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What is resilience?

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Interesting alternatives if not contradictions in understanding “resilience” in recent publications. Stephanie Wakefield & Bruce Braun understand resilience as a Foucauldian dispositif (apparatus): we understand resilience as a mode of governing the ‘ecological’ city. In Resilient…

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Evans & Reid – Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously

Out soon with Polity Press What does it mean to live dangerously? This is not just a philosophical question or an ethical call to reflect upon our own individual recklessness. It is a deeply political issue, fundamental to the new … Continue reading →

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“Kant’s Questions” Book Series

Intriguing new book series focusing on Kant

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Notes on Agamben’s theory of destituent power

Some useful notes situating Agamben’s theory of destituent power – a Society and Space article and a shorter lecture with linked themes.

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Bibliography of work on Foucault and education

Originally posted on Foucault News:
I have just finished (more or less) compiling a list of English language works on Foucault and education for my M.Ed (Master of Education) students. I thought this might also be of use to others…

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Theme section – A New Apparatus: Technology, Government and the Resilient City

Additional open site pieces to go with the Society and Space theme section.

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Volume 32, Issue 1 now out

New issue of Society and Space out, including an open access theme section – papers by Wakefield, Braun, Adams, Gabrys and Agamben.

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David Graeber interview at Radical History Review

Interesting interview with David Graeber at Radical History Review (open access), discussing debt, Debt, finance, anarchism and Occupy. Thanks to Peter Gratton for the link.

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Taming Tibet reviewed

Enze Han reviews Emily Yeh’s Taming Tibet at the Society and Space open site.

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The Politics of New Internet Domain Names

Phil Steinberg on the politics of internet domains.

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