Category Archives: People

Gastón Gordillo’s Rubble gets closer

At his Space and Politics blog, Gastón Gordillo has posted the backcover text for his book Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction – forthcoming with Duke University Press. He also notes that there is a longer summary of the book here. I’ll be interviewing … Continue reading

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Books received

Two reissues of Foucault books, Joshua Barkan’s Corporate Sovereignty, David Farrell Krell’s Derrida and our Animal Others, Sloterdijk’s In the World Interior of Capital, and Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway.

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Global Politics: A New Introduction – second edition published

The second edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction, edited by Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss, has now been published. There is also a companion website. My chapter in here is entitled ‘Why is the world divided territorially?’ All the … Continue reading

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A Feeling for Things: A Conversation around the work of Jane Bennett

I’ve mentioned the lecture (4th October) and workshop (5th October) A Feeling for Things: A Conversation around the work of Jane Bennett before, but further details are now available. Places are going fast and booking is required. (Lots of good … Continue reading

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The Geopolitics of King Lear – pdf available

My article ‘The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth’ has now been published in Law and Literature, Vol 25 No 2, pp. 147-65. You can download the article freely here. I’m impressed by the way the University of California Press allow … Continue reading

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Resources page

While the Free Downloads page is the place to go for online content by me (articles, interviews, audio, video and reading lists), there is also a Resources page with links to the Boko Haram bibliography, translations of short texts by Foucault … Continue reading

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Grégoire Chamayou bibliography

Derek Gregory points to an excellent bibliography of works by and on Grégoire Chamayou. Derek’s series of posts on Chamayou continues – see posts seven, eight and nine.

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Issue 4 out

Society and Space issue 4 out – lots of great papers here, including ones by Crampton, Neocleous, Holt and Longhurst, and review essays by Barkan and Reid-Henry…

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Books received

Mainly some books from Routledge in recompense for review work, but also Shiloh Krupar’s Hot Spotter’s Report and the new issue of Geographica Helvetica (which included my piece ‘Leibniz and Geography‘.

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Foucault’s Last Decade – third update

See first and second updates for background to the book I’m writing (and the brief prospectus here). Recent progress has been slower than I’d have liked, as I’m in the middle of moving home and office. Ideally I would now … Continue reading

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