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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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Back in Paris at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Caen tomorrow for the Foucault work

Back in Paris at the Bibliothèque Nationale today. A few hours going through another box of Foucault’s manuscripts at the Richelieu site, then over to the François Mitterrand site to go through some newsletters and pamphlets relating to his activism. … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

“Mourning becomes the law”—Judith Butler from Paris at the Verso website (warning: Verso’s page for this has disappeared) Latour on Paris Attacks Before and after peer-review in a diagram Foucault’s Last Decade – available to preorder Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview … Continue reading →

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Occupy: A People Yet To Come (after Deleuze & Guatarri)

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
http://openhumanitiespress.org/Conio-2015_Occupy-A-People-Yet-To-Come.pdf “The term Occupy represents a belief in the transformation of the capitalist system through a new heterogenic world of protest and activism that cannot be conceived in terms of liberal democracy, parliamentary systems, class…

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Isabelle Stengers’ new book available open access

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
Isabelle Stengers’ new book, In Catastrophic Times, is available for free as a .pdf download at this site. Here is a description of the book (which you can also buy in hard copy as…

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Andy Merrifield: Europe’s New Urban Question

Andy Merrifield: Europe’s New Urban Question – lecture at University of Kentucky.

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Books received – Recherches, Foucault, Fourquet, Shakespeare, Vasudevan, Whatmore

A pile of recent books bought or received. Alex Vasudevan’s Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin was sent by him; and Richard Whatmore, What is Intellectual History? came from Polity – preordered in recompense for review work. Both look really interesting. … Continue reading →

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