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Foucault – links to difficult-to-find short texts, and some requests for help

I’ve previously posted some requests for help in locating some difficult-to-find short texts by Foucault, and thanks to readers of this site have received copies of some of these. I’ve updated the requests for help page, along with a few more requests. … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Neoliberalism + Biopolitics – Conference at Berkeley, 27-28 Feb 2015 – with Balibar, Brown, Harcourt, Mbembe… The Birth of Territory reviewed in Theory, Culture and Society “Europe After The Minotaur”: free e-book from the new Finance Minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis Giorgio Agamben … Continue reading →

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Global Affairs – new journal with first issue open access

Global Affairs – new journal from Routledge with first issue open access. Papers on EU foreign policy, Ukraine, Ebola, etc.

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Ian Bogost on email in The Atlantic

Ian Bogost discusses the problems of email in The Atlantic. Email is the worst, but some emails are worse than others. The worst emails are forwards. And the worst forwards? Not the jokes your uncle sends you from his AOL account, … Continue reading →

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Back in the Sattel(zeit) again

A discussion of the legacy of Reinhart Koselleck.

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New issue of Limn on “Ebola Ecologies”

Originally posted on Governing Emergencies:
Issue 5 of Limn is now available and focuses on the 2014 Ebola outbreak. It is a great resource for anyone interested in global biosecurity emergencies and how global health norms, logics and techniques can be…

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Clayton Howard reviews Amy Howard’s More Than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing

a new review at the Society and Space open site.

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Scott Lash remembers Ulrich Beck

At the Theory, Culture & Society website – Scott Lash remembers Ulrich Beck.

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Foucault and Iran (and Ernst Bloch) – an August 1979 interview newly available in French Günter Figal resigns as Heidegger Society Chair over the content of the Black Notebooks Heidegger’s Black Notebooks: Philosophy, Politics, Anti-Semitism A request for help – … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek – I put down notes, I edit it. Writing disappears

I’m sure I’ve shared the quote before, but this is with a video. How much would he write if he could actually type? (Via Biblioklept)

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