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Yesterday I was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. It’s a huge honour and I’m very grateful. The BA’s announcement is here.

Originally posted on Pop Theory:
My review of Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift’s Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left has just been published on Antipode’s online Book Review page.  There is also a (shorter) review of the same book…

new review at the Society and Space open site.

Peter Adey has posted the endorsements for the forthcoming collection, From Above – will be great to see this out, as it really is a terrific collection.

Originally posted on Foucault News:
La Volonté de savoir de Michel Foucault. Regards critiques 1976-1979 Dossier coordonné par Jean-François Bert Textes choisis, présentés et traduits par Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Philippe Chevallier, Frédéric Gros, Florian Nicodème, Luca Paltrinieri, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville,…

Originally posted on Open Geography:
What is the secret, and what is its relation to privacy? Some musings, on reading Clare Birchall’s 2011 paper “Transparency Interrupted” in Theory, Culture & Society. Etymology: secret (n.)late 14c., from Latin secretus “set apart, withdrawn, hidden,”…

Kearns reviews Schulman.

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Conference in July in London – full details here.

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
In an essay published today at the LRB, Slavoj Žižek addresses the current, disparate waves of protest around the globe and explores the difference between a reformist and a revolutionary period: in a reformist period, global revolution remains a…

My article on Leibniz and geography is published in the new issue of Geographica Helvetica. The journal is subscription only for the first year but I can send a copy of the article if you ask. Leibniz and geography: geologist, … Continue reading →