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Forthcoming in Society and Space, Franck Billé’s “Territorial phantom pains (and other cartographic anxieties)” (requires subscription).

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Daniele Lorenzini, Ariane Revel & Arianna Sforzini (eds.) Michel Foucault : éthique et vérité (1980-1984), Paris, Vrin, coll. « Problèmes & Controverses », 2013 Les recherches menées par Foucault au cours des années quatre-vingt demeurent,…

An interesting analysis of Twitter: Writers who cover Twitter find the grandiose irresistible: nearly every article about the service’s IPO this fall mentioned the heroes of the Arab Spring who toppled dictators with 140-character stabs, or the size of Lady Gaga’s readership, which … Continue reading →

Verso’s catalogue for Spring 2014 is now available – many interesting looking books, including Roudinesco’s Lacan; Gros’s A Philosophy of Walking; Lefebvre’s Critique of Everyday Life (three volumes in one); Liberti’s Land-Grabbing (in paperback); Wilson’s Jeffrey Sachs; Kojève’s The Notion of Authority; and Rancière’s Aisthesis.

James Glickman reviews Joss Whedon’s film Much Ado About Nothing on the Berfrois website. A really good and interesting review, situating the film within the wider context of filming Shakespeare. I enjoyed the review more than the film, to be honest.

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
St Andrews has just posted the video of my Neil Smith Lecture on “The Natures of War” online here, and I’ve also embedded it below.  We lowered the lights so that the slides would pop, so…

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
“He lifts the lifewand and the dumb speak” – James Joyce Here Comes Everybody: Joyce’s Urban Chaosmos Andy Merrifield, Fellow, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge One of the great humanist visions of James Joyce’s…

Political Concepts – Issue 3.1 has been published – Avital Rondell on ‘authority’; Richard J. Bernstein on ‘violence’; Jacques Lezra on ‘enough’ and ‘translation’; Susan Buck-Morss on ‘civilization’; Ariella Azoulay on ‘revolution’, and many more…

The Future of Social Theory… ten years later.

Pluto press round up some pieces related to McGettigan’s book The Great University Gamble.