Category Archives: People

Žižek’s book on Hegel forthcoming

Slavoj Žižek’s Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism is not yet on the Verso site, but is appearing in online bookshops (i.e. Amazon). 1,200 pages (!) and April 2012. [update – You can find the table … Continue reading

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Dialogues in Human Geography new issue

The latest issue of Dialogues in Human Geography is now online (requires subscription). It includes a piece from John Allen entitled ‘Topological twists: Power’s shifting geographies’ with responses from Anssi Paasi, me, Mat Coleman and Alan Latham. There is also a … Continue reading

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A book reading meme

A book meme I took from Rob Kitchin’s The View from the Blue House. I’ve largely answered in relation to non-academic reading… The book I’m currently reading? Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood The last book I finished? Thaisa Frank, Heidegger’s Glasses … Continue reading

Posted in Books, China Mieville, Gottfried Leibniz, H.P. Lovecraft, Martin Heidegger, Peter Gratton, Umberto Eco, Wu Ming | 2 Comments

Elden, Gregory, Sevilla-Buitrago in ACME

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, Vol 10 No 2 is now available. It includes the English version of a discussion between me, Derek Gregory and Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago that was originally published earlier this year in a Spanish translation: … Continue reading

Posted in Books, David Harvey, David N. Livingstone, Derek Gregory, Henri Lefebvre, John Locke, Mapping the Present, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Politics, Publishing, Speaking Against Number, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World, Understanding Henri Lefebvre, Universities | Leave a comment

Roundup – things to read

Hardt and Negri on “The Problem of Transition” (supposedly on the Occupy movement, but really an excerpt from Commonwealth) David Campbell – ‘The elusive enemy: Looking back at the “war on terror’s” visual culture’ On Landscape Ontology: An Interview with … Continue reading

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Derek Gregory – ‘Lines of Descent’

Derek Gregory’s ‘Lines of Descent’ essay is available at Open Democracy. There are a number of other papers linked to this weekend’s ‘Shock and Awe’ conference here.

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Neil Brenner – “The Urbanization Question, or, the Field Formerly Known as Urban Studies”

Neil Brenner’s inaugural lecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard:

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Deleuze, Philosophy, Transdisciplinarity conference

“Deleuze, Philosophy, Transdisciplinarity”, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London, February 10-11, 2012. Impressive list of invited speakers: Eric Alliez, Miguel de Beistegui, John Mullarkey, Laura Cull, Christian Kerslake, Thomas Baldwin, Iain MacKenzie, Nathan Widder, Andrew Goffey, Stamatia Portanova. … Continue reading

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Leibniz and geography

Despite my Shakespearean distractions at the weekend, I had some time late last week and today to return to the ‘Another Leibniz’ paper I last worked on properly in September. The paper is something of a survey of Leibniz’s non-standard … Continue reading

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Lectures on Heidegger – videos

A series of lectures on Heidegger – Holger Zaborowski, William McNeill, Richard Capobianco, Richard Polt, Theodore Kisiel, Charles Bambach… thanks to Paul Harrison for the link.

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