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Verso 2014 – Selected highlights, from Arundhati Roy to Slavoj Žižek in a free Ebook

Verso 2014: Free Ebook Collection, edited by Verso Books Selected highlights, from Arundhati Roy to Slavoj Žižek We bring you a compilation of our most exciting reading from 2014, with contributions from leading radical names – brought together for the first … Continue reading

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Volume 32, Issue 6 now out

New issue of Society and Space out – lots of very interesting papers in here.

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Statements by UCU, VC, Staff, Amnesty International and petitions about Warwick events on December 3 2014 The 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2014 How much censorship has there been in Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe? Critical Theory gifts for Christmas Last lecture … Continue reading

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Saskia Sassen’s Father and Eichmann

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
An interesting and previously unknown story to me about the sociologist and urban theorist’s links, through her father, to Eichmann’s post-war life in Argentina. (She had left discussions of this out of her…

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Critical Theory gifts for Christmas

Some of these are inspired – Critical Theory gifts for Christmas (I think a few are recycled from last year, but no matter). Perhaps you want a Noam Chomsky candle, or a ‘Nietzsche drink koozy’…      

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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAPERS 57 /// Patterns of Life: A Very Short History of Schematic Bodies by Grégoire Chamayou

Originally posted on The Funambulist:
Pablo Picasso drawing with light / Photograph by Gjon Mili (1949) The second series of The Funambulist Papers continues around the topic of bodies. Today, I am glad and honored to welcome Grégoire Chamayou to this…

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Contested Political Spaces – report and recordings from a PAIS conference

Originally posted on Politics Reconsidered:
António Ferraz de Oliveira and Mara Duer reflect on the ‘Contested Political Spaces’ postgraduate conference held at Warwick University last week. Last Thursday and Friday, a few months of learning-as-you-go intensive teamwork coalesced into a successful…

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New Directions in International Political Economy Conference, Warwick, 13-15 May 2015

New Directions in International Political Economy Conference, Warwick, 13-15 May 2015 – Programme now available.

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The 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2014

A bit early for best-of-year lists, but apart from the first, this picks some different and interesting-sounding books.

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Rank Hypocrisies: The Insult of the REF (when I’m 64)

Originally posted on coasts of bohemia:
UPDATE.  There is a (much cheaper) Kindle edition of this book to come soon, but it is not currently listed on amazon or other sites. Seems oddly appropriate that I should be celebrating my 64th…

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