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Originally posted on Open Geography:
I have a short piece in a forum on teaching the history of geography, organized by Innes Keighren for Progress in Human Geography. There are also contributions by Franklin Ginn, Scott Kirsch, Audrey Kobayashi, Simon Naylor and Jörn Seemann.…

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Matt Wilson and I interviewed John Pickles recently about the history of critical cartography, the Friday Harbor meetings in 1993 and Brian Harley. This has now appeared in Cartographica as part of a special issue…

The University of Freiburg has issued a clarification: “University Freiburg: Husserl and Heidegger Remain in Freiburg” (via Enowning).

I was away for much of the week, so not that many new posts. Umberto Eco – How to Write a Thesis (MIT Press) New Series at Edinburgh: New Perspectives in Ontology Judy! – the 1993 Judith Butler fanzine available … Continue reading →

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
In the context of a panel I put together on “Turning Ploughshares into Swords: Weapons and Weaponizations”, the ISA’s annual conference was the occasion for me to present some of the research I…

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Mark G. E. Kelly, Foucault and Neoliberalism Today, Contriver’s Review, March 2015 Late last year, a PhD student in Belgium, Daniel Zamora, published a smallish edited collection of essays in French called “Criticising Foucault” (Critiquer…

I’m delighted to announce that Contesting the Arctic: Politics and Imaginaries in the Circumpolar North is now published. The book was something of a writing experiment for myself and co-authors. Contesting the Arctic not only seeks to understand the Arctic…

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
My colleague Sean McGrath and I have started up a series with Edinburgh UP, ‘New Perspectives in Ontology’. Our board is now just about in place, including Maurizio Farraris (Turin), Iain Hamilton Grant (University…

Inaugural Lecture of Laleh Khalili: Sinews of War and Trade – SOAS, University of London, 11 March 2015.

A forum at Society and Space on the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ attacks and responses to them, based on contributions to a workshop at Durham University.