Category Archives: People

Albert Toscano on Fanaticism

Alberto Toscano has a new piece at the Verso blog, which is the preface to the forthcoming Korean edition of his book Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea.

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Sloterdijk paper from the AAG

My talk on Peter Sloterdijk at the AAG, especially looking at In the World Interior of Capital, is available here. The conference was held in the Westin Bonaventure hotel – something I refer to around 14 minutes in. The air-conditioning … Continue reading →

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Social Justice and the City – CFP for Hong Kong Conference

Call for Papers: An International Conference on Social Justice and the City Organised by Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, on 4th – 6th December, 2013 at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong In Memory of Neil Smith, Who Had Devoted … Continue reading →

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The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon

Now listed on the Cambridge University Press website though not out until January 2014 – The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, edited by Leonard Lawlor and John Nale. This is an expensive reference work – I wrote the entry on ‘space’, which was about 2,600 … Continue reading →

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Leibniz paper forthcoming in Geographica Helvetica

My paper on Leibniz, now under the title ‘Leibniz and Geography: Geologist, Palaeontologist, Biologist, Historian, Political Theorist and Geopolitician’ is forthcoming with Geographica Helvetica. Given that journal’s remit of crossing between linguistic traditions, it is a fitting home for a … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality – e-book

Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality, an open-access e-book edited by Sven-Olov Wallenstein and Jakob Nilsson, with essays by Thomas Lemke, Johanna Oksala, Catherine Mills, Julian Reid, Lukasz Stanek, Helena Mattsson, Warren Neidich, Cecilia Sjoholm, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Adenna Mey. Foucault’s work on biopolitics and governmentality … Continue reading →

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The AAG meeting

I’ve spent the last week in Los Angeles for the Association of American Geographers annual meeting. It was mainly in the Westin Bonaventure hotel – made famous in the 1980s by the readings of Fredric Jameson and Edward Soja. I … Continue reading →

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Taubes-Schmitt correspondence

To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections by Jacob Taubes translated by Keith Tribe and with an introduction by Mike Grimshaw, has just been published by Columbia University Press. The announcement on the AUFS blog has a discount code.

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Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis reissue

I mentioned the forthcoming Korean translation of Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis a couple of days ago. I’ve just heard that the English translation is being reissued this autumn by Bloomsbury (who bought Continuum) with a cheaper price in their Revelations series. … Continue reading →

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Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis to be translated into Korean

Lefebvre’s little book Elements of Rhythmanalysis, which Gerald Moore and I translated into English, is coming out in Korean translation with Galmuri Press. They’ve just asked me to give permission for my introduction to be translated alongside Lefebvre’s text. This … Continue reading →

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