Category Archives: People

Drone Imaginaries and Society, Odense, June 5-6 2018

Drone Imaginaries and Society – full details here (via Geographical Imaginations) University of Southern Denmark, June 5-6, 2018 Room Sky (Odense Campus College) Organizer: Kathrin Maurer (Phd, Dr. Phil) Associate Professor of German Studies kamau@sdu.dk Keynote Speaker: Derek Gregory: Peter Wall … Continue reading

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Books received – Harvey, Eribon, Hay, Lister & Marsh, Danchev, Goodstein

David Harvey’s The Ways of the World; the first edition of Didier Eribon’s biography of Foucault; Colin Hay, Michael Lister and David Marsh (eds.) The State: Theories and Issues; Alex Danchev’s biography of Georges Braque; and Elizabeth Goodstein’s Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary … Continue reading

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Foucault’s Last Decade reviewed at Manchester Review of Books

I’ve been rather preoccupied the last few days with hosting the second Territory workshop of the ICE-LAW project, of which more later. But I’ve just seen this very nice review of my 2016 book Foucault’s Last Decade in Manchester Review of … Continue reading

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Books received – Wilson, Beer, Park and Kaplan, Sullivan, Roudinesco, Mattern

A pile of recent books – Matthew Wilson, New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map; David Beer, Metric Power; Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan (eds.), Life in the Age of Drone Warfare; Rob Sullivan, The Geography of … Continue reading

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Trevor Paglen: art in the age of mass surveillance

Trevor Paglen: art in the age of mass surveillance in The Guardian. Trevor Paglen describes himself as a landscape artist, but he is no John Constable. The landscapes Paglen frames extend to the bottom of the ocean and beyond the … Continue reading

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Navigating Marx in the Age of Trump: An Interview With David Harvey

Navigating Marx in the Age of Trump: An Interview With David Harvey in The Observer This fall marks the 150th anniversary since the publication of Karl Marx’s Capital. In his groundbreaking series, Marx famously defined capital as value in motion, architecting an … Continue reading

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Book censorship in Turkey including Althusser, Spinoza and Camus

Thanks to G.M. Goshgarian for bringing this to my attention – Books come under suspicion in post-coup Turkey. This obviously needs to be seen in the wider context of Turkish politics, but seems indicative of what is being reported about academics … Continue reading

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Stuart Hall bibliography – compiled by Nick Beech for the Stuart Hall Foundation

Stuart Hall bibliography – compiled by Nick Beech for the Stuart Hall Foundation The Stuart Hall Foundation has published a bibliography of Stuart Hall’s published works, including all known political, literary, critical, theoretical, creative prose and poetry, interviews, and ephemera, … Continue reading

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CFP 2nd International and Multidisciplinary Conference on Baudrillard Studies – Oxford, 5-7 September 2018

Applied Baudrillard: 2nd International and Multidisciplinary Conference on Baudrillard Studies – Oxford, 5-7 September 2018 Confirmed Keynote Speakers to date: Professor Mike Gane (Loughborough University) This is the Call For Papers for the 2nd International Conference on Baudrillard Studies to … Continue reading

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Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan (eds.), Life in the Age of Drone Warfare

Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan (eds.), Life in the Age of Drone Warfare – now out with Duke University Press. This volume’s contributors offer a new critical language through which to explore and assess the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions … Continue reading

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