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Antipode Intervention on Lefebvre – “Towards a Metaphilosophy of the Urban” by Andy Merrifield

Antipode Intervention – “Towards a Metaphilosophy of the Urban” by Andy Merrifield. This piece discusses Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy, forthcoming in English translation with Verso. I suspect I’m not the only one thrilled by the prospect of seeing Henri Lefebvre’s great philosophical tract, Métaphilosophie, … Continue reading

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Video: David Harvey Interview: Life & Thought

Interview: Life & Thought 30 July 2015 ENFF, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Lau Kin Chi and Sit Tsui Jade interviewed David Harvey about his childhood, his studies, his work on Marx’s Capital, and his involvement in social movements. via Video: David Harvey … Continue reading

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How drones use algorithms to govern your life

Originally posted on Open Geography:
How do drones use computational methods such as algorithms to govern your life? Here are ten ways. Many people think (non-military) drones are only used by hobbyists, and then only to fly small Go-Pro cameras around.…

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Gudynas and Harvey et. al. debate on ‘friendly colonialism’ continues

Original exchanges here; now joined by two new pieces Eduardo Gudynas, ‘Friendly colonialism’ and the contradictions of our progressive governments Japhy Wilson, Estefanía Martínez, Thomas Purcell and Carla Simbaña, The Passive Aggression of Eduardo Gudynas: An Analysis CENEDET have also just published their … Continue reading

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Digital Map of the Roman Empire

An interesting digital map of the Roman Empire. Thanks to António Ferraz de Oliveria for the link.

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Interview with Thomas Nail about The Figure of the Migrant

Also at critical-theory.com, an interview with Thomas Nail about his recent book The Figure of the Migrant, published by Stanford University Press.

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11 Critical Theory books that came out in November

11 Critical Theory books that came out in November – another useful roundup at critical-theory.com. Butler, Evans, Goldsmith, Repo, Meiksins Wood, Badiou, Zaretsky, Zurn and Dilts, Negri, Llewelyn

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Radical Urbanism, The Right to the City

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkKXt6lTTD4 Peter Marcuse, Margit Mayer, Susan Fainstein, David Harvey, moderated by Neil Smith,

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Perec’s Geographies / Perecquian Geographies

Originally posted on Open Geography:
The unaccountably overlooked Georges Perec (member of Oulipo) and author of Espèces d’espaces (Species of Spaces) a great geographical fiction, is the subject of a symposium about his work. The cfp follows: PEREC’S GEOGRAPHIES /…

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“About the Concept of the ‘Dangerous Individual’ in Legal Psychiatry of the 19th Century” – details of variant English and French texts

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
A couple of months ago [update: in January 2014], I asked three minor questions concerning Foucault’s ‘About the Concept of the Dangerous Individual’ lecture in Toronto in 1977. is the version in Dits et écrits the original French,…

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