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Territory — Rene Magritte

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
How did I not know there was a painting by Magritte called ‘Le territoire’ until now? Biblioklept View original post

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Foucault Circle meeting at UNSW June 29-July 2, 2016 – call for papers

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The sixteenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle will be held in Sydney, Australia, June 29-July 2, 2016 (hosted by the University of New South Wales). The Foucault Circle at UNSW will be held immediately before…

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René Girard – tribute from the Stanford news service

The theorist and historian René Girard died yesterday. There is a good obituary which discusses his important work at the Stanford news service. Thanks to Robert Tally for the first alert to this story. Update: also a brief piece at the Stanford … Continue reading

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Is Reviewer Fatigue a Real Thing?

Some interesting discussion of why people decline review requests, based on data from American Political Science Review.

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8 Critical Theory books that came out in October – Golder, Adorno and Lenk, Nealon, King, Withers, Coombs, Barthes, Holub

Critical-theory.com rounds up some recently published books – Golder, Adorno and Lenk, Nealon, King, Withers, Coombs, Barthes and Holub.

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Barry Stocker on Foucault’s Théories et institutions pénales lecture course

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Barry Stocker has been making a series of posts on Foucault’s Théories et institutions pénales lecture course, which appeared earlier this year – an English translation is likely to be a couple of years away,…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

A quiet week on the blog – working on proofs of an article and book, writing a lecture, planning some other ones, so mainly concentrating on those things… How to give a conference paper – some excellent advice to read … Continue reading

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University College London’s Institute of Advanced Studies – visiting fellow scheme, deadline 31 October 2015

As I’ve said here before, for the 2015-16 academic year I am a Senior Research Fellow at University College London’s new Institute of Advanced Studies. As a reminder, the deadline for the first round of applications to have a post here, as a visiting … Continue reading

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Deleuze, a Split with Foucault (2015)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Mathias Schönher, Deleuze, a Split with Foucault, Foucault Blog, October 17, 2015 DOI: 10.13095/uzh.fsw.fb.117) Keywords: deleuze | dispositif | philosophy | power | resistance | revolution | society | television INTRODUCTION There was a point in…

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Harriet Bulkeley, Accomplishing Climate Governance – now out with Cambridge UP

Harriet Bulkeley, Accomplishing Climate Governance – now out with Cambridge University Press. This book provides a new approach to thinking about the politics and geographies of climate governance. It argues that in order to understand the nature and potential of … Continue reading

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