Category Archives: People

Stiegler and Technics

Stiegler and Technics, edited by Christina Howells and Gerald Moore, is due out in September with Edinburgh University Press.

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Terricide and Terracide

Developing the work on the concept of ‘earth’ that I am currently undertaking, my RGS-IBG paper this year is on ‘Terricide‘, a concept taken from Henri Lefebvre’s De l’État. In De l’État, Lefebvre suggests (Vol I, p. 39) that he takes … Continue reading

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Esposito, Third Person reviewed at NDPR

Roberto Esposito’s Third Person is reviewed at NDPR.  

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Wu Ming interview

The novelist-collective Wu Ming are interviewed in Art Review about their new novel Altai, a sequel to Q, which appeared under their previous ‘name’ of Luther Blissett.

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Deleuze, Lefebvre, Gadamer, Dworkin, Gandhi, Churchill

Some interesting company in the Bloomsbury Revelations series…

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After Neoliberalism? The Kilburn Manifesto

Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin launch the Kilburn Manifesto. Stuart Hall explains the purpose in The Guardian; and the first chapter can be downloaded here. Although the neoliberal economic settlement is unravelling, its  political underpinning remains largely unchallenged. … Continue reading

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Social Justice and the City at 40

Details of a conference in New York celebrating 40 years of David Harvey’s classic Social Justice and the City (via Harvey’s blog).

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On writing books

Yesterday I reblogged Graham Harman’s post about his forthcoming Latour book Prince of Nodes (a sequel to Prince of Networks). In that post he reflects on how this means he is contracted to write three books simultaneously.  He suggests that … Continue reading

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Interview with Iain Hamilton Grant

Interview with Iain Hamilton Grant at the After Nature blog, which touches on art, his books on nature and idealism, Hegel, and his forthcoming work.

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Karl Marx’s work habits

Writing advice from Karl Marx – from a piece of satire inspired by Sperber’s new biography. Whatever you make of his ideas, let alone their later proponents, it’s undeniable that Marx was astonishingly prolific: an unfinished project to publish his … Continue reading

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