Category Archives: People

‘The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List’

Verso have posted another one their lists – this time ‘The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List’. Twenty books here including Marx, Paul Mason, Peter Dews, Jameson, Anderson (Perry & Benedict), Stephen Lukes, Žižek, Eagleton, David Harvey, Therborn, Balibar, Vinayak Chaturvedi, … Continue reading

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Gaston Gordillo, The Afterlife of Places: Ruins and the Destruction of Space

At Space and Politics, Gaston Gordillo has a detailed discussion of his forthcoming book The Afterlife of Places: Ruins and the Destruction of Space. It looks to be both theoretically innovative and based on detailed fieldwork. He promises some more theoretical … Continue reading

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Ben Fraser – Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre, Space and the Culture(s) of Cities

Ben Fraser – “Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre, Space and the Culture(s) of Cities” from UK College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo. For the Prezi, and more details see the Urban Cultural Studies blog Ben runs. And his book … Continue reading

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Foucault Studies 14 – including an unpublished Foucault interview

Foucault Studies 14 is now out. The bulk of the issue is a theme section on Foucault and Queer Theory, but the highlight is a 1978 interview with Foucault conducted by Colin Gordon and Paul Patton, and introduced by Alain Beaulieu … Continue reading

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Heterotopian Studies – now with blog

The Heterotopian Studies site I mentioned a few months back has a blog attached to it – http://www.heterotopiastudies.com/blog/ It is extraordinary how this short piece by Foucault, which was not published for almost twenty years, has generated so much interest and … Continue reading

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Right to the City

New book on the right to the city, in Italian and English, with contributions by by Francesca Iovino, Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, Mark Purcell, Kolektyw Syrena, Marco Deseriis, and Jodi Dean. I got the link from Mark Purcell at Path … Continue reading

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Dark Chemistry reviews Graham Harman, Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy

Extended review of Weird Realism at the Dark Chemistry blog.

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Richard Seymour – The territorial logic of the capitalist state

Interesting post at Lenin’s Tomb on contemporary politics, states and spaces. Some discussion of Lefebvre, Gregory, Arrighi, and Harvey.

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Negri on Agamben, Opus Dei

Antonio Negri discusses Agamben’s Opus Dei, and his work more generally (via Peter Gratton and AUFS).

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Clive Barnett review of Ash Amin, Land of Strangers

At the LSE Review of Books, Clive Barnett reviews Ash Amin’s Land of Strangers.

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