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Chris Butler – Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Recently out with Routledge. Looks good, though shame about the price. While certain aspects of Henri Lefebvre’s writings have been examined extensively within the disciplines of geography, social theory, urban planning and cultural studies, there…

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A Survey of University Presses

Some interesting information on university presses, including the revelation that for many presses their own websites account for only 1% of sales…

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Herculine Barbin dite Alexina B. Nouvelle édition (2014)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault, Herculine Barbin dite Alexina B. Première parution en 1978 Postface d’Éric Fassin Nouvelle édition suivie d’Un scandale au couvent d’Oscar Panizza en 2014 Hors série Connaissance, Gallimard Parution : 13-03-2014 En 1868 à…

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Gratton’s March 19 lecture in Dublin on object-oriented philosophy

Originally posted on Object-Oriented Philosophy:
You can listen to it HERE. This is the most serious critical engagement with my work so far, and I look forward to reading Gratton’s FORTHCOMING BOOK ON SPECULATIVE REALISM. I deal with quite a…

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The Crimea Precedent & the Post-Soviet De Facto States

Originally posted on Critical Geopolitics:
The well-known Political Science blog The Monkey Cage, now owned by the Washington Post (now owned by Jeff Bezos; we all work for Amazon now) posted earlier today a concise 3 graph summary of what our De…

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My Talk in Dublin Last Night

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
It was wonderful to meet some good friends in Dublin–a really incisive collective of people. (Greatly, Paul Ennis turned out to be as nihilistic and funny as I found him in…

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Frederic Neyrat “The Political Unconscious of the Anthropocene” Interview by Elizabeth R. Johnson

Frederic Neyrat interviewed by Elizabeth R. Johnson on the Society and Space open site.

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Klaus Dodds on ‘The Popular Geopolitics of Mysterious Flights: MH370 and Herge’s Flight 714’

An interesting piece by Klaus Dodds that links missing flight MH370 with popular geopolitics, including a Tintin story.

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Bliatka reviews Fortress Europe

Matthew Carr’s Fortess Europe reviewed on the Society and Space open site.

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Putin’s Annexation of Crimea Speech Annotated

Gerard Toal provides a fascinating textual analysis of Putin’s speech – critical geopolitics at work…

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