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Pepe Romanillos reviews Jeanne Haffner’s The View from Above: The Science of Social Space at H-Net. Here’s the first paragraph: Views of the earth from above have increasingly become the subject of critical interrogation. Jeanne Haffner’s fascinating book The View from Above: The Science of … Continue reading →

Good piece from Duke University Press on the future of book publishing.

Matthew Wilson discusses his forthcoming piece “Morgan Freeman is dead and other big data stories“, forthcoming in Cultural Geographies. The pre-print is available here. “On 5 September 2012 a new Facebook page was created titled “R.I.P. Morgan Freeman” causing a … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
PDF flyer Premières lectures, premières réactions, et pistes de recherches Journée d’étude autour de Michel Foucault, La Société punitive (1972-1973) Mardi 17 décembre 2013 de 10h à 13h, salles du conseil A & B de…

Interesting piece by Adam David Morton at his For the Desk Drawer blog discussing a paper that is forthcoming in Antipode. Here’s one key paragraph: A further concern pursued in our article is the issue of uneven and combined development … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Amy Allen, The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory, Columbia University Press, 2007. This has just been newly published in paperback. Publisher’s page Draws on the work of Michel…

Originally posted on Ruminative Rumblings:
In the last ten years, one of the great things about being an academic has been the explosion of public information available online. While I miss aspects of browsing through dusty archives and stacks, it’s…

If you read French, this is an interesting discussion of what is called ‘a new Heidegger affair’ – the comments on antisemitism in a forthcoming volume of the Gesamtausgabe. [Update: I mistakenly said this was Volume 73; it is rather Volumes … Continue reading →

A short video linked to a paper in Society and Space, with the paper open access for a short time in recompense for the authors’ additional material for the open site. This is something we are trying to do more … Continue reading →