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Verena Erlenbusch, Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire forthcoming with Columbia UP

Verena Erlenbusch, Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire forthcoming with Columbia University Press in 2018. What is terrorism? What ought we to do about it? And why is it wrong? We think we have clear answers to these questions. … Continue reading

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7 Critical Theory books that came out in November 2017 – Negri, Wheeler-Reed, Soussloff, Strauss, Adorno, Sullivan, Zigon

As ever, a useful roundup from critical theory  

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LSE Writing for Research – page of links to advice posts

I’ve linked to some of these before, but the LSE has now put together a page of links to their advice posts – Writing for Research. There are lots more links and some discussions archived here.

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Figure/Ground interview with Leonard Lawlor

Figure/Ground interview with Leonard Lawlor Leonard Lawlor is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Continental philosophy. He received his doctorate from SUNY Stony Brook in 1988 and taught at the University of Memphis from 1989–2008, where he held the position … Continue reading

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The Intimate Life of Violence: Brad Evans interviews Elaine Scarry at LARB

The Intimate Life of Violence: Brad Evans interviews Elaine Scarry at Los Angeles Review of Books. This the 16th in a series of dialogues with artists, writers, and critical thinkers on the question of violence. This conversation is with the … Continue reading

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The Browser talks to Will Davies (podcast)

Robert Cottrell talks to Will Davies about blogging, writing, sociology and social media on The Browser – podcast.

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Edward S. Casey, The World on Edge reviewed at NDPR by Fred Evans

Edward S. Casey, The World on Edge is reviewed at NDPR by Fred Evans. I’d missed this book when it came out earlier this year, but looks like another important study by Casey. Here’s the press description of the book: From … Continue reading

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Latest book reviews, December 2017

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
The end of 2017 is nigh, so it’s time to look back at the book reviews we’ve published in the last quarter… There are some timely essays in this latest batch, which starts with Jim…

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Caren Kaplan, Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above – forthcoming in January and open access introduction

Caren Kaplan, Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above – forthcoming in January from Duke University Press. You can read the introduction here. From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations … Continue reading

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Todd Mei – Exploring an economic turn in phenomenology: Land as hypokeimenon (audio)

Todd Mei – Exploring an economic turn in phenomenology: Land as hypokeimenon (audio) – Kingston University, 23 November 2017 In this lecture Todd Mei will expand upon an argument in his recent (2017) book, Land and the Given Economy: The … Continue reading

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