Category Archives: Books

The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon

Now listed on the Cambridge University Press website though not out until January 2014 – The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, edited by Leonard Lawlor and John Nale. This is an expensive reference work – I wrote the entry on ‘space’, which was about 2,600 … Continue reading →

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Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis reissue

I mentioned the forthcoming Korean translation of Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis a couple of days ago. I’ve just heard that the English translation is being reissued this autumn by Bloomsbury (who bought Continuum) with a cheaper price in their Revelations series. … Continue reading →

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Istanbul and Los Angeles

Just about to hit the road again, to conferences in Istanbul and Los Angeles. I’ll be speaking about Boko Haram in Istanbul, at a meeting of the Open Society Institute’s academic fellowship program. This gives me a chance to meet … Continue reading →

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Warren Montag, Althusser and his Contemporaries – introduction

As I’ve mentioned here previously, Warren Montag’s Althusser and his Contemporaries is coming soon from Duke University Press. The introduction is available here.  

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The Birth of Territory proofs and index

The proofs and index for The Birth of Territory are now done. I think that’s it for work on this book from my side, though I’m still awaiting the cover design. I wrote a bit about the experience of looking … Continue reading →

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Verso Radical Thinkers – series 8 and call for suggestions

From Sebastian Budgen at Verso – comments below are fine and I’ll pass them on: Series 8 of Radical Thinkers will consist in the following: Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings –  Louis Althusser Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical … Continue reading →

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Foucault lecture at Memorial University Newfoundland – audio recording

The audio recording of the George Story Lecture in Humanities I gave at Memorial University of Newfoundland, entitled “Knowledge, Truth, Power: The Politics of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir”, is now available here. There is a gap in the recording about … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory – University of Chicago Press page and preorder

The University of Chicago Press page for my book The Birth of Territory is now up with the description, an endorsement from John Agnew, and the table of contents. It will be available in cloth and paperback simultaneously. The paperback is $30, which … Continue reading →

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Call for Contributors to Critical Animal Geographies edited volume

Reposted from crit-geog-forum: Fifteen years after the publication of the groundbreaking Animal Geographies (Wolch & Emel 1998), followed by Animal Spaces, Beastly Places (Philo & Wilbert 2000), a growing number of geographers now readily acknowledge the nonhuman animal as an … Continue reading →

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Books received

Mainly in recompense for some review work for OUP for the Shakespeare project, but also an early Heidegger lecture course, Tim Cresswell’s Geographic Thought, the new issue of Society and Space, a journal I didn’t know before called CRIOS (Critica degli … Continue reading →

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