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Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History, edited by Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos and Natasha Wheatley – University of Chicago Press, December 2020

Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History, edited by Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos and Natasha Wheatley – University of Chicago Press, December 2020 Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than … Continue reading

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Architecture in Global Socialism by Łukasz Stanek reviewed in The Guardian by Owen Hatherley

Architecture in Global Socialism by Łukasz Stanek (Princeton University Press) reviewed in The Guardian by Owen Hatherley – “a book that rewrites the cold war” This is one of those books that turns a discipline upside down – the cold … Continue reading

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Books received – Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, Althusser, Nicolaysen, Heidegger, Foucault, TCS, Lefebvre, Scammell, Avellaneda and Vega

A mixed pile of books to come back to in the office. They include – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, L’union de l’âme et du corps chez Malebranche, Biran et Bergson – a course Foucault attended Jacques Lacan, My Teaching Two recent translations of … Continue reading

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Marcelo Hoffman, Militant Acts: The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles – SUNY Press, Jan 2019

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Marcelo Hoffman, Militant Acts: The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles – SUNY Press, January 2019 Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward. Militant…

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A roundtable on Martina Tazzioli’s book The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders – University of Warwick, 15 January 2020

The making of migration: A roundtable on Martina Tazzioli’s book The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders (Sage, 2019) With Stuart Elden (PAIS, Warwick), Daniele Lorenzini (Philosophy, Warwick), Vicki Squire (PAIS, Warwick), Maurice Stierl (PAIS, Warwick) and … Continue reading

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New Perspectives – 03/2019 – Full Issue open access – and journal moving to Sage in 2020

New Perspectives – 03/2019 – Full Issue open access Benjamin Tallis announces that the journal will be moving to Sage in 2020 Editorial 1. The Velvet Revolution Happened Yesterday Alena Drieschová Research Articles 2. Brexit and EU Legitimation: Unwitting Martyr … Continue reading

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Foucault à l’épreuve de la psychiatrie et de la psychanalyse, Astérion (ENS de Lyon), 21/2019

Foucault à l’épreuve de la psychiatrie et de la psychanalyse, Astérion (ENS de Lyon), 21/2019 – thanks to Foucault News for this link Challenging Foucault with psychiatry and psychoanalysis Sous la direction de Laurent Dartigues et Elisabetta Basso Open access … Continue reading

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London Review of Books – new website and open access until 15 January 2020

The London Review of Books has a new website and content is open access for one month: For a full calendar month, there won’t be a paywall of any kind anywhere on the site. This means that not only all 24 of this … Continue reading

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Jonathan Basile on  Derrida’s Seminars: Writing Before Writing Before the Letter in 3:AM Magazine

Jonathan Basile writes about at Derrida’s Seminars: Writing Before Writing Before the Letter in 3:AM Magazine. Thanks to Peter Gratton at Philosophy in a Time of Error for the link.  

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Response to the Danny Dorling article by Alison Blunt, Martin Evans and others

In November, Danny Dorling published a piece in Emotion, Space and Society entitled ‘Kindness: A new kind of rigour for British Geographers‘ (open access), which was picked up by The Times Higher Education – “Geography seen as ‘soft option’ by ‘posh’ students, … Continue reading

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