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Originally posted on Foucault News:
Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Insuring War: Sovereignty, Security and Risk, Routledge (Interventions Series), 2012, ISBN: 978-0-415-61772-7 Publisher’s web page Description Insurance is a central, if until now ignored, instrument of war in the modern period. Ever since…

This has just been linked to on the Foucault discussion list – a 1983 seminar at Berkeley in the History department. lecture; 1st discussion; 2nd discussion: there is also a transcript of the discussion. Thanks to Kevin Turner for the … Continue reading →

Another in the ever-interesting series of interviews – this time with Beth Lord from Dundee (Beth and I were at Warwick at the same time).

Some of the geographers at Royal Holloway have recently launched a Geopolitics and Security blog – only a handful of posts so far, but looks interesting.

Interesting interview with geographer and urbanist Matthew Gandy (via Pop Theory). Also check out Matt’s blog.

Raymond William’s Keywords is a modern classic. Julia Lupton has alerted us to the interesting new Keywords Project that has some extra entries, a whole set of resources, essays, etc. One of their lists of prospective future words includes ‘territory’ – there … Continue reading →

Some brief advice from publishers in this video (via the University of Minnesota Press blog) – it was from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference, but the advice is general:

The audio for “A Poetics of Nothing: Air in the Early Modern Imagination” by Steve Mentz is available – listened to this yesterday sitting in the airport departure lounge.