Derek Gregory’s two Tanner lectures, and the discussion with Grégoire Chamayou, Jochen von Bernstorff and Chris Woods are now online (via Derek’s Geographical Imaginations site).
The first,‘Good bomb, bad bomb’ is here, and the second, ‘Killing Space’, is here, while the responses from Grégoire Chamayou, Jochen von Bernstorff and Chris Woods are here.
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Launch of the book: Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds with Zygmunt Bauman, Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela and Eyal Weizman.
The event will be held at the Centre for Research Architecture, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, March, 16 – details here.
The launch will be followed the day after by a lecture at
the Zurich University of the Arts. The official launch in New-York, will take place on April 6, at New York University (NYU)’s Humanities Center.Further information about the book is available here.
I wonder if anyone can help. I am looking for a brochure entitled ‘Révolte à la prison de Charles III de Nancy’, authored by the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons. It appeared as a supplement to Gauche révolutionnaire, no 9, 1972. The Bibliothèque Nationale has issues 5-22 of that newsletter, but unfortunately does not have the supplements.
Some – perhaps all – of this is reproduced in the recent book La Révolte de la prison de Nancy, pp. 112-21, but I’d really hoped to find the original text to check. The supplement is also mentioned in Comité Vérité Toul, La Révolte de la centrale Ney, p. 351; and in the recent Intolérable collection of GIP pamphlets, p. 268. The earlier Archives d’une lutte collection of their work has the image of the cover on p. 238 (reproduced here).
The BNF copy has nos 9-10-11 as a treble issue, of 24 pages, dated 15 janvier/15 mars 1972. Why would the Archives d’une lutte reference suggest a supplement to no 9 alone? The Intolérable timeline suggests June 1972. June 1972 relates to a double issue, no 13-14, 15 juin-15 juillet 1972, but no supplement is present there either. Perhaps there was another newsletter – ‘revolutionary left’ is hardly specific as a title, and I know there was a journal of the same name in the 1930s – but I think this is the right one and that it is just missing the supplement. There are other libraries that have runs of the newsletter, but if the whole of the text is reproduced in La Révolte de la prison de Nancy, or if that library also doesn’t have the supplements, then it would be a long and wasted trip. So, if anyone knows more about this, please do get in touch.
Update March 2016: Nanterre’s BDIC, which also has a run of the newsletter, does not have the supplement. Contacting the editor of the La Révolte de la prison de Nancy has not, so far, led to a resolution of the query. Any further leads would be appreciated.
An updated website is now live with videos from the first 8 panels, as well as the links to the upcoming livestreams.
The London Graduate School is pleased to announce details of its 2016 Summer Academy, an intensive week-long programme offered annually for postgraduate students of any institutional affiliation. Hosted in conjunction with Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, the venue for the Summer Academy this year is once again the Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, King’s Cross, London.
This looks to be interesting: 2016 Summer Academy: Intersecting Derrida « London Graduate School
A pile of recently received books – mainly bought for the Shakespeare project, plus Foucault’s 1980 lectures About the Beginning of the Hermeneutic of the Subject and Bob Jessop’s The State: Past, Present, Future in recompense for review work. The text at the bottom is the special issue of Le Point on Foucault from 2004.
Vilna Bashi Treitler on saying ‘no’ to academic requests, and the idea of a ‘no committee’. Here’s a key part:
Forming a “No Committee” helped me get perspective on my limits. Let me tell you about my No Committee. On it, I have two friends who are both professors and the third person is my life partner. Their qualifications: they care about me, they know the academy well enough to know what challenges are there for me, and they keep up with me so that they know how much is too much for me to handle.
How do I use them? When an opportunity comes to me, I send them an email with the subject line “Here’s one for the No Committee” and ask them for their advice. In the email I describe the opportunity, what information I have about what it entails (and whether I can trust the information I have), and further, I normally list all my reasons for saying yes to this thing plus whatever doubts I might have, and I hit “send.” Then I wait. I think the subject line tells them enough that they each tend to answer rather quickly. It probably also helps that I always listen to their advice. I have not yet ignored the No Committee’s vote. That is, if they say no to me, I say no to the opportunity. Seriously. As I said, these are people who care deeply about me, and care less about my ambition or my insecurities which drive me to say yes more than I should. The one time in 2015 when I didn’t ask their advice, I said yes to something I regret saying yes to! And once, I sent them information about an opportunity that I didn’t want to take, and they outvoted me and each told me that I had to do it – and can you believe they were right??? Doing that thing has paid off in ways I surely couldn’t anticipate at the time.
I wrote post last year about the challenge of saying ‘no’ that got quite a bit of attention and some good comments, building on some remarks by Rob Kitchin.
Leading actors film new Shakespeare Solos series for The Guar
dian.
Adrian Lester as Hamlet, Roger Allum as King Lear, Eileen Atkins as Emilia, and more.
The Guardian also has a useful round-up of productions for this 400th anniversary year.
Michael Hodges analyses Eyal Weizman‘s Forensic Architecture research agency at Wired UK.
Thanks to Derek Gregory’s Geographical Imaginations blog for the link.
Ed Soja died in the evening of Sunday November 1st, 2015, after an extended illness. His departure represents a huge loss to his many friends and colleagues both here in Los Angeles and all over the world. Ed was in every sense larger than life. He had an imposing physical presence and an enormous personality. He was also gifted with an extraordinarily fertile mind that took him persistently to the intellectual frontiers of geography, planning and social enquiry generally. His astonishing (one of Ed’s favorite words) verbal capacities served him well not only in his written work, but also in his more direct interaction with others, from his inspired teaching to public debate. His way with words seemed to be virtually inexhaustible and sometimes, to be frank, a bit overpowering.
