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Mark Blyth, ‘A Pain in the Athens: Why Greece isn’t to Blame for the Crisis’ in Foreign Affairs

Mark Blyth, ‘A Pain in the Athens: Why Greece isn’t to Blame for the Crisis‘ in Foreign Affairs.

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Todd May reviews Balibar’s Violence and Civility

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
At NDPR here. Having not read this yet, this looks like a great text to work through the next time I teach a course on violence. Here, May goes through Balibar’s…

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New open access book reviews

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
We’ve published some great book reviews on AntipodeFoundation.org recently, including… Christopher Taylor (University of Chicago) on Martha Schoolman’s Abolitionist Geographies; Ian Shaw (University of Glasgow) on Grégoire Chamayou’s Drone Theory and Adam Rothstein’s Drone; Karen McCallum…

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David Harvey, Wendy Brown, Étienne Balibar discuss neoliberalism, capitalism and Marx

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/archive/audio/2015_07_03/2015_07_03_London_Critical_Theory_Summer_School_2015_Friday_Debate_I_speakers.mp3 Q&A @ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2015/07/london-critical-theory-summer-school-2015-friday-debate-i/

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William Cronon lecture at the British Academy tomorrow – 7 July 2015, 6pm

William Cronon British Academy lecture, Royal Geographical Society, London, 7 July 2015 – ‘ Who reads Geography or History anymore?‘ I was looking forward to this, but now have a conflicting appointment.

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The Spatial History: Maksakov on Yampolsky

A review of an intriguing Russian book, at the Society and Space open site.

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Draft entry for a Michel Serres Dictionary: Le Système de Leibniz et ses modèles mathématiques (1968)

Originally posted on Christopher Watkin:
Le Système de Leibniz was published during the heady anni mirabiles of late 1960s French thought. It appeared in 1968, the same year as Roland Barthes’s short essay ‘The Death of the Author’, one year after…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Critical Theory’s eight books that came out in June 2015 New book from Anna Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins Thomas Nail, The Figure of the Migrant – forthcoming from Stanford … Continue reading

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Leverhulme Trust Network on Project on Indeterminate and Changing Environments: Law, the Anthropocene, and the World (the ICE LAW Project)

Phil Steinberg has the good news that the Leverhulme Trust has funded the Project on Indeterminate and Changing Environments: Law, the Anthropocene, and the World (the ICE LAW Project). I’ll be leading the subproject on territory. Congratulations to Phil and Kate … Continue reading

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Thomas Nail, The Figure of the Migrant – forthcoming from Stanford University Press

Thomas Nail, The Figure of the Migrant – forthcoming from Stanford University Press. I provide one of the endorsements. The book is due out in September. In the meantime, a short interview on migrant politics related to the themes of the … Continue reading

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