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Interesting call for papers for the next RGS-IBG conference, building on some ideas discussed at the Warwick political geography conference last year.

Thomas Piketty refuses la Légion d’honneur – story in Le Monde. Je refuse cette nomination car je ne pense pas que ce soit le rôle d’un gouvernement de décider qui est honorable », a-t-il justifié, estimant que l’Etat « ferait bien de se consacrer à la relance de … Continue reading →

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Thanks for reading! Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 450,000 times in 2014. If it were … Continue reading →

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
Generation online has posted Arianna Bove’s translation of Negri’s presentation from the Marx-Foucault Colloquium at Nanterre, December 18-19, 2014.

Foucault and Neoliberalism – a few thoughts in response to the Zamora piece in Jacobin Time Magazine profile of Foucault from 1981 Étienne Balibar discusses Foucault’s La société punitive, with a response from Judith Butler Foucault and Iran (and Ernst … Continue reading →

Verso have an ebook sale – 90% off until January 1st 2015. I picked up nine for less than £15 – books by Eric Hazan, Danny Dorling, Slavoj Zizek, Shlomo Sand, Walter Benjamin, Stanley Aronowitz, Keller Easterling, Arundhati Roy and Marcus … Continue reading →

Adam Kuper has an interesting piece on his book Anthropologists and Anthropology, forty years on and in an updated new edition (with a reversed title). It’s a survey of British Anthropology as a discipline – almost an anthropology of anthropology. Kuper … Continue reading →

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
I expect many readers will know Patrick Crogan‘s Gameplay mode: war, simulation and technoculture (Minnesota, 2011).  He has now uploaded what I think is a draft of Drones and global technicity: automation and (dis)individuation at academia.  Here’s…

My Warwick colleague Marijn Nieuwenhuis has a new piece entitled ‘The Terror in the Air‘ at Open Democracy. The ranges from Beijing pollution to tear gas, and Eric Garner to Peter Sloterdijk.