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Originally posted on Installing (Social) Order:
In a fascinating, apparently not-peer-reviewed non-article available free online here, Tommaso Venturini and Bruno Latour discuss the potential of “digital methods” for the contemporary social sciences. The paper summarizes, and quite nicely, the split of…

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Lengthy review essay by Stuart Elden of two recent Foucault publications On the government of the living, and Wrong-doing, truth-telling: the function of avowal in justice, in Berfrois. Some quotes: It is perhaps too little…

Originally posted on Lesley Chamberlain:
More than thirty years ago the artist-philosopher Jacques Derrida was working in the Old Bodleian Library in Oxford when he strayed into the shop. On offer were postcards  richly and decoratively redolent of the Western…

Dee Dutta and Trevor McCrisken on the implications of the US mid-terms for Obama and foreign affairs Michael Saward on ‘Political Courage‘ and the previously linked post by me and Adam David Morton, ‘Why read a long dead French Marxist … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life:
Just a reminder that the November 15 submission deadline for our 2015 symposium, “Inhabiting Containment,” is rapidly approaching. See below for CFP and symposium details: Inhabiting Containment Seeking to…

Originally posted on Christopher Watkin:
I’m currently writing the introduction to The Human Remains, discussing the figure of the human in the new materialism. I thought I would share the table I drew up of all the thinkers identified as…

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
Academics in pre-1992 universities who are members of the University and College Union (UCU) will tomorrow be commencing a marking boycott in response to a planned attack by employers on our USS pension…

Lauren Berlant to give the Society and Space lecture at the Chicago AAG meeting.

A new review at the Society and Space open site.