Category Archives: People

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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Critchley on Hamlet in London

Thanks to Rory Rowan for letting me know that Simon Critchley will be speaking about Hamlet in London on 29th November. Details here. (there is a video of his talk on this play – not sure if it is same … Continue reading →

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Shapiro on Shakespeare’s vocabulary

I only finished the Greenblatt book this morning, but went straight onto another Shakespeare study. Here’s an interesting passage (the book it refers to by Crystal is Think on My Words: Exploring Shakespeare’s Language): No less groundless is the argument … Continue reading →

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Greenblatt on Shakespeare’s London

With its crush of small factories, dockyards, and warehouses; its huge food markets, breweries, print shops, hospitals, orphanages, law schools, and guildhalls; its cloth makers, glassmakers, basket makers, brick makers, shipwrights, carpenters, tinsmiths, armorers, haberdashers, furriers, dyers, goldsmiths, fishmongers, booksellers, … Continue reading →

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Doreen Massey at Occupy London

A report on her speech here.

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David Macey obituary

I mentioned his sad death a few weeks back. There is now an obituary in The Guardian.

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