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What We Talked About At ISA: Weaponising Geography and the Global Striations of Military Targeting

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
In the context of a panel I put together on “Turning Ploughshares into Swords: Weapons and Weaponizations”, the ISA’s annual conference was the occasion for me to present some of the research I…

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Foucault and Neoliberalism Today (2015)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Mark G. E. Kelly, Foucault and Neoliberalism Today, Contriver’s Review, March 2015 Late last year, a PhD student in Belgium, Daniel Zamora, published a smallish edited collection of essays in French called “Criticising Foucault” (Critiquer…

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Contesting the Arctic now published

I’m delighted to announce that Contesting the Arctic: Politics and Imaginaries in the Circumpolar North is now published. The book was something of a writing experiment for myself and co-authors. Contesting the Arctic not only seeks to understand the Arctic…

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New Series at Edinburgh: New Perspectives in Ontology

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
My colleague Sean McGrath and I have started up a series with Edinburgh UP, ‘New Perspectives in Ontology’. Our board is now just about in place, including Maurizio Farraris (Turin), Iain Hamilton Grant (University…

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Inaugural Lecture of Laleh Khalili: Sinews of War and Trade – SOAS, University of London, 11 March 2015

Inaugural Lecture of Laleh Khalili: Sinews of War and Trade – SOAS, University of London, 11 March 2015.

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‘Charlie Hebdo’ and the Politics of Response – A Forum

A forum at Society and Space on the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ attacks and responses to them, based on contributions to a workshop at Durham University.

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Top posts this week on Progressive Geographies

Judy! – the 1993 Judith Butler fanzine available online Foucault – uncollected notes, lectures and interviews Simeon Wade (ed.) Chez Foucault – the 1978 fanzine with a 1976 interview with Foucault Foucault and the History of Our Present (2015) Textures … Continue reading

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Progressive Geographies – Frequently Asked Questions

I’ve added a page of Frequently Asked Questions to this site as a subpage to About.

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Textures of the Anthropocene: New four-volume set from MIT Press

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
Details of a new set of works on the Anthropocene are here. This is a description from the MIT Press site: We have entered the Anthropocene era—a geological age of our own making, in…

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iBorder, Borderscapes, Bordering: A Conversation – Chiara Brambilla and Holger Pötzsch

A discussion extending the work of a recent article in Society and Space – open access for a month alongside this open site piece.

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