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A fifth commentary on Henri Lefebvre’s ‘Dissolving City, Planetary Metamorphosis’ added

Adam David Morton adds a piece to the forum on the Lefebvre essay in Society and Space.

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Urbanomic’s The Accelerationist Reader published

Urbanomic’s The Accelerationist Reader has been published.

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Discussion forum on Henri Lefebvre ‘Dissolving city, planetary metamorphosis’ – paper and intro open access, and four online commentaries

Four commentaries on a short piece by Lefebvre that appeared in the last issue Society and Space – all open access. As well as Lefebvre’s piece, there is the introduction by David Wachsmuth and Neil Brenner, and commentaries by Anne … Continue reading →

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What is Space: a Post-Disciplinary Workshop at Warwick on the Return of an Old Debate – 17 June 2014

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Please contact Marijn Nieuwenhuis with any inquiries. The workshop is on 17 June 2014. Poster here. What is Space: a Post-Disciplinary Workshop on the Return of an Old Debate The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me (Pascal, Thoughts,…

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The City as Open Source Pedagogy – Alberto Corsín Jiménez

An online update for a paper in the latest Society and Space (open access for a month).

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How people die in Shakespeare’s tragedies

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
via Biblioklept.

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In Memory of Ernesto Laclau

Originally posted on constellations68:
In Memory of Ernesto Laclau I first met Ernesto Laclau in 1992, in Johannesburg. I was an MA student, studying politics intent on changing the world not merely interpreting it. I struggled though, with party lines,…

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century: A Reading List

Originally posted on The Ship's (B)log:
Were you hoping to read Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, but weren’t able to get a copy before we sold out of our first batch? Rest assured, we expect more…

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Ernesto Laclau, The Rhetorical Foundations of Society – forthcoming collection from Verso

  Laclau’s The Rhetorical Foundations of Society – forthcoming in May from Verso. Sad this is, now, a posthumous collection… Coauthor of Hegemony and Socialist Strategy shows how rhetoric constitutes the social order The essays collected in this volume develop the … Continue reading →

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Stefano Liberti, Land-Grabbing: Journeys in the New Colonialism

Interesting read from Verso – Stefano Liberti, Land-Grabbing: Journeys in the New Colonialism. I ordered this as paper copy, and a bunch more in the Verso sale, but because of the bundled e-books was able to read this while on the road. A … Continue reading →

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