers (in English and French) for the Foucault Doctoral Workshop organized by the Association pour le Centre Michel Foucault (Paris). It will take place next January 15th and 16th 2014 at IMEC (Abbaye d’Ardenne, … Continue reading →

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Rousseau – Property, Land, Territory

Mark Purcell points to Rousseau’s ‘denunciation of property’ in the second discourse: The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, … Continue reading →

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David Tennant as Richard II @TheRSC – some thoughts

I went to see Shakespeare’s Richard II in Stratford yesterday. David (Dr Who) Tennant was King Richard, but a very strong cast generally – Oliver Ford Davies as the Duke of York, Michael Pennington as John of Gaunt, Nigel Lindsay … Continue reading →

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Technicities book series by EUP

A new book series on Technicities for Edinburgh University Press.

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