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Originally posted on Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Blog:
Australia has experienced severe heatwaves recently with temperatures reaching over 40C (104F). 2013 is currently the hottest year on record, but if trends continue 2014 could be not far behind. The extreme heat has led…

MIT Press/Semiotext(e) are publishing a two-volume collection entitled Schizo-Culture, which includes both the 1978 book and a reconstructed proceedings of the 1975 event that led to the book. Thanks to Nina Power for the link. The legendary 1975 “Schizo-Culture” conference, … Continue reading →

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
This review is a bit late but gives a good history and lead-up to an important work by Lyotard: Jean-François Lyotard, Discourse, Figure » CSCP / SCPC.

Surveillance & Society Call for Papers: Surveillance and Security Intelligence after Snowdon Volume 13, Number 1, January 2015 Deadline for Submissions: May 31st 2014

Natalie Oswin interviews Dean Spade on the Society and Space open site.

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
700 Free ebooks from the University of California press many of our favorite philosophers and much more, please spread the word!

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
According to Foucault, the language of the enemy-criminal comes into conflict with the language of the prison, which is more scientific in aim and which leads towards criminology. The problem appears in a text from the…

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

Originally posted on Politics Reconsidered:
This week, we’ve asked our academic staff to shed some light on what they do, and what they are interested in, by giving us their reading recommendations. Below, teachers from some of our most popular…

Former Society and Space editor Gerry Pratt and colleague Caleb Johnston provide a fieldnote on a performance of their play Nanay in Manila, along with a brief video.