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Andy Merrifield uses Rousseau to think about inequality, old and new.

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Originally posted on Biblioklept:
Read Teju Cole’s essay “A Reader’s War,” which tries to square Obama’s reputation as a man “widely read in philosophy, literature, and history” with the White House’s policies of drone warfare. From the essay: How on…

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Originally posted on Foucault News:
Alessandro Fontana 1939 -2013 Alessandro Fontana was Emeritus Professor of Italian Studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the author of numerous essays which were partially collected in Il vizio occulto (1989) and…

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A new review by Cynthia Weber at the Socety and Space open site.i

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Quentin Skinner interview

Historian of political thought Quentin Skinner is interviewed at 3am magazine (via Continental Philosophy).

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Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
Social Science Bites has a podcast and interview transcript of an interview with Doreen Massey up. You can listen to the interview here or view the transcript and other info here. Here is the…

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Boko Haram, Shakespeare and Territory – talks at L.S.E. and Aberystwyth

I’m giving three talks this coming week – at the London School of Economics and Aberystwyth University. At the L.S.E. I’ll be giving the first version on a paper under the working title of “Nigeria’s ‘War on Terror’: The Geopolitics … Continue reading →

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Brett Christophers – Banking Across Boundaries

Brett Christophers’s new book Banking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism has just been published. It’s part of the Antipode Book Series, and comes with glowing endorsements from David Harvey, Mary Poovey and Leonard Seabrooke. There are excerpts available to … Continue reading →

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Books received

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Thomas Nail, Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo

Thomas Nail’s Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo is reviewed at NDPR. We are witnessing the return of political revolution. However, this is not a return to the classical forms of revolution: the capture of the state, the political … Continue reading →

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