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Kant’s Geographies – review of Natural Science

My review of the Natural Science volume of Kant’s writings has now been published at the Berfrois website.

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Sociology at York – Sociology and Space seminar series

On Wednesday I’m going down to York to speak to the Sociology department – their blog has details of the whole term’s seminar programme, all on the theme of ‘Sociology and Space’. It’s a really interesting programme, with people from Geography, … Continue reading →

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Books received

A pile of new books including six Polity titles received in recompense for review work, Tom McCarthy’s novel C, Esposito’s Living Thought, and a few by Hegel for a possible future project.

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Two posts on the Zapatistas

Two interesting posts on the Zapatistas – at Territorial Masquerades and For the Desk Drawer. Both look at related questions around territory and geopolitics, both explicitly relate to Lefebvre’s work in various ways, but there are links to his writings on … Continue reading →

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Reading Kant’s Geography – Atlanta APA Eastern talk audio

The audio recording of my talk at the APA Eastern can be found here. I talk a bit about the session as a whole here. My talk draws on my 2009 paper “Reassessing Kant’s Geography” and also on my review of … Continue reading →

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Deleuze, Lyotard, de Gandillac, Klossowski, Derrida, Pautrat

In the comments to the ‘When Heidegger met Lacan’ post, ‘Naxos’ shares a link to this photograph from Cerisy-la-salle in 1972. left to right – Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, Maurice de Gandillac, Pierre Klossowski, Jacques Derrida, and (Bernard?) Pautrat.

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Jacob Klein, Gilles Deleuze and Francis Bacon

At New APPS, an intriguing post on Jacob Klein, Gilles Deleuze and Francis Bacon by Jeff Bell. In an earlier post, I made reference to Jacob Klein’s essay about Husserl’s history of the origin of geometry. Klein’s own work is … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek interview in Salon

Rather late linking to this.

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When Heidegger met Lacan

This photo has been doing the rounds on facebook (via Difundir Psicoanálisis). It is from Heidegger’s visit to Lacan’s home at Guitrancourt which he visited shortly before delivering the ‘What is Philosophy?’ lecture at Cerisy-la-salle in 1955. A young Kostas Axelos was the … Continue reading →

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Michael Eldred on Heidegger and world

A short piece by Michael Eldred – Being Time Space – Heidegger’s Casting of World. This essay gives an exposition of Heidegger’s late thinking on being, time and space, showing how each eventuates appropriately from the Ereignis (propriation). Three talks … Continue reading →

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