Kostas Axelos, On Marx and Heidegger – forthcoming with Meson Press, translated by Kenneth Mills and edited by Stuart Elden

As I’ve mentioned here before, in recent months I’ve edited a translation, compiled the notes, and written an introduction for a forthcoming book.

The publisher is Meson Press (a new publisher based at Lüneborg University) and their website is now available, so I’m able to say that it’s Kostas Axelos’s book Einführung in ein künftiges Denken: Über Marx und Heidegger, Max Niemeyer: Tübingen, 1966. This will appear as a book, and open access e-book, later this year – probably September or October.

I’ve long found Axelos’s work inspiring, and interviewed him for Radical Philosophy in 2004. I’ve also written book chapters about his links with Henri Lefebvre and his editing of the Arguments journal and book series. I have wanted to get more of his work translated for some time, so was very pleased to be involved with this project; though it’s a shame it didn’t happen while he was alive. Axelos is relatively little-known in English-speaking debates – with only one of his books and a few articles previously translated (bibliography here). I’m hoping this book will be a contribution to making him a little better known.

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The Past, Present and Future of Drones in the U.S. – the al-Awlaki memo and an infographic

Thanks to Philippe Theophanidis for alerting me that the official government memo that was used in the targeting and killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki has just been released, and for pointing to the analysis at NPR.

This makes this infographic, recently sent to me by Mike Delacroix, even more relevant. Click on the image for a higher resolution version at the host site.

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Source: CriminalJusticeDegreeHub.com

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Interview with Simon Critchley and excerpt from The Hamlet Doctrine in Berfrois

moscow-photosInterview with Simon Critchley at Berfrois, plus an excerpt from his co-authored book The Hamlet Doctrine – via the Verso blog.

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Pratt reviews McDowell’s Working Lives

Gerry Pratt reviews Linda McDowell’s new book on the Society and Space open site.

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Srinivasan and Kasturirangan commentary – ‘Impact and the Social Science Imagination’

A commentary on the impact agenda in Higher Education on the Society and Space open site.

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Graham Burchell – Michel Foucault, La société punitive: an editorial curiosity

Graham Burchell, the translator of all-but-one of Foucault’s Collège de France lecture courses, has sent me a note on small but important ‘curiosity’ in the course he is currently translating: La société punitive. I’ve put up the whole of his note in a page on this site, as part of the ‘Foucault Resources‘ area.

The note concerns Foucault’s citation of Beccaria in the course summary. It’s a minor point, but a good example of why checking references back to original sources is almost always worthwhile. My thanks to Graham for sharing this point with Progressive Geographies.

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Comments on territory for the Ice-Law workshop at Durham – audio recording

Screenshot (3)I spent the second half of last week back in Durham at a workshop organised by Phil Steinberg on Ice Law or, to give it its full title – The IBRU Workshop on International Law, State Sovereignty, and the Ice-Land-Water Interface. I used to work closely with IBRU – the International Boundaries Research Unit – at Durham when I was there, serving as Academic Director between 2004-2007 and 2011-13. Among other things, the workshop was good for seeing how well IBRU is thriving with Phil as the Director.

The plan is that all participants to the workshop write a short summary of how their work contributes to the project, and I think these will all be posted online as the next stage in this work. For the moment, I’ll simply post the audio recording of my comments to one of the sessions. Much of this will be familiar to people who know my work on territory – both the historical, political and conceptual work on this topic – but that was really the point: a brief primer for people from a range of disciplines including anthropology and international law.

 

 

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One million views of Progressive Geographies

According to WordPress, there have now been just over a million views of Progressive Geographies since the blog started in 2010. That’s page views, not visits. The map below – which shows visits from October 2013 – gives a good indication of the geographical spread. Many thanks to everyone for reading.

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The theft of Native Americans’ land, in one animated map

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University of Georgia historian Claudio Saunt on “Europeans’ violent seizing of Native Americans’ land“.

To supplement his new book, West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, Saunt created an interactive map showing the decline of Indian homelands from 1776 to 1887. Along with Slate’s Rebecca Onion, he turned that map into a GIF, showing just how rapidly European-Americans took what amounted to over 1.5 billion acres.

Be sure to check out the interactive map rather than just the compressed animation (thanks to Deb Cowen, via Vox, for the link.)

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The Clubs that Connect the World Cup – New York Times visualisations

The New York Times has some very good visualisations/animations of the players and their clubs that make up the national teams at the World Cup. (Clicking on the screenshot below takes you to the interactive page.)

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