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Originally posted on Posthegemony:
I have spent almost the entirety of my academic career reading, and responding to, Ernesto Laclau, who has died at the age of 78. Ernesto was one of the great systematic thinkers of the past fifty…

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
In the face of a UK higher education marking boycott due to start in 11 days time, universities have come forth with a new pay offer. Having unilaterally imposed a 1% rise (read:…

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Thanks to Nicholas Dahmann for updating this image. According to some reports, II, 4 will not be published and the designation of Opus Dei as II, 5 may have been an error. The Use of Bodies is the last…

Originally posted on occasional links & commentary:
Ernest0 Laclau was, by all accounts, a decent, gentle man and a path-breaking scholar on the Left. I first became aware of Laclau in terms of his participation in the famous “modes of…

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Mooney, J. A tale of two regicides (2014) European Journal of Criminology, 11 (2), pp. 228-250. Abstract This paper examines two attempted 18th century cases of regicide: those of Robert François Damiens against Louis XV…

Kim Ward reviews Biosocial Becomings: Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology, a new collection edited by Tim Ingold and Gisli Palsson at the Society and Space open site.