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Northward Ho! Denmark, North Pole and the ‘Recommendation’

Klaus Dodds reflects on the recent submission to the UN Committee on the Limits of the Continental Shelf by Denmark.

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The new urban question – A conversation on the legacy of Bernardo Secchi with Paola Pellegrini

very interesting discussion at the Society and Space open site.

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Barry, Andrew 2013 “Material Politics: Disputes Along the Pipeline” reviewed by Kai Bosworth

Andrew Barry’s new book reviewed at Society and Space open site.

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JUCS 1.3 content list

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
Pleased to announce that Issue 1.3 (2014) of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is in final production, content below: EDITORIAL Inaugural editorial: Urban cultural studies – a manifesto (part 2) RESEARCH ARTICLES The worst tourists…

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Verso 2014 – Selected highlights, from Arundhati Roy to Slavoj Žižek in a free Ebook

Verso 2014: Free Ebook Collection, edited by Verso Books Selected highlights, from Arundhati Roy to Slavoj Žižek We bring you a compilation of our most exciting reading from 2014, with contributions from leading radical names – brought together for the first … Continue reading →

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Volume 32, Issue 6 now out

New issue of Society and Space out – lots of very interesting papers in here.

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Statements by UCU, VC, Staff, Amnesty International and petitions about Warwick events on December 3 2014 The 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2014 How much censorship has there been in Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe? Critical Theory gifts for Christmas Last lecture … Continue reading →

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Saskia Sassen’s Father and Eichmann

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
An interesting and previously unknown story to me about the sociologist and urban theorist’s links, through her father, to Eichmann’s post-war life in Argentina. (She had left discussions of this out of her…

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Critical Theory gifts for Christmas

Some of these are inspired – Critical Theory gifts for Christmas (I think a few are recycled from last year, but no matter). Perhaps you want a Noam Chomsky candle, or a ‘Nietzsche drink koozy’…      

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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAPERS 57 /// Patterns of Life: A Very Short History of Schematic Bodies by Grégoire Chamayou

Originally posted on The Funambulist:
Pablo Picasso drawing with light / Photograph by Gjon Mili (1949) The second series of The Funambulist Papers continues around the topic of bodies. Today, I am glad and honored to welcome Grégoire Chamayou to this…

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