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Books that inspired academics.

Very interesting interview with Paul Rabinow.

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Amazing visualizations out of Twitter labs. All geotagged tweets since the beginning for various places around the world. North America (click image for more):

A forum on geography and social media in Dialogues in Human Geography.

Only just heard about this major conference on Machiavelli, with a host of interesting speakers including Balibar, Lezra, Montag and Vatter. Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) is the most important and influential political thinker of the early modern age. Every single political … Continue reading →

This and more at the BBC News site. Thanks to Ben Rosamond for the link.

A map of every street, town, and city Dylan has ever sung about.

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJa00_SiK6c Keynote talk by William E. Connolly at the 3rd Annual Radical Democracy Conference on March 16, 2013 at The New School in New York. Talk on “The New Materialism, Fragility, and Activism.” For more information…

Two books by Catherine Malabou are reviewed on the Open Site.

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
Many readers will know of various attempts made, several years ago, to map the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme.  One of the most innovative was artist-geographer Trevor Paglen‘s Terminal Air project (and the idea of (de)basing…