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Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
As I understand it, this edition — edited by David Lapoujade — will be available 11/5. From Minuit’s website (my translation into English): Lettres et autres texts (Letters and other texts) is the third and…

Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini on the politics of human shielding – an open site supplement to an essay in Society and Space, open access for a limited time.

Eduardo Gudynas, David Harvey, Ecuador and ‘sympathetic colonialism’ – links to Spanish/English versions of both texts The challenge of saying ‘no’ to academic requests Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview from 1979 Eleven thoughts on reading and citing Two posts in … Continue reading →

Derek Gregory and Jeremy Crampton both link to the Drone Papers at the Intercept, a new set of leaked materials. Here’s the beginning of Jeremy Scahill’s introduction. Drones are a tool, not a policy. The policy is assassination. While every president since … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Eduardo Gudynas has recently criticised David Harvey and his research team in Ecuador for ‘simpatico [sympathetic, nice or friendly] colonialism’ (Spanish/English). The research team (Estefanía Martínez, Verónica Morales, Carla Simbaña, Japhy Wilson, Nora Fernández, Thomas…

GeoHumanities, the AAG’s new journal, is now online. Papers from the editors, Jeff Malpas, Michael Dear, Hayden Lorimer, Anja Kanngieser, Luiza Bialasiewicz & Lauren Wagner and others…

Politics and Animals – new journal launched with papers open access Politics and Animals: Editors’ Introduction The Political Turn in Animal Rights Tony Milligan The Meaning of the Great Ape Project Paola Cavalieri Politico-Moral Apathy and Omnivore’s Akrasia: Views from … Continue reading →

Thanos Zartaloudis – 14½ Truths Modestly Addressed to a Young Academic at Critical Legal Thinking. Lots of good advice here, much of which I wish I’d been told much earlier, much still to ponder…

Originally posted on multipliciudades:
Charles Waldheim presents his book Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory (Princeton University Press, forthcoming) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The talk includes an interesting discussion about the discursive constitution of disciplines. Waldheim draws…

Eduardo Gudynas has recently criticised David Harvey and his research team in Ecuador for ‘simpatico [sympathetic, nice or friendly] colonialism’ (Spanish/English). The research team (Estefanía Martínez, Verónica Morales, Carla Simbaña, Japhy Wilson, Nora Fernández, Thomas Purcell and Jeremy Rayner) respond (Spanish/English); … Continue reading →