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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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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// Bodies on the Targetting Line: Trying to Make Sense of Human Shields

Originally posted on The Funambulist:
Rachel Corrie confronting a Israeli army bulldozer before being killed by it (March 13, 2003) A few months ago, I learned that Judith Butler was going to give a lecture at the London School of Economics and…

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Georgina Born, “Anthropology, Digital Music and the Contemporary”, British Academy lecture, 19 May 2015

Georgina Born, Radcliffe-Brown lecture in Anthropology, British Academy, 19 May 2015, 6pm

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The Function of Criticism at the Present Time – on the work of Lauren Berlant

Interesting piece in the LA Review of Books, “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time“, which looks at the work of Lauren Berlant. Berlant will be giving the Society and Space lecture at the Association of American Geographers meeting … Continue reading →

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Kelly Oliver, Earth and World: Philosophy after the Apollo Missions

Kelly Oliver, Earth and World: Philosophy after the Apollo Missions – thanks to John Protevi for the link. Critically engaging the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida together with her own observations on contemporary politics, … Continue reading →

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Top posts this week on Progressive Geographies

Terry Eagleton, The Slow Death of the University Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy – forthcoming in 2016 from Verso with introduction by Stuart Elden Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution Heidegger, National Socialism and the editing of the Gesamtausgabe Call … Continue reading →

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Forgiving Foucault and Defining Neoliberalism

Originally posted on sanshistory:
“Economics is therefore not the analysis of processes; it is the analysis of an activity. So it is no longer the analysis of the historical logic of processes; it is the analysis of internal rationality, the…

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