Category Archives: People

Martin Heidegger, The Event reviewed by Miguel de Beistegui

Martin Heidegger, The Event is reviewed by Miguel de Beistegui at NDPR.

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Simon Critchley discusses Hamlet

In The Guardian Simon Critchley discusses Hamlet – a preview of his recently published co-authored book The Hamlet Doctrine, with Jamieson Webster.

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Derek Gregory – The Natures of War

Derek Gregory to give the inaugural Neil Smith lecture at St Andrews on 14 November 2013.

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Richard Polt’s The Emergency of Being – now in paperback

Enowing has the good news that Richard Polt’s The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger’s “Contributions to Philosophy” is coming out in paperback, with a new preface. The new preface is also available online. hen this book came out, I reviewed it for Continental Philosophy Review (freely … Continue reading

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John Agnew review of Stephen Legg (ed.) Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt

John Agnew reviews Stephen Legg (ed.) Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos in Progress in Human Geography – here (requires subscription).

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Books received

An early book by Jane Bennett, Giddens’s The Politics of Climate Change, Kelly Oliver’s Technologies of Life and Death, and the new issues of Area, RIPE, British Academy Review and Law & Literature. The last has my piece on King … Continue reading

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The ‘Fiche Technique’ from Foucault, Power, Norm, Strategy – available online

I’ve previously posted about my finally getting a copy of the long out-of-print Michel Foucault, Power, Truth, Strategy – hard to find and generally expensive second-hand. This contains some translations of pieces by Foucault (many are in Power/Knowledge in different … Continue reading

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The Globalization of Space: Foucault and Heterotopia

Heterotopian Studies has news of a forthcoming collection entitled The Globalization of Space: Foucault and Heterotopia.

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Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation – book series news

Nik Heynen has news of changes to the editorial board of the Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation book series, along with news of the Neil Smith book prize.

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David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2

Now out from Verso, David Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2. The first volume A Companion to Marx’s Capital appeared in 2010. Videos of the lectures on which these books are based are available at http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

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