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Some good titles here.

Carlo Natali, Aristotle: His Life and School, D. S. Hutchinson (ed.), Princeton University Press, 2013, reviewed by Michael J. Griffin at NDPR.

Originally posted on This Sociological Life:
Sociology in the Anglophone world has been in the doldrums for some time. Since the heady days of poststructuralism and postmodernism, until very recently few advances had been made in theory or method. British…

London’s waterways mapped – the site also has sound clips of site recordings at each location. Thanks to several people who shared this on Facebook.  

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
Literary journals should be a dam against the unconscionable scribbling of the age, and the ever-increasing deluge of bad and useless books. Their judgments should be uncorrupted, just and rigorous; and every piece of bad work…

Review forum on Ben Woodward’s On an Ungrounded Earth at the Society and Space open site.

Originally posted on Machinology:
I am pleased to announce that I have signed a contract with University of Minnesota Press for a new book tentatively called A Geology of Media. Planned for 2015, A Geology of Media forms the third,…

Two questions, and some interesting discussion in the comments, about Heidegger translations. I think Dasein should be kept, and all the nuances teased out in a translator note; and I dislike the capitalisation of nouns in English since it tends … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Stephen Graham, Foucault’s Boomerang: the New Military Urbanism OpenDemocracy, 14 February 2013. According to Stephen Graham, a new set of ‘Foucauldian boomerang effects’ are shaping how states apply ‘tactics of control’ over everyday urban life.…

Originally posted on Pop Theory:
I have just read Kevin Cox’s new book, Making Human Geography. It tells the story, as he sees it, of how over the last 50 years or so, human geography has become a field of sophisticated…