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Simon Critchley – SHITISFUCKEDUPANDBULLSHIT

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwi67aHaodQ for the rest of his “short discourse on the consequences of the separation of power and politics” go to: https://www.ici-berlin.org/docu/critchley/?tx_bddbflvvideogallery_pi1%5Bvideo%5D=2

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Punk Sociology…cover, pre-orders, publisher’s site and an endorsement

David Beer’s Punk Sociology forthcoming in January.

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Jenny Diski on books (and home space)

A good piece on books and their impact on our lives and homes.

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The Signature of Power: Sovereignty, Governmentality and Biopolitics (2013)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Mitchell Dean, The Signature of Power: Sovereignty, Governmentality and Biopolitics, SAGE, September 2013 Publisher’s page Description Mitchell Dean revitalized the study of ‘governmentality’ with his bestselling book of the same title. His new book on…

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Unlimited Migration in a Limited World, Saskia Sassen

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXB2tsiKR_E interesting presentation on what she calls the analytic tactics (working out of “epistemic indignation”) before method, which makes sense I think if we consider these terms along sociological lines rather than as strict categories,…

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Andrew Neal – the myth of Hadrian’s firewall

Andrew Neal has a piece in The Scotsman on the likely impact of a Scottish independence vote on the UK’s national security infrastructure.

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Kathryn Yusoff on Project Anthropocene at Geocritique

Kathryn Yusoff’s short essay “Project Anthropocene: a minoritarian manifesto for reoccupying the strata” is available at Geocritique.

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European maps of language groups – words for bear, church, beer, etc.

More maps here (thanks to Simon Springer for the link).

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Book Review Symposium – Philip Mirowski’s ‘Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown’

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Guest editor: Brett Christophers, Uppsala University Philip Mirowski’s Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste is an important and distinctive contribution to debates around the politics and economics of the economic crisis which began…

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# HISTORY /// The Body as a Terrain of Experiments: Medicine and Vile Bodies According to Grégoire Chamayou

Originally posted on The Funambulist:
As announced in the previous article about the “thanatopolitics of death penalty,” I will propose a review of the book Les corps vils : Expérimenter sur les êtres humains aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles (Vile Bodies:…

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