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Warwick news story on FBA

Warwick have a brief news story on my election as a Fellow of the British Academy last week.

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Stuart Elden reviews Maha Samman

My review of Maha Samman’s Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine has just been published on the Society and Space open site.

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How Machiavellian was Machiavelli? Quentin Skinner answers

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
This is an interesting lecture some 500 years after Machiavelli wrote The Prince.

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Fellow of the British Academy

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.

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Review of Arts of the Political by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift

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…

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Debbie Lisle reviews Mirzoeff

new review at the Society and Space open site.

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From Above: blurbs

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.

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La Volonté de savoir de Michel Foucault. Regards critiques 1976-1979

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,…

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A history of the secret

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 Etymology: secret (n.)late 14c., from Latin secretus “set apart, withdrawn, hidden,”…

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Sarah Schulman reviewed by Gerry Kearns

Kearns reviews Schulman.

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