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Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJFi2tFNNUM

Hélène Blais’ Mirages de la carte reviewed at the Society and Space open site.

Wendy Brown, David Held, Claire Colebrook, Elizabeth Ferris keynote lectures live-streamed from Durham conference on Human migration and the environment: futures, politics, invention. Durham University – 29 June – 1 July 2015. Conference keynote lectures live-streamed on YouTube: http://www.durhamconference.eu/keynotes/ Professor David Held – … Continue reading →

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…