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David Harvey, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism – video of LSE talk

A video of David Harvey’s recent talk on the book here. Thanks to dmfant for the link in comments to this post previewing parts of the book.

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David Harvey, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

David Harvey has a piece at the White Review which comprises the final two chapters of his new book, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism. You can also read the Prologue: The Crisis of Capitalism This Time Around.

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Deleuze and the Passions conference in Rotterdam 16 May 2014

Programme for conference on Deleuze and the Passions here – Claire Colebrook, Jason Reid and others. Free, but registration required.

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Gastón Gordillo on The Oceanic Void

Fascinating preview of a piece by Gastón Gordillo on ‘The Oceanic Void‘ which is forthcoming in an edited book on Deleuze and space, and also part of his planned book on the theory of terrain. Among other things it engages with the … Continue reading

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Henri Lefebvre, The Critique of Everyday Life – One Volume Edition

848 pages of Henri Lefebvre – The Critique of Everyday Life: The One-Volume Edition. Three volumes in one – the first volume comes from 1947, with a second edition in 1958 that almost doubles its length; the second volume from 1961; … Continue reading

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Jonathan Bate on writing a biography of Ted Hughes – copyright, author estates and family members

A very interesting piece in The Guardian by Jonathan Bate about his writing of a biography of Ted Hughes. The issues are much wider than this particular case, and concern copyright, author estates and the role of family members. There are … Continue reading

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Henri Lefebvre, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment – online preview of introduction

The introduction to Lefebvre’s keenly anticipated Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is available to read online at Artforum. I will be interviewing editor Łukasz Stanek for the Society and Space open site in the near future.

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Books received – Derrida, Stiegler, Comay, Taubes, Azoulay & Ophir, Serres

A number of books from Stanford University Press in recompense for review work.

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Books received- Jaspers, Thompson, Heidegger, journals

Another pile of post today – three books by Karl Jaspers, including his Groningen lectures Reason and Existenz; Richard Yarwood’s Citizenship;the re-edition of E.P. Thompson’s Warwick University Ltd; the first volume of Heidegger’s Schwartze Hefte; and some new issues of … Continue reading

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Jacques le Goff (1924-2014)

Jacques le Goff, medieval historian, has died at the age of ninety. I found his work really helpful while writing The Birth of Territory, and recently consulted his collection Hérésies et sociétés dans l’Europe pré-industrielle, 11e-18e siècles in which Foucault has a chapter. There … Continue reading

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