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Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
The Higher Education Funding Council for England are reviewing the idea of using metrics (or citation counts) in research assessment. We think using metrics to measure research quality is a terrible idea, and we’ll…

The Political Geographies of FIFA and World Cup football Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions – first chapter online Graham Harman’s Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political due out in October Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds – new book series edited … Continue reading →

This looks a really helpful resource for anyone interested in Laruelle. Thanks to Michael O’Rourke for the alert.

An interesting new project on mapping the Arctic.

New review at the Society and Space open site

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
by Marijn Nieuwenhuis, University of Warwick Maps are vital for the geographic imaginary of the state. They are, as David Harvey (2001) and others (see, for example, Crampton and Elden 2007; Elden 2013) remind us,…

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 →

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…

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…

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.