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Streetlife symposium – University of Kent, 15 Sept 2015

Posted on behalf of Phil Hubbard – Streetlife symposium, University of Kent, 15 Sept 201 The street is a social space like no other. It has always been a key laboratory for studies of social life, from the roots of contemporary urban … Continue reading

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The Community You Have, The Community You Need: Building an Online Accountability Group

Originally posted on The Accidental Philologist:
(This is based on a presentation I gave to a working group on graduate student writing support at the university where I did my doctorate. Another blog post arising from the discussion was written…

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Chronicles from an eternal present. A review of “Critiquer Foucault”, edited by Daniel Zamora

Chronicles from an eternal present. A review of “Critiquer Foucault”, edited by Daniel Zamora – part I, part II.

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The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas

The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas – new collection from Duke University Press. Includes essays by Sandro Mezzadra, Walter  D. Mignolo, Benjamin Noys and others. The contributors to The Anomie of the Earth explore the convergences and resonances between Autonomist … Continue reading

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Reviews of Foucault’s first three Collège de France courses, and other pieces at Berfrois

The piece I published yesterday was on Foucault’s second lecture course at the Collège de France. I have also published reviews of the first and third, which form an initial triptych on the linked themes of measure, inquiry and examination. … Continue reading

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Thinking Spatial Practices with & against law – Birkbeck, 19 June 2015

Thinking Spatial Practices with & against law An Interdisciplinary Workshop Funded by: Birkbeck Institute for Social Research Birkbeck School of Law, University of London, 19th June 2015 Birkbeck College, Malet Street│Room 414 Across various disciplines, a resurgent interest in questions of spatial justice is prompted by … Continue reading

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Notes toward a critical history of cartography, part 1

Originally posted on Open Geography:
In the past few months I’ve agreed to develop a course called “A Critical History of Cartography” for our department’s new Masters and Certificate in Digital Mapping. This initiative, which we call New Maps Plus, will…

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General bibliography on open-plan office design (2015)

Originally posted on Refracted Input:
Still from Jacques Tati’s film Playtime (1967) I have put together a general – but still very select – bibliography of material on open-plan office design, which you can download as a PDF. All items…

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Two Uses of Michel Foucault in Political Theory: Concepts and Methods in Giorgio Agamben and Ian Hacking (2015)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Colin Koopman, ‘Two Uses of Michel Foucault in Political Theory: Concepts and Methods in Giorgio Agamben and Ian Hacking’, Constellations (1), 0 Article first published online: 19 MAY 2015 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8675.12153 First paragraph in lieu…

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“Exercises in the History of Ideas”: An Interview with Stuart Elden by Dale Leorke and Suneel Jethani at the Theory, Culture and Society website

“Exercises in the History of Ideas”: An Interview with Stuart Elden by Dale Leorke and Suneel Jethani at the Theory, Culture and Society website – open access. This is an edited version of an interview conducted last year in Melbourne … Continue reading

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