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Intellectual History’s Grounds: A Conversation with Martin Jay

Intellectual History’s Grounds: A Conversation with Martin Jay at the JHI blog

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Navigating the Academic World: A Professional Development Workshop in Urban Studies – Brussels, 28-29 March 2019

Navigating the Academic World: A Professional Development Workshop in Urban Studies  28-29 March 2019 Graduate School for Urban Research Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, VUB Brussels, Belgium We are excited to announce that the Brussels Graduate School for Urban Research … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Wall: A Q&A With Wendy Brown in The Nation

Beyond the Wall: A Q&A With Wendy Brown in The Nation – connecting the ideas of her 2010 book Walled States, Waning Sovereignty to the current political situation. Thanks to dmf for this link.

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Gary Gutting (1942-2019)

I’m sorry to hear the news of the death of Gary Gutting (on Daily Nous). Gutting was someone whose work I’ve known for a long time – Michel Foucault’s Archaeology of Scientific Reason was an early book on Foucault I read, in … Continue reading →

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Kathryn Medien, ‘Palestine in Deleuze’ – Theory, Culture & Society, online first

Kathryn Medien, ‘Palestine in Deleuze‘ – Theory, Culture & Society, online first (requires subscription) In the late 1970s and early 1980s French philosopher Gilles Deleuze authored a series of articles in which he reflected on the formation of the state … Continue reading →

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David Beer, Georg Simmel’s Concluding Thoughts: Worlds, Lives, Fragments – Palgrave June 2019

David Beer, Georg Simmel’s Concluding Thoughts: Worlds, Lives, Fragments – Palgrave June 2019 This book draws upon the work of Georg Simmel to explore the limits, tensions and dynamism of social life through a close analysis of the works produced … Continue reading →

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Neil Brenner, New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question – OUP, June 2019

Neil Brenner, New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question – OUP, June 2019 The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are crystallizing. … Continue reading →

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Review Michel Foucault va au cinéma / Foucault at the Movies (2019)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Sforzini, A. (2019). Michel Foucault va au cinéma / Foucault at the Movies. Le Foucaldien, 5(1), 1. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.56 Abstract This article reviews the book Foucault at the Movies, published in French in 2011 and translated into English…

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The Eye of War: A Symposium

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
Over the coming week, The Disorder of Things will host a symposium on Antoine Bousquet’s new book The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone, published last year by University of…

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Richard Polt, Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties – Rowman & Littlefield, March 2019

Richard Polt, Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties – Rowman & Littlefield, March 2019 In this important new book, Richard Polt takes a fresh approach to Heidegger’s thought during his most politicized period, and works toward a … Continue reading →

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