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More Sloterdijk editing

Another day with the Sloterdijk book. Comments on the last of the chapters in first draft, plus comments on two chapters that came back from the authors after first revisions. There is lots of fiddly editorial stuff – sorting out … Continue reading →

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Ennis, Continental Realism

Paul Ennis with news of his book So I just received an email from Zero that Continental Realism is off to the printers. I think those who have read it so far seemed to have enjoyed it and I did … Continue reading →

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Schmitt book cover

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Butler in London

via crit-geog-forum Centre for the Study of Democracy, Department of Politics & IR, University of Westminster presents: An Encounter with Judith Butler Friday 4th of February Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW Programme: 10.20am – … Continue reading →

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More editing

Another day spent editing chapters for the Sloterdijk book, with some work on the front matter and my introductory chapter. I’ve now given initial comments on all but one of the chapters I have. Also some minor copyediting queries for … Continue reading →

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Radical Foucault cfp

CALL  FOR PAPERS  Radical Foucault: A One Day Conference  Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London (culturalstudiesresearch.org)  The publication of Michel Foucault’s Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983-84 in English will be complete in April 2011 and … Continue reading →

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More Sloterdijk books

In getting the link for Sloterdijk’s Sphären, I discovered that he has two more new books coming out. I’d already mentioned Die nehmende Hand und die gebende Seite, which draws on the recent pieces he wrote that so upset Axel … Continue reading →

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Heidegger Among the Sculptors

Just finished reading Andrew Mitchell, Heidegger Among the Sculptors: Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling. It’s an interesting read, discussing four places where Heidegger engages with sculpture and/or sculptors. This includes the best known piece ‘Art and Space’, inspired … Continue reading →

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A day of editing

I’ve spent most of the day being an editor. This is not just for Society and Space, although I did spend a chunk of time on that today, but also for other projects. The Reading Kant’s Geography book is going … Continue reading →

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Graham Harman on Open Access Publishing

Some interesting thoughts here, based on his experience with The Speculative Turn, and Prince of Networks. Much of this is undoubtedly right, and I think there is a lot of potential for these kinds of publishing outlets. 4-5,000 downloads of … Continue reading →

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