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‘Nobody Needs French Theory’ – an extract from Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance

Originally posted on Edinburgh University Press Blog:
Continental Drift An interview between Jean Baudrillard and Deborah Solomon (DS)   DS As one of France’s most celebrated philosophers, can you give us any insight into the civil discontent that is pitting…

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‘Neoliberalism’ and ‘Capitalism’ – what’s the difference?

Originally posted on jeremygilbertwriting:
I wrote this in response to a discussion  of this theme on the NEON list. Thinking it was both too long for an email list and might be a useful resource for some people, I posted…

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Catherine Malabou’s Metamorphoses of Intelligence

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npd5sYLuZAM thanks to Michelle Maasz for sharing these. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLWhimo7y0s

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“Reconfiguring Global Space: The Geography, Politics, and Ethics of Drone Warfare” Live Stream

Originally posted on Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life:
For folks who are unable to be in Bloomington, “Reconfiguring Global Space: The Geography, Politics, and Ethics of Drone Warfare” will be live streaming presentations beginning today at…

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Margaret Moore, A Political Theory of Territory, reviewed by Tamar Meisels at NDPR.

The book I mentioned last week, Margaret Moore, A Political Theory of Territory, is reviewed by Tamar Meisels at NDPR. I’ve yet to read Moore’s book, but it seems striking from the review that the work is conducted as an internal debate … Continue reading

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Draft Translation of Fourquet and Murard’s “La Ville-Ordinateur”

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
As I mentioned last week, this is the essay that kicked off Recherches 13 (1973) and is the context for the two conversations involving Deleuze, Guattari, Foucualt, and Fourquet that are published as texts 129…

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Sanjay Chaturvedi, Timothy Doyle – Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change

Sanjay Chaturvedi, Timothy Doyle, Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change, recently out with Palgrave. Climate Terror investigates the highly differentiated geographical politics of global warming. It explores how fear-inducing climate change discourses could result in new forms of dependencies, domination and militarized … Continue reading

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

“Let UK universities do what they do best – teaching and research” – Letter from 121 professors in The Guardian David Harvey, Wendy Brown, Étienne Balibar discuss neoliberalism, capitalism and Marx Jeffrey Jerome Cohen on ‘Creativity, Routine, Writing Lockdowns, and the Necessity … Continue reading

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Two Summer Schools about Geopolitics at Maastricht University

Two Summer Schools about Geopolitics at Maastricht University organised by Leonhardt van Efferink: 3 – 7 August 2015 – Geopolitical Analysis 1: Rethinking Nation-States, National Security and Global Power 10 – 14 August 2015 Geopolitical Analysis 2: Exploring Geopolitics, Geoeconomics … Continue reading

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Universities and space

Originally posted on Refracted Input:
An example of the kind of building which is currently being constructed by universities in Australia. Interestingly, in this rendering, nobody actually seems to be doing any real work. And unless I missed it, there…

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