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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…

Goldsmiths’ Sociology on the books they’re reading – plus Warwick’s Politics as linked from here before.

Originally posted on cities@manchester:
Jamie Peck, Department of Geograpy, UBC and Honorary Professor at SEED, University of Manchester, continues his analysis of the on-going restructuring of Detroit and its wider significance for the future of US cities. Detroit is…

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
As regards reading, to require that a man shall retain everything he has ever read, is like asking him to carry about with him all he has ever eaten. The one kind of food has given him…

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
Reassessing Recomposition: 40 Yrs After the Publication of Anti-Oedipus, Bifo very interesting online magazine well worth checking out other articles there

Originally posted on Dr Michael Marten FRHistS:
I have been re-reading Foucault recently, in English translation.  My French is not up to reading the original – sadly… oh if only I’d paid more attention in school! (Perhaps I should add…

The New Yorker has a nice piece on maps in fiction – thanks to Jeremy Crampton for the link.