Category Archives: Henri Lefebvre

The Rhythmanalysis Laboratory

Website on rhythmanalysis and its uses – thanks to Tahereh Af for the link.

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Kirsch on Lefebvre’s State, Space, World

Scott Kirsch’s thorough review of Lefebvre’s State, Space, World in Antipode is now available open access here.

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Henri Lefebvre and Education

Sue Middleton’s book Henri Lefebvre and Education: Space, Theory, History is forthcoming in November with Routledge. During his lifetime Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) was renowned in France as a philosopher, sociologist and activist. Although he published more than 70 books, few were … Continue reading

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Books received

The Korean translation of Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis (including my introduction from the English translation); Jacob Taubes, To Carl Schmitt; Richard J. Bernstein’s Violence; and the 2013 diary from Passia, with a wealth of maps, information and data on Palestine, along with … Continue reading

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Jeanne Haffner, The View from Above

Jeanne Haffner’s The View from Above: The Science of Social Space has recently been published by MIT Press. In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social space” (l’espace social)—the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked—emerged in a … Continue reading

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Terricide and Terracide

Developing the work on the concept of ‘earth’ that I am currently undertaking, my RGS-IBG paper this year is on ‘Terricide‘, a concept taken from Henri Lefebvre’s De l’État. In De l’État, Lefebvre suggests (Vol I, p. 39) that he takes … Continue reading

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Deleuze, Lefebvre, Gadamer, Dworkin, Gandhi, Churchill

Some interesting company in the Bloomsbury Revelations series…

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Social Justice and the City – CFP for Hong Kong Conference

Call for Papers: An International Conference on Social Justice and the City Organised by Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, on 4th – 6th December, 2013 at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong In Memory of Neil Smith, Who Had Devoted … 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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Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis to be translated into Korean

Lefebvre’s little book Elements of Rhythmanalysis, which Gerald Moore and I translated into English, is coming out in Korean translation with Galmuri Press. They’ve just asked me to give permission for my introduction to be translated alongside Lefebvre’s text. This … Continue reading

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