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Interview with Sara Fregonese on War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon at New Texts Out Now Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Sara Fregonese (SF): This book is the result of my doctoral research (2004-2008), to which … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Rosemary-Claire Collard, Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade – Duke University Press, September 2020. The Introduction is open access here. Update: there is a discussion on the New Books podcast here. Parrots and…

Originally posted on Foucault News:
The Telos Press Podcast: Mark G. E. Kelly on Michel Foucault and the Politics of Language Today, December 1, 2020 In today’s episode of the Telos Press Podcast, Camelia Raghinaru talks with Mark G. E.…

Lars Spuybroek, Grace and Gravity: Architectures of the Figure – Bloomsbury, November 2020 How do we live well? The first sentence of Grace and Gravity raises the fundamental question that constantly occupies our minds-and of all those who lived before us. … Continue reading →

A reminder that on my blog I share a lot of my work. There are separate pages for articles and chapters, some books, interviews, audio and video, and reading lists. Some pre-prints of forthcoming pieces are here. Also see Google Books; and Durham Research Online and Warwick Research Access Portal (WRAP) which have preprints … Continue reading →

Coils of the Serpent has a special issue on Deleuze’s essay on Control Societies. All papers are open access. Papers from Jason Read, Patricia Ticinto Clough, Benjamin Noys and others. Coils of the Serpent is a scholarly journal dedicated to the … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Paulina Ochoa Espejo, On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place – Oxford University Press, August 2020 When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think…

Peter Salmon’s Top 10 books about great thinkers in The Guardian Books about St Augustine, Wittgenstein, André and Simone Weil, Kant, Simone de Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon, Georges Perec, Existentialists, Angela Davis, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Salmon’s own An Event, Perhaps: A … Continue reading →

Originally posted on The Philosophy of Movement:
https://progressivegeographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/nail_cover1.2_whitealt1-1.jpg We need a new philosophy of the earth. Geological time used to refer to slow and gradual processes, but today we are watching land sink into the sea and forests transform into…