Category Archives: People

Politics and the Later Latour – call for papers

Posted on behalf of Mark Edward: Call for Papers: Politics and the Later Latour Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought Volume 4: Issue 4, November 2014 This August sees the publication of the English translation of Bruno … Continue reading →

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Terricide – RGS-IBG audio available

My talk at the recent RGS-IBG conference is available here. This was part of a session on Geo-social formations: Capitalism and the Earth (details here and here), organised by Arun Saldanha, Kathryn Yusoff and Nigel Clark. Terricide – Lefebvre, Geopolitics and the Killing … Continue reading →

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Cambridge Foucault Lexicon – forthcoming

Cambridge University Press have a page up for the forthcoming The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, edited by Leonard Lawlor and John Nale. I wrote the entry on ‘space’. It looks like this is going to be another expensive, destined for libraries … Continue reading →

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Koopman, Genealogy as Critique reviewed at NDPR

Colin Koopman’s important book on Foucault, Genealogy as Critique, is reviewed at NDPR.

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Ian Hacking on chance as worldview

Understanding Society has an interesting post about Ian Hacking’s work on chance and probability.

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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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