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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Details of events in Manchester and London – as part of the Spring project. The Socialist President Salvadore Allende was elected to power in Chile in 1970, and embarked upon a series of radical reforms…

Dialogues in Human Geography has a discussion of big data and geography (requires subscription). Thanks to David Beer for the link.

Simon Critchley is giving another summer school on the philosophy of tragedy at Tilburg University. Next summer’s Tilburg Philosophy Summer School will explore the relation between philosophy and tragedy in particular and philosophy, drama and aesthetics more generally. My orienting … Continue reading →

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…