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Top posts this week on Progressive Geographies

Shakespeare in New York: Kenneth Branagh as Macbeth – a short review The work of editing – adding references to translations Books received – Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Lefebvre etc. (2 of 3) Books received – territory, borders, architecture, government (1 … Continue reading →

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Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary – the host is a bit lacking but Rabinow is probably the most important intellectual of our time… http://www.stanford.edu/dept/fren-ital/opinions/shows/eo10175.mp3 ? Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University…

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Foucault’s lectures on Subjectivity and Truth, I.1.

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
I will be summarising and commenting on the most recently published of Michel Foucault’s lecture series at the Collège de France, on subjectivity and truth (Subjectivité et Vérité. Cours au Collège de France, 1980-1981. Eds. François…

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Georg Lukács questions – did Existentialismus oder Marxismus? or ‘Heidegger Redivivus’ ever get translated into English?

Did Georg Lukács’s 1954 book Existentialismus oder Marxismus? ever get translated into English? And did his ‘Heidegger Redivivus’ ever get translated? My searching has turned up nothing so I am assuming not. I know both are available in French and German.

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Cryptologic geographies

Originally posted on Open Geography:
In 2011, a 29-year-old grad student at the University of Münster in Germany made some coding alterations to OpenSSL, the secure sockets layer used on half a million websites around the world, including banks, financial institutions and…

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Volume 32, Issue 3 now out

New issue of Society and Space out.

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Foucault’s Lectures on the Punitive Society XIII (concluding here)

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of March 28th, 1973 The last lecture. Coming soon, summaries of the lectures in Subjectivité et Vérité: Cours au Collège de France. 1980-1981, published a few weeks ago. Foucault refers to the role of the prison,…

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Foucault’s Lectures on the Punitive Society XII (should be XI)

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of March 14th 1973 In my last post on Foucault I referred to my mistake in dates and orders of the lectures I am summarising. I have had to correct my own correction and have…

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Top posts this week

Mapping the world through its airport connections – excellent visualisation Medieval rules for sex in an easy to use flowchart Boko Haram – An Annotated Bibliography Wendy Brown—Governmentality in the Age of Neoliberalism (2014) Rob Kitchin’s forthcoming The Data Revolution … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Lectures on the Punitive Society X

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of March 7th 1973 ? Foucault continues a discussion from the last lecture of the lawyer Guy-Jean-Baptiste Target, he refers to there in connection with the dehumanised account of peasant rebels against the regime of…

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