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Political Geography seeks two new Associate Editors – details here.

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
A clutch of forthcoming books on war that seek, in different ways, to illuminate dimensions of what I’ve been calling ‘later modern war’: Antonia Chayes‘ Borderless Wars (due in August at an eye-popping price from…

When Heidegger met Lacan Foucault’s Heterotopia and Benjamin’s Arcade Project – a discussion by Peter Johnson Geography blogs – a list, and a discussion of ‘why blog?’ Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger – now … Continue reading →

Thanks to ‘Sig Laser’ for sending me details of an interesting site-specific production of Shakespeare’s Antony in Cleopatra. The production is “a story of occupation, set on the pre-confederation plains of Manitoba during the fur trade”. From the accounts in The Winnipeg Free Press comes this description … Continue reading →

Adrian Ivakhiv on Pope Francis’s Laudato Si, the Papal Encyclical “On Care for Our Common Home”. Some good discussion, and links to further reading.

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
A mid-length Palgrave Pivot book being released here. ‘Making a strong case for interdisciplinary layering as a way to represent the many layers – physical, social, aesthetic – of the city, Fraser’s visionary book is as much…

The audio of lectures given by John Rawls to students in his course “Philosophy 171: Modern Political Philosophy” are being made available on YouTube by the Harvard Philosophy Department. The lectures were delivered at Harvard in the spring semester of 1984. … Continue reading →

Verso – 90% off all e-books until midnight 18 June 2015 Update: extended to 19 June because of website problems.

G. F. W. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Art: The Hotho Transcript of the 1823 Berlin Lectures, is reviewed at NDPR.

Fascinating interview with Joseph Masco at the Society and Space open site.