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Levi Bryant interview

A very revealing interview over at New APPS… Update: There is another new interview with him at Figure/Ground.

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World, Territory, Space workshop

The workshop/Masterclass was held today. A good group of about 15, discussing four of my texts around the themes of ‘world, territory, space’ (details and links here). We discussed the use of spatial/geographical terms in and beyond Geography; the relation … Continue reading

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The Foucault Effect 1991-2011 discussant

An addition to the programme for this event (London, 3-4 June) – I’ve been asked to be a discussant to the first session on the Friday evening. Papers in that session are by Daniel Defert, Colin Gordon, Peter Fitzpatrick and Maria … Continue reading

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Spatial Justice workshop videos

The videos from the Spatial Justice workshop at the University of Westminster last year are available here. Chaired by Chantal Mouffe, it includes talks by David Harvey, Doreen Massey, Engin Isin, Mustafa Dikeç and others. (Thanks to Rory for the link.)

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Moretti on Hamlet

Franco Moretti has a piece on Hamlet in New Left Review. It’s available here, though that may require subscription, or free access in a variant form here. This is an illustration of how Moretti’s approach of not reading novels as … Continue reading

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Lee Braver interview

Figure/Ground’s latest interview is with Lee Braver – Department Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hiram College, where he teaches advanced seminars on Being and Time, Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, Foucault, Later Heidegger, Being & Nothingness, Postmodernism,  Phenomenology and Derrida. He specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century continental philosophy, history of philosophy, … Continue reading

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The Foucault Effect 1991-2011 conference

More details about this interesting looking conference are available here.

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Roundup

Speculations issue 2 is now available here Clive Barnett offers some thoughts on the now out Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography here. I guess that means my author copy is waiting for me in Durham. The writing, editing, publishing machine … Continue reading

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Neil Brenner to join GSD

Congratulations to my good friend and research collaborator Neil Brenner, who has just accepted a post as Professor of Urban Theory in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. The GSD is doing some really interesting work, including the journal … Continue reading

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Foucault and ‘The Gay Science’

The most recent issue of the journal Critical Inquiry has some interesting pieces on Foucault and his ‘The Gay Science’ interview. Parts of this have appeared before, but this issue contains the full, unedited version. Find the journal here, and open access versions … Continue reading

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