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Tareq A. Ramadan on ‘ISIL, Coins, and the Caliphate’

A fascinating guest post at Juan Cole’s ever-interesting Informed Comment on “ISIL, Coins, and the Caliphate”. It has been recently reported by Daesh (what most Arabs call the self-styled “Islamic State Group” or IS) that it will be producing and … Continue reading

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George Monbiot on land ownership in Britain

Interesting piece by George Monbiot on land ownership in The Guardian, but fully referenced on his website.

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Last lecture of the semester: Foucault and Derrida on Madness

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Tonight. Below I go over the debate between Foucault and Derrida after a whole semester in which I taught their texts on crime and punishment, but not this particular debate. It’s…

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The Politics of the UK HE Marking Boycott, Part III

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
A brief update. As anticipated in Part II, UCU’s higher education committee voted to suspend the industrial action over pensions until 15 January and enter into negotiations with employers, despite opposition from UCU…

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Eyal Weizman interview, film screening, Society and Space lecture and review of Forensis forthcoming

A new interview with Eyal Weizman ahead of a film screening in London.

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Graham Scambler on Roy Bhaskar (1944-2014)

Graham Scambler has a good discussion of the work of Roy Bhaskar, who died recently.

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Vingt ans et après. Suivi de Letzlove, l’anagramme d’une rencontre (2014)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Th. Voeltzel, M. Foucault, Vingt ans et après. Suivi de Letzlove, l’anagramme d’une rencontre DATE DE PARUTION : 09/10/14 EDITEUR : Verticales ISBN : 978-2-07-014665-9 EAN : 9782070146659 PRÉSENTATION : Broché NB. DE PAGES :…

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The legal, the material, and the geophysical: a few reflections on the Warwick postgraduate political geography conference

Rachael Squire discusses the Warwick workshop held last week. We’re hoping to post the audio recording of Alex Jeffrey’s talk and the closing roundtable on the department blog later this week.

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

The Structure of Hegel’s Logic – in visual form Foucault’s Last Decade Forthcoming (updated, with some more preprints) Alison Ross, Walter Benjamin’s Concept of the Image Urban Revolution Now: Henri Lefebvre in Social Research and Architecture – now published Graham Burchell … Continue reading

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11 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in November

Critical-Theory has a list of eleven interesting books that came out in November.

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