Category Archives: Politics

Posters and further details for UNSW lecture and workshop

10 March, 4pm, “Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics”, School of Humanities and Languages, John Goodsell 221/223, University of New South Wales (website; poster) 11 March, 10-4pm, “Geopolitics, Geopower, Geometrics”, workshop, Room 101 LAW Building, University of New South Wales (website; poster).

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Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone – A Verso instant book

Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone – A Verso instant book, available online at a reduced price. On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance – not just for Greece … Continue reading

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Contesting the Arctic: Rethinking Politics in the Circumpolar North by Philip E. Steinberg, Jeremy Tasch, Hannes Gerhardt

Contesting the Arctic: Rethinking Politics in the Circumpolar North by Philip E. Steinberg, Jeremy Tasch and Hannes Gerhardt has been published by I.B. Tauris. As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty … Continue reading

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Heidegger and the Global Age – conference at Sussex, 29-30 Oct 2015

Heidegger and the Global Age, 29-30 October 2015 at the Centre for Advanced International Theory, University of Sussex, in Brighton, UK Full details on their website – keynotes include Joanna Hodge, Laurence Hemming, Fred Dallmayr and Peg Birmingham.

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Frantz Fanon: Concerning the Psychoanalysis and Cosmopolitanism of Violence – Warwick, 17 March 2015

Frantz Fanon: Concerning the Psychoanalysis and Cosmopolitanism of Violence 18th March 2015, 1pm to 7pm University of Warwick (A0.28, Millburn House) Frantz Fanon, the son of Martinique who first fought for colonial France in World War Two and then against … Continue reading

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Terrain, Volume, Drones – abstract for my keynote to Power and Space in the Drone Age conference

Update: unfortunately I’ve had to withdraw from this event. Here’s the abstract for my keynote lecture to the Power and Space in the Drone Age conference, 27-28 August 2015, Université de Neuchâtel: Terrain, Volume, Drones This paper is part of a wider, … Continue reading

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Poster for University of Sydney talk on “Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality”

I posted details of all my talks in Sydney over the next few weeks yesterday. A very nice poster for the University of Sydney talk has just been produced.

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Talks in Sydney on Foucault, Territory, Shakespeare and Geopolitics in February and March

I’ll be talking about and discussing aspects of most of my current and recent work in Sydney in late February and mid-March. 26 February, 4pm, “Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality”, Darlington Centre Boardroom, Department of Political Economy/Centre for International Security … Continue reading

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Interview with Patricia Owens at E-IR

Interesting interview with Patricia Owens – author of  Between War and Politics: International Relations and the Thought of Hannah Arendt – at E-IR. Here’s one especially good part: Where do you see the most exciting research/debates happening in IR at the moment? … Continue reading

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Alberto Toscano, The Intolerable-Inquiry: The Documents of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons

This isn’t new, but I’d not seen this 2013 piece before – Alberto Toscano’s review of “The Intolerable-Inquiry: The Documents of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons” in Viewpoint. We are for­tu­nate to now have in a French edi­tion a … Continue reading

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