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Some Comments on David Krell’s Black Notebooks Review

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Thanks to Stuart Elden and Marie-Eve Morin for simultaneously sending me along the Research in Phenomenology review (my library for some odd reason–an odd reason [making sure that libraries get the…

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Top posts this week on Progressive Geographies

Terry Eagleton, The Slow Death of the University Jacques Derrida’s early essay on Shakespeare’s idea of Kingship – ‘Quite unintelligible’ Articles and Chapters Foucault’s Last Decade Mapping the Age of Every Building in Manhattan Where to start with reading Peter … Continue reading

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Association of American Geographers conference in Chicago – Ebola, Terrain and Lauren Berlant’s Society and Space lectures

You’ll have to get up early to see me present at the Association of American Geographers conference in Chicago next week. Both sessions are at 8am. 21 April 2015, “The Multiple Geographies of Ebola”, as part of a panel session on (Geo)politics … Continue reading

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David Farrell Krell on Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ – review essay and forthcoming book Ecstasy, Catastrophe

David Farrell Krell on Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ – long review essay in Research in Phenomenology and forthcoming book Ecstasy, Catastrophe: Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks. The essay draws on chapters from the book, itself based on the 2014 … Continue reading

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Dredging geopolitics: Moving dirt, silt and sand

Klaus Dodds on some developments in the South China sea.

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Civil(ian) wars in Yemen

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
It’s not easy to keep track of the intensifying civil war/proxy war in Yemen, but the New York Times has published a series of maps – including the one below – that sketch out some…

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“Prisons, Racism, Empire, Militarism” at AAG

Originally posted on Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life:
For those of us headed to AAG in Chicago next week, this mini-conference, “Prisons, Racism, Empire, Militarism,” organized by Lindsey Dillon, Javier Arbona, and Jenna Lloyd may be…

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Sur les Toits – trailer for film on French prisons in the early 1970s

This came out a couple of years ago, but is new to me – again Daniel Defert told me about this. In French, with English subtitles, directed by Nicolas Drolc. More details here. Début des années 70 : une série d’évènements … Continue reading

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Brendan Gleeson and Neil Brenner in conversation on the age of urbanization

Brendan Gleeson and Neil Brenner in conversation on the age of urbanization

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Books bought in Paris – Foucault, Duby, de Certeau, Farge

I’ve been in Paris the last few days, doing some work on the Foucault project. The two main things were some work at the Bibliothèque Nationale and meeting Daniel Defert to talk about Foucault’s work. I’ll say a bit more in … Continue reading

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