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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…

Originally posted on The Funambulist:
What is wrong with these pictures? Start maybe by looking at them all. The landscapes that they show are beautiful and seem to be almost untouched by humans. The problem is that they are taken…

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXM0S4n1Hw Iain Sinclair is a leading writer, filmmaker, poet and psychogeographer, renowned for his walks in the borderlands of cities, derelict sites and urban redevelopments. His solitary walks in Middlesbrough and Hartlepool were the focus of…

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
On April 15, 2013, two bombs targeting the Boston Marathon exploded on Boylston St, killing three and initiating the United State’s most visible domestic security operation of the decade. Two days later, a fertilizer plant…

Originally posted on Centre for Medical Humanities Blog:
A podcast of Professor Ian Hacking’s ‘Making Up Autism’ – Inaugural C. L. Oakley Lecture in Medicine and the Arts, University of Leeds, 13 May 2013 – is now available here.

Agnew on Mangani at the Society and Space open site.

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
Books & Ideas has a translated interview with Michel Foucher, ‘A world out of key’, on cartography and geopolitics. Foucher is a former diplomat and now a professional geographer (though no doubt each requires the…

This is rather good – and appears to be actually true.