Progressive Geographies

Hélène Blais’ Mirages de la carte reviewed at the Society and Space open site.

Wendy Brown, David Held, Claire Colebrook, Elizabeth Ferris keynote lectures live-streamed from Durham conference on Human migration and the environment: futures, politics, invention.

Durham University – 29 June – 1 July 2015.

Conference keynote lectures live-streamed on YouTube: http://www.durhamconference.eu/keynotes/

Professor David Held – Monday 29 June 9:30 am (GMT)

Professor Wendy Brown – Monday 29 June 4:45 pm (GMT)

Professor Claire Colebrook – Tuesday 30 June 4:45 pm (GMT)

Elizabeth Ferris – Wednesday 1 July 9:00 am (GMT)

Political Geography seeks two new Associate Editors – details here.

• When Heidegger met Lacan
• Foucault’s Heterotopia and Benjamin’s Arcade Project – a discussion by Peter Johnson
• Geography blogs – a list, and a discussion of ‘why blog?’
• Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger – now available open access from Meson Press
• Simon Springer and David Harvey debate Marxism, anarchism and Geography
• Foucault, About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980
• Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre?
• King John at the Globe – the text, the Magna Carta, land and the question of territory
• Editing Henri Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy – doing his endnotes properly
• Foucault’s Last Decade and Foucault: The Birth of Power

Thanks to ‘Sig Laser’ for sending me details of an interesting site-specific production of Shakespeare’s Antony in Cleopatra. The production is “a story of occupation, set on the pre-confederation plains of Manitoba during the fur trade”. From the accounts in The Winnipeg Free Press comes this description of director Sarah Kitz’s vision:

Her idea — which will debut at SIR’s outdoor home in St. Norbert tonight — was to bring the story to the Red River in pre-Confederation times; Cleopatra and her Egyptians would be represented by indigenous Canadians, while Antony and the Romans would be portrayed as European fur traders.

“It shows us how relevant the play still is, because we are living in the colonial after-effects in this country,” she says. “Winnipeg predominately, and Canada at large, is really waking up to this conversation, so the timing of this show is quite spectacular in that way.

“It’s one more example of how Shakespeare can continue to be relevant when we are able to use his play as a frame for what is happening now.”

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Antony & Cleopatra short preview video.