The Funambulist Magazine issue 4 – Carceral Environments

Posted on March 3, 2016 by stuartelden
Cover Carceral EnvironmentsThe fourth issue of The Funambulist Magazine is now published. After examining the politics of space/design and bodies of militarized cities, suburbs, and clothing, it is now the turn of Carceral Environments to be investigated by the talented contributors to the magazine. This issue examines various forms of incarceration spaces in relation to the bodies they imprison. Architecture’s violence is never greater than through its carceral typology, and a bit of this typology lies in all architecture. The issue explore political prisons in Ireland (Fiona McCann), migrant detention centers in the United Kingdom (Tings Chak & Sarah Turnbull), Indigenous boarding schools in Canada (Desirée Valadares), the carceral history of Guantanamo Bay (A. Naomi Paik), labor camps in California (Sabrina Puddu), and prison abolitionism (Nasrin Himada) in additions to the usual photographic and student sections, as well as the opinion columns and blog article re-edition.

Although the issue is already available, it will be formally launched at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal on Sunday 6th March at 3PM through a presentation of its contents and an introduction to prison abolitionism by Nasrin Himada, contributor to the issue. See the CCA website for more information. There will also be a presentation of this issue in Berlin on March 29 (more information about this event soon).

As usual, the issue is available for purchase in four different offers:
– Printed Version
– Digital Version
– Printed + Digital Combo
– Issues 03 Clothing Politics & 04 Carceral Environments Combo (printed)

You can also subscribe to the magazine and thus support The Funambulist in a longer span of time while benefiting of better prices. A big thanks to the many of you who already subscribed!:
– Printed Subscription per month
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– Printed + Digital Annual Subscription

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Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South, edited by Ananya Roy and Emma Shaw Crane

Posted on March 2, 2016 by stuartelden

9780820348438Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South, edited by Ananya Roy and Emma Shaw Crane, now out with University of Georgia Press.

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor people’s movements, and global networks of poverty expertise, as well as more intimate modes of poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina New Orleans to Korean church missions in Africa, this book is fundamentally concerned with how poverty is territorialized.

In contrast to studies concerned with locations of poverty, Territories of Povertyengages with spatial technologies of power, be they community development and counterinsurgency during the American 1960s or the unceasing anticipation of war in Beirut. Within this territorial matrix, contributors uncover dissent, rupture, and mobilization. This book helps us understand the regulation of poverty—whether by globally circulating models of fast policy or vast webs of mobile money or philanthrocapitalist foundations—as multiple terrains of struggle for justice and social transformation.

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Ingo Farin and Jeff Malpas (eds.) Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1931-1941 – out in late March

Posted on March 2, 2016 by stuartelden

9780262034012Also on the ‘Black Notebooks’, Ingo Farin and Jeff Malpas (eds.) Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 1931-1941 will be out in late March.

For more than forty years, the philosopher Martin Heidegger logged ideas and opinions in a series of notebooks, known as the “Black Notebooks” after the black oilcloth booklets into which he first transcribed his thoughts. In 2014, the notebooks from 1931 to 1941 were published, sparking immediate controversy. It has long been acknowledged that Heidegger was an enthusiastic supporter of the Nazi Party in the early 1930s. But the notebooks contain a number of anti-Semitic passages—often referring to the stereotype of “World-Jewry”—written even after Heidegger became disenchanted with the Nazis themselves. Reactions from the scholarly community have ranged from dismissal of the significance of these passages to claims that the anti-Semitism in them contaminates all of Heidegger’s work. This volume offers the first collection of responses by Heidegger scholars to the publication of the notebooks. In essays commissioned especially for the book, the contributors offer a wide range of views, addressing not only the issues of anti-Semitism and Nazism but also the broader questions that the notebooks raise.

Contributors
Babette Babich, Andrew Bowie, Steven Crowell, Fred Dallmayr, Donatella Di Cesare, Michael Fagenblat, Ingo Farin, Gregory Fried, Jean Grondin, Karsten Harries, Laurence Paul Hemming, Jeff Malpas, Thomas Rohkrämer, Tracy B. Strong, Peter Trawny, Daniela Vallega-Neu, Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, Nancy A. Weston, Holger Zaborowski

 

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Donovan Irven reviews David Farrell Krell’s Ecstasy, Catastrophe: Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks

Posted on March 2, 2016 by stuartelden

63264_covDonovan Irven reviews David Farrell Krell’s Ecstasy, Catastrophe: Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks at Phenomenological Reviews (open access).

 

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The Guardian’s Shakespeare Solos series continues with six new films

Posted on March 2, 2016 by stuartelden

The Guardian’s Shakespeare Solos series continues with six new films

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Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca (ed.) Hitler’s Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich

Posted on March 2, 2016 by stuartelden

9780226274423Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca (ed.) Hitler’s Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich – shortly out from University of Chicago Press.

Lebensraum: the entitlement of “legitimate” Germans to living space. Entfernung: the expulsion of “undesirables” to create empty space for German resettlement. During his thirteen years leading Germany, Hitler developed and made use of a number of powerful geostrategical concepts such as these in order to justify his imperialist expansion, exploitation, and genocide. As his twisted manifestation of spatial theory grew in Nazi ideology, it created a new and violent relationship between people and space in Germany and beyond.

With Hitler’s Geographies, editors Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca examine the variety of ways in which spatial theory evolved and was translated into real-world action under the Third Reich. They have gathered an outstanding collection by leading scholars, presenting key concepts and figures as well exploring the undeniable link between biopolitical power and spatial expansion and exclusion.

My 2006 essay on ‘National Socialism and the Politics of Calculation’ (which you can download here) is reprinted in the collection.

 

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Michele Lancione on “Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin” by Alexander Vasudevan

Posted on March 1, 2016 by stuartelden

Alex Vasudevan’s book on squatting in Berlin reviewed at the Society and Space open site.

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Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? – minor updates to the reading guide

Posted on February 29, 2016 by stuartelden

9781784782757I’ve made some very minor updates to the reading guide ‘Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre?‘

The main update is a link to with a link to Benjamin Fraser’s second book on Lefebvre – Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities; but there is also a note on the other Henri Lefebvre, author of The Missing Pieces.

The forthcoming translation of Metaphilosophy with Verso has slipped back to July – we’ve just received the proofs; while Marxist Thought and the City should appear in late 2016 with University of Minnesota Press.

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CFP: Foucault at 90 – 22-23 June 2016, University of West of Scotland

Posted on February 29, 2016 by stuartelden

Foucault at 90: International Conference

University of the West of Scotland
Ayr Campus, Scotland, UK

Call for Papers
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of the French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-84). This interdisciplinary conference aims to reflect on the work of Michel Foucault and in particular on the question of its abiding relevance and value.

Keynote speakers include Stephen Ball, Mark Olssen, and Clare O’Farrell. Based at our
attractive Ayr campus, on the scenic west coast of Scotland, this conference promises to be a stimulating and enjoyable event.

Full details here (thanks to the Sociological Imagination for the link.)

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Images of refugee camps, part 1: aerial views

Posted on February 23, 2016 by stuartelden

Some striking and disturbing images of refugee camps from the air.

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This is the first in a series of posts about images of refugee camps. For three earlier posts about images of refugees, click here, here, and here.

1 Zaatari Refugee Camp, Dezeen

You’ve already seen this photo, or one like it. It’s Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan, home to a large (though fluctuating) population of Syrian refugees—about 80,000 at the time of writing, according to the UNHCR data portal’s page on the camp, though it’s been higher. At the moment, Zaatari is probably the most famous refugee camp in the world, though there are many that are older, or bigger, or both. Politicians, diplomats, celebrities, and tourists visit it, and so do many, many journalists. That’s one of the reasons why I say that you’ve already seen this photo, or one like it: if you pay even the slightest bit of attention to the news media, your eyes have…

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