Category Archives: Publishing

On refusing unpaid work

I was recently asked to write an entry on a topic I’m very interested in, for another multi-volume Encyclopedia. I’ve written about my doubts about yet more of these ventures before here and here. This one wants a 4,500 word … Continue reading

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International Politics and Performance

This has got to be the quickest edited collection I’ve ever been involved in. Routledge have a publication date for October, and I only submitted my chapter (on political bodies in Coriolanus) in mid-March.

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The Funambulist Pamphlets

One of my favourite blogs, The Funambulist, teams up with one of the most interesting and challenging new publishing outlets, Punctum Books, to produce a series of little books on themes covered on the blog. The twelve first volumes are … Continue reading

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Writing for readers

Short comment piece in The Chronicle on writing, readers and changes to publishing. Thanks to Annick Wibben for the link.

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On writing books

Yesterday I reblogged Graham Harman’s post about his forthcoming Latour book Prince of Nodes (a sequel to Prince of Networks). In that post he reflects on how this means he is contracted to write three books simultaneously.  He suggests that … Continue reading

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Books received

Rosi Bradotti, The Posthuman; Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy (to review); Laurence Hemming’s Heidegger and Marx (which I endorsed); Neve Gordon’s Israel’s Occupation; the launch issue of Territory, Politics, Governance (which has an essay from me in it); … Continue reading

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Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality – e-book

Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality, an open-access e-book edited by Sven-Olov Wallenstein and Jakob Nilsson, with essays by Thomas Lemke, Johanna Oksala, Catherine Mills, Julian Reid, Lukasz Stanek, Helena Mattsson, Warren Neidich, Cecilia Sjoholm, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Adenna Mey. Foucault’s work on biopolitics and governmentality … Continue reading

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The AAG meeting

I’ve spent the last week in Los Angeles for the Association of American Geographers annual meeting. It was mainly in the Westin Bonaventure hotel – made famous in the 1980s by the readings of Fredric Jameson and Edward Soja. I … Continue reading

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Philosophy Activism Nature – call for papers on place

Philosophy Activism Nature 11 (June) 2014 will be themed on ‘Place’. Contributors are asked to curate an essay focused on one of the following: i) a personal response to a specific geographic site or situation ii) a dialogue with a … Continue reading

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Warwick/RIPE Debate 2013

Warwick/RIPE Debate 2013 From 2008 onwards, Warwick’s Politics and International Studies department (PAIS), in conjunction with the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE) has hosted an annual Warwick/RIPE debate in International Political Economy (IPE). The debates are the department’s flagship … Continue reading

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