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Purcell on Butler on Lefebvre.

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Radical Philosophy has recently been the venue for a short exchange of views on the topic of resilience. Let’s see what was said. Mark Neocleous led off with a piece on “resisting resilience.” In his view, “resilience…

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
by Marijn Nieuwenhuis, University of Warwick Introduction The idea of nationhood rests on the claim of a specific territorial area. The cartographic demarcating of territory automatically exposes, however, the contingent nature of borders. Modern borders…

Originally posted on War Law Space:
On the heels of my last post, I now turn to a second geography of drones: how much do drones matter in Israel? Last Tuesday  (April 30) the Israeli Defense Force targeted and killed Hitham Masshal, a twenty-four…

Walter Benjamin, `On Theoretical Foundations: Theses on Brecht (1930)’ Howard Caygill, `Philosophy and the Black Panthers’ Stella Sandford, `The Fantasy of the Birth of Concepts in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason’ Andy Merrifield, `Citizens’ Agora: The New Urban Question’ Emma … Continue reading →

For a limited time, the new Past and Present Supplement, Transnationalism and Contemporary Global History, is available for free online. This collection shifts attention away from the west to the non-western world, providing a forum for new voices from China, … Continue reading →

Miguel de Beistegui’s Proust as Philosopher is reviewed at NDPR.

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Late last week I received grievous news that Hugh, a professor of philosophy and comparative literature at Stony Brook, passed away after suffering from cancer. Hugh was my undergraduate advisor and…

a useful overview of the structure of Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory