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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.

Some interesting reflections on what makes a good humanities book…

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of twenty-fourth January, 1973 As my notes and comments on this expanded beyond the length of what I posted for previous lectures, I posting on this lecture in two parts. Foucault sets up this lecture…

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of seventeenth January 1973 Foucault starts this lecture by reference to a speech delivered in the constituent assembly in October 1789, which defended the legal practices of the Old Regime (the monarchy before the French…

Originally posted on Path to the Possible:
Don’t forget – this year’s round of Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project and International Workshop Awards closes at the end of March. Grants of up to £10,000 (or its equivalent in another currency) are…

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Matt Hannah has reviewed Susan Schulten’s Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago) on H-Net Reviews. Susan Schulten’s Mapping the Nation is physically attractive, based on sound scholarly work yet accessibly written, and effectively…

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
My work on drones has been invigorated by reading an outstandingly creative essay by Lucy Suchman on ‘Situational Awareness: deadly bioconvergence at the boundaries of bodies and machines’, forthcoming at the ever-interesting Mediatropes.  It’s sparked both an e-mail…