Enowning shares the news from Bard College:
The marginalia in Hannah Arendt copy of Being and Time. Just a few underlinings. More here.
The disappointment, apart from the very few traces, is that this is of Being and Time in the Macquarrie and Robinson translation, not Sein und Zeit. That would be worth seeing.
Derek Gregory shares the text of his contribution to the ‘How We Write’ collection. Great stories and fascinating insights into the creative process.
At Stuart Elden‘s suggestion, I’ve been invited to join a collaborative project initiated and edited by Suzanne Akbaricalled ‘How we write‘: it’s an interdisciplinary collection of short essays each of which describes how we write (and emphatically not how you ought to write…).
It will be published in remarkably short order by Punctum Books as a free downloadable volume; the contributors are Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Michael Collins, Alexandra Gillespie, Alice Hutton Sharp, Asa Simon Mittman, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Maura Nolan, Rick Godden, Bruce Holsinger, Stuart Elden and Steve Mentz.
There’s certainly not one way of writing, and as I roughed out my contribution I realised through talking with friends that even in my own field(s) the variety of writing practices is enormous and seemingly endless. Trevor Barnes told me over lunch yesterday that he had once thought everyone wrote like him. It turns out that we have much in common – we both find…
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Phil Steinberg on Arctic seabed claims and the politics of mapping.
Following up on my recent blogpost on Russia’s Arctic seabed mapping, The Conversation has published a companion piece on some of the politics surrounding the map, its drawing, and its reception. The Conversation article integrates analysis of some of the recent (manufactured) controversy surrounding the Russian claim with reflections that I made earlier this year on the map’s seven-year history. 
For more on Russia’s recent claim and what it means (and doesn’t mean), see also this recent article in the New Scientist by the map’s designer, Martin Pratt.
Several new Antipode papers online, including Christian Parenti’s ‘The Environment Making State’.
It’s not quite the middle of August and the September issue of Antipode is out now! Antipode 47(4) really showcases critical geography at its very best: timely topics, engaged research, engaging writing…
We open with Christian Parenti’s 2013 Antipode AAG Lecture, The Environment Making State: Territory, Nature, and Value (which is open access; there’s a video of the lecture itself here); for more on the state’s “natures”, see the next paper, Infrastructure Nation: State Space, Hegemony, and Hydraulic Regionalism in Pakistan by Majed Akhter.
We’re pleased to present here a video abstract featuring Shannon Brincat and Damian Gerber talking about their paper, The Necessity of Dialectical Naturalism: Marcuse, Bookchin, and Dialectics in the Midst of Ecological Crises. Whilst primarily a theoretical analysis focused on the work of Marcuse and Bookchin, their paper, they contend, has important implications for ecological praxis. It exposes the ontological hole at the heart of the dominant (mis)conceptualisation…
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The audio recording of my 22 April 2015 AAG talk on ‘The Geophysics of Territory’ is available here (18 minutes). This was in sessions co-organised with Gastón Gordillo; Derek Gregory and Setha Low acted as discussants. The talk ranges across quite a range of questions and was intended to be a broad introduction to the theme before the other papers. I even manage to get some Shakespeare in at the end.
I then gave a slightly expanded version of the talk on 21 May 2015 as”Terrain, Territory, Volume“, at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, Graduate Center, CUNY. That talk was much more image-driven – the opening slide above is of the Golan Heights. Because it was more image focused, the audio doesn’t work so well alone. But the key points should be clear from the AAG paper.
Online resources to help students summarize journal articles and write critical reviews – some useful resources at Raul Pacheco-Vega’s blog.
The courses I teach tend to be very practical and applied. My teaching philosophy is founded on helping my students acquire employable skills. Writing solid, robust, concise and easy-to-read analytical summaries should be an acquired tool that they then can transfer to other fields. Politicians, bureaucrats and high-level people in government that I’ve talked to have always considered summarizing information a great tool that undergraduate and graduate education should provide. Yet, the online resources I found to help students summarize journal articles and write critical reviews left me wanting.
A host of new papers available online, all currently open access.
Jeremy Crampton reports on his archival work into the history of cartography.
The Map Room at the British Library
Over the last couple of months I have been visiting various archives to access some great material relevant to the “Critical History.” In June I visited the Library of Congress (LoC) for a short trip, where I met with John Hessler and checked through the John Snyder papers. Snyder was an authority on map projections and his correspondence with Arthur Robinson on this topic is fascinating.
I was especially interested in the exchanges about the Peters projection, which will form one entry in the Critical History. Robinson was famously opposed to the work of Peters and said so (often) in print, more or less politely. (In letters he was a bit more forthright, calling it a “ridiculous display,” “dismissed him as a crackpot” etc).
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The Funambulist magazine – the new venture from Léopold Lambert to sit alongside his Funambulist blog and Archipelago podcast – was launched this week. Léopold kindly gave me a copy when I saw him in Paris earlier this month. The first issue is on the theme of Militarised Cities.
You can buy the first issue here; and subscription details for both the print and digital editions are here.
2 | INTRODUCTION: MILITARIZED CITIES
by Léopold Lambert
8 | BEIRUT: MAPPING SECURITY
by Mona Fawaz, Mona Harb & Ahmad Gharbieh
14 | LAHORE: ARCHITECTURE OF IN/SECURITY
by Sadia Shirazi
20 | CAIRO: A MILITARIZED LANDSCAPE
by Mohamed Elshahed
26 | OKLDCAAN: CAPITAL BUILDING OF THE OAKLAND SECURITY CLOUD
by Demilit (Javier Arbona, Bryan Finoki & Nick Sowers)
32 | JERUSALEM: DISMANTLING PHANTASMAGORIAS, CONSTRUCTING IMAGINARIES
by Nora Akawi
38 | ARCHIPELAGO: STATE OF EXCEPTION CITY
by Philippe Theophanidis
42 | PHOTOGRAPHY: THE CITY AND THE WALL
46 | STUDENTS: REVISING HISTORIES [building truth]
by James Martin
48 | STUDENTS: HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
by Zulaikha Ayub
50 | STUDENTS: EXPANSION OF MILITARY LANDSCAPES
by Maeve Elder & Ylan Vo
52 | TRADUCTIONS FRANCAISES DES ARTICLES
