Category Archives: Publishing

French Theory today

I linked to the audio of these some time back, but Alexander Galloway’s lectures on French Theory today are now available as pdf pamphlets, with commentaries. The lectures cover Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Quentin Meillassoux, and François … Continue reading

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Harvard memo on journal pricing

This has been posted on a few places, i.e. New APPS. The Harvard Faculty Advisory Council memorandum on journal pricing makes for very interesting reading. [Update – The Guardian reports on it here]. Last two paragraphs and options: The Faculty Advisory … Continue reading

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Antipode Foundation Regional Workshop Awards

The Regional Workshop Awards are intended to support radical geographers holding regionally-based events (including conferences, workshops, seminar series, summer schools and action research meetings) which further radical analyses of geographical issues and engender the development of a new and better … Continue reading

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Security Dialogue new issue

Full details here – papers by Maja Zehfuss, Ben Anderson, Peter Adey and others. Themes include preemption, emergency, photography and the human terrain system.

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Politics of Place

New postgraduate journal – Politics of Place is a peer-reviewed journal for postgraduates. It publishes exceptional research focusing on the relationship between culture and spatiality in works of literature, engaging particularly with issues of nationhood, community, class, marginality, and the … Continue reading

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Palgrave Pivot

Palgrave Macmillan is delighted to announce a new imprint: Palgrave Pivot. Launching globally in Autumn 2012 and publishing across the Humanities and Social Sciences, Palgrave Pivot liberates scholarship from the straitjacket of traditional formats and business models. It offers authors … Continue reading

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review of New Geographies 4: Scales of the Earth

Nice review of this project, here – New Geographies, a publication series initiated and edited by six doctoral candidates at the Harvard Graduate School of Design… Distancing itself from conventional positions and professional boundaries, the journal collects critical essays and … Continue reading

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What is an author?

Clare O’Farrell reflects on the question of multiple authorship in The Australian. BY the late 1960s, French theorists Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault had pronounced the author to be, if not dead, then decidedly fragile. Authorship is perhaps one of … Continue reading

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Historical Materialism books to review

Long list of books, in multiple languages, for review in Historical Materialism here.

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25 years of Actuel Marx

An anniversary compilation of some of the best papers from Actuel Marx – details here. This is a journal that has been welcoming to my work – a piece here on Lefebvre’s posthumous reception, which later appeared in English in … Continue reading

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