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Juan Cole on The Middle East in 2013

At Informed Comment, Juan Cole offers some thoughts on prospects in the Middle East this year.

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Originally posted on Foucault News:
Daniel Defert, « Je crois au temps… », Propos recueillis par Guillaume Bellon, Recto/Verso, n° 1, Juin 2007. Update August 2025: This is now only available on the Wayback machine. Link in title above Daniel…

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Israel’s border fences

The West Bank wall/fence/barrier gets most of the attention. The containment of Gaza continues on all sides – its land borders with Israel; south to Egypt; most of its territorial sea occupied and certainly its airspace, while the subsoil is a … Continue reading →

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William Connolly et al – Between Deleuze and Foucault

Videos of the talks given to the recent Between Deleuze and Foucault conference are now available online (via Bodies in Movement).

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Some of Trotsky’s notes on Nietzsche translated for the first time – entirely news to me.

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Originally posted on cities@manchester:
via flickr by Marco Garofalo by Andy Merrifield, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Geography, University of Manchester “The form of a city changes quicker, alas, than the human heart” — Baudelaire “I am tempted to the belief that…

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Two funded studentships at Durham in political geography

As part of Phil Steinberg’s  move to Durham University, the Department of Geography there will be making available two fully funded studentships for incoming PhD students who will be working with him and other members of the Department’s Politics-State-Space Research … Continue reading →

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Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
You wait almost 35 years for a special issue on anarchist geographies, and then two arrive at once… Antipode‘s ‘Anarchist Geographies‘ came out late last year (you can see one of the guest editors, Simon…

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Books received

Not many academic books arrived over the Christmas break, except a new Sloterdijk translation; Mick Dillon’s collection Deconstructing International Politics and Christian Parenti’s Tropic of Chaos, along with a handful of journals.

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Politicised Literary Geographies audio recordings

The audio recordings of the talks at the Durham workshop on Politicised Literary Geographies are available here. Following a brief introduction, there are talks by James Kneale, Carolyn Pedwell, Angharad Closs Stephens and me. my talk is on the Shakespearean … Continue reading →

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