Progressive Geographies

Via Peter Hopkins:

This series of papers (see list below) are free to download until the end of September by following this link: http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/est/cgpc-jan-monk-lectures

Gentrification, assassination and forgetting in Mexico: a feminist Marxist tale http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2014.882650
* Volume 21 Issue 1 (2014)
* Melissa W. Wright

Storytelling and co-authorship in feminist alliance work: reflections from a journey http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2012.731383
* Volume 20 Issue 1 (2013)
* Richa Nagar

The intimate politics of secularism and the headscarf: the mall, the neighborhood, and the public square in Istanbul http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2011.633428
* Volume 19 Issue 1 (2012)
* Banu Gökarıksel

A feminist project of belonging for the Anthropocene http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2011.535295
* Volume 18 Issue 1 (2011)
* J.K. Gibson-Graham

Gender and mobility: new approaches for informing sustainability http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09663690903498225
* Volume 17 Issue 1 (2010)
* Susan Hanson

Circulating sadness: witnessing Filipina mothers’ stories of family separation http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09663690802574753
* Volume 16 Issue 1 (2009)
* Geraldine Pratt

Bad…

The long awaited – it’s been forthcoming since the 1990s – translation of Martin Heidegger’s 1934-35 lecture course Hölderlin’s Hymns “Germania” and “The Rhine”, is due out in September 2014. The translators are William McNeill and Julia Ireland, also responsible for the translation of Heidegger’s course on Hölderlin’s Hymn ‘The Ister’. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link.

Martin Heidegger’s 1934–1935 lectures on Friedrich Hölderlin’s hymns “Germania” and “The Rhine” are considered the most significant among Heidegger’s lectures on Hölderlin. Coming at a crucial time in his career, the text illustrates Heidegger’s turn toward language, art, and poetry while reflecting his despair at his failure to revolutionize the German university and his hope for a more profound revolution through the German language, guided by Hölderlin’s poetry. These lectures are important for understanding Heidegger’s changing relation to politics, his turn toward Nietzsche, his thinking about the German language, and his breakthrough…

There was a great sadness this morning at the conference that Michel Serres’ health has not permitted him to travel to Utrecht in person, but also a deep thankfulness and appreciation that, despite his failing health, he had taken the time to pre-record his address. The discussion that followed his paper (recorded at his house in Vincennes and played to the conference on a series of television screens around the meeting room in St Martin’s Cathedral, pictured below) certainly lacked for nothing in terms of liveliness.

Serres delivered his address in French, and English translation (entitled ‘Information and Thinking’) was handed round to the delegates.

In the address Serres elaborates upon a theme that punctuates his work from the Hermes series onward: information. It strikes me that Serres’ notion of information and communication circulating between all entities (human, animal, vegetable and mineral) could be interestingly and profitably compared with Jean-Luc…