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Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
Claire Pagès and Mathieu Trachman conduct a concise but wide-ranging interview with Judith Butler at Books & Ideas, in which she asks this about neo-liberalism and the economic: ‘[I]f we claim that neo-liberalism disposes populations to…

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METAphorisms – Tim Morton and Tammy Lu

A collaborative short piece by Tim Morton and Tammy Lu.

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Mapping… – reissue of the series from Verso

Verso have reissued their Mapping series.  Mapping Ideology; edited by Slavoj Žižek; Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial, edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi and Mapping the Nation edited by Gopal Balakrishnan.

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Johnston on Haggett on the Quantocks.

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Babette Babich on the books that inspired her

At the LSE blog, Babette Babich discusses the books that inspired her – wide-ranging and fascinating reading. Babette Babich is an American philosopher known for her studies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, and Hölderlin as well as for her work in … Continue reading →

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Patricia Martin reflects on the end of the Quebec student strikes at the Society and Space open site.

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Books I’ve read and plan to read

A book meme I took from Rob Kitchin’s The View from the Blue House and first answered a year ago. As before I’ve largely answered in relation to non-academic reading… The book I’m currently reading? Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles … Continue reading →

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Pictures of a City

Some great photos of different cities collected at Urban Territory.

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Open Utopia – Thomas More online

Thomas More’s Utopia, online, in Latin and English, with related materials and lots of links (via Xenotopia).

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London skyline

Good piece on the changes to London’s skyline, and the complexities of politics, capital and planning regulations. Clever illustration too.

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