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J.R.R. Tolkien’s manuscript map of Rohan, Gondor, and Mordor

Posted on October 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
From the forthcoming The Art of the Lord of the Rings, which collects Tolkiens’s preparatory drawings for his epic. Via/more at Wired.

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Foucault 13/13 Seminar 3 (2015) livestream

Posted on October 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Livestream of Seminar 3 of Foucault 13/13 This will also be available as a recording after the event October 12, 2015, 6:15pm Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton) and EHESS Axel Honneth, University of…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on October 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview from 1979 The challenge of saying ‘no’ to academic requests Eleven thoughts on reading and citing Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? – updates to the reading guide: Metaphilosophy, Marxist Thought and the … Continue reading →

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Nick Vaughan-Williams, Europe’s Border Crisis: Biopolitical Security and Beyond – forthcoming from Oxford University Press

Posted on October 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Nick Vaughan-Williams, Europe’s Border Crisis: Biopolitical Security and Beyond – forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Europe’s Border Crisis investigates dynamics in EU border security and migration management and advances a path-breaking framework for thought, judgment, and action in…

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Ai Weiwei exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London

Posted on October 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Yesterday evening I went to a talk at the Royal Academy of Arts, London on the Ai Weiwei exhibition they have there for the next few months. This was a special event for bloggers and instagrammers, as opposed to more … Continue reading →

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Richard Sennett, ‘A New Charter of Athens’, lecture at Cambridge University, 10 November 2015

Posted on October 7, 2015 by stuartelden

A NEW CHARTER OF ATHENS, by RICHARD SENNETT, 10 NOVEMBER, 5:30 PM Sir Arthur Marshall Lecture, hosted by the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge where Professor Sennett is Sir Arthur Marshall Visiting Professor in Urban Design. The lecture will … Continue reading →

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The geopolitics of international humanitarian law and the kunduz hospital bombing

Posted on October 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on placinglaw:
Reports are suggesting that on 3rd October a US AC130 gunship fired on an Afghan hospital in the city of Kunduz, killing 12 staff members and 10 patients and wounding many more (while the precise figures…

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The Topographical Imagination of Jameson, Baudrillard, and Foucault (2015)

Posted on October 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michael James Rizza The Topographical Imagination of Jameson, Baudrillard, and Foucault, Noesis/The Davies Group, 2015 Notice on author’s blog An interview with the author, Michael James Rizza, in Hyperrhiz 12 This in-depth discussion of several…

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Deleuze and Foucault’s Political Philosophy Conference

Posted on October 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
At Purdue, November 13-14, 2015. The program is here. I’m not sure how I missed earlier announcements about this, but I’m going to do everything I can to get there.

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Cahiers marxistes-léninistes

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
Selections from the journal (published by Althusser’s students) are available here. (Thanks to Rethinking Marxism‘s Facebook feed for the link)

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