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Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
“A Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) is a major change in the nature of warfare brought about by the innovative application of new technologies which, combined with dramatic changes in military doctrine and operational and…

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of 18th March, 1981 The same code of prohibitions and permissions in sexual ethics is present in the later Stoics and other Graeco-Roman thinkers of the first and second centuries as in the Christian thought…

Interesting thoughts (and data from University of Chicago Press) on book publishing and library sales.

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
We have had overwhelming support from a wide range of academics for our paper on why metrics are inappropriate for assessing research quality (200+ as of June 22nd). However, some have also posed…

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of 11th March, 1981 Marriage was institutionalised as a public union by Greeks in pre-Roman Egypt (where there was a considerable Greek influence from Alexander the Great’s conquest and from the Macedonian-Greek dynasty of one…

Gerry Pratt reviews Linda McDowell’s new book on the Society and Space open site.

A commentary on the impact agenda in Higher Education on the Society and Space open site.

According to WordPress, there have now been just over a million views of Progressive Geographies since the blog started in 2010. That’s page views, not visits. The map below – which shows visits from October 2013 – gives a good … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of 1st March, 1981 Foucault highlights the difference between love for women and love for boys, and the value placed on the man-woman love, particularly man-wife love, in antiquity in the period of Hellentistic-Roman philosophy.…

Explaining ISIS/ISIL – a roundup of things to read How powerful is your passport? – infographic The Constitution of Scottish Territory “Thought is the courage of hopelessness” – interview with Giorgio Agamben Richard Wolin on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks in the … Continue reading →