This is interesting – a seven minute film showing London’s development over time. It relies on a rather-container model of what the city is today, and shows development within that bounded space, rather than wider networks, but it is nicely done and worth watching.
Thanks to Robert Tally for the link. [Update: It was created by the Bartlett School at UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis for English Heritage.]
One year teaching fellow post in IPE at Warwick – details here.
Thanks to David Murakami Wood for the link to this photo-essay on the ruined Panopticon in Cuba.
This is one of the better pieces I’ve read recently on Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’. In particular, it is good on how they fit within the structure of Heidegger’s thought as a whole, and especially his plans for posthumous publication. As Meyer notes, Heidegger planned this at a very young age – in his late 40s…
Peter Sloterdijk’s Globes – Spheres II: Macrospherology listed on Amazon. It’s not on the Semiotext(e) page yet, but is on the MIT Press page (they distribute the books). It will be published in October 2014, and comes in at 1048 pages. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for spotting this.
Antipode Foundation International Workshop Awards announced – good to see some of my Society and Space colleagues among the recipients.
Last week we announced the winners of 2014’s Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project Awards, and today we can reveal the recipients of our International Workshop Awards.
International Workshop Awards are intended to support radical geographers holding events (including conferences, workshops, seminar series, summer schools and action research meetings) that further radical analyses of geographical issues and engender the development of a new and better society. The Antipode Foundation encourages applications that are collaborative in nature: we want to fund work that leads to the exchange of ideas across disciplinary boundaries, countries and sectors, and to the building of relationships and productive partnerships.
We encourage participation and engagement, cooperation and co-enquiry, whether with fellow scholars, research groups, university departments, NGOs, think tanks or social movements. The Foundation also encourages initiatives that are adventurous, that explore the boundaries of established academic practice, and that trespass and disrupt disciplinary borders. We’d like to…
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A commentary on big data and critical data studies at the Society and Space open site.
A new review at the Society and Space open site – Alondra Nelson’s Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination.
A lecture by Peter Sloterdijk and then a discussion between Sloterdijk and Andrei Ujica on The Fall of the Romanov Empire – thanks to ANTHEM for the link. The lecture is in English, though the discussion is in German. I’ve embedded the film itself below.
Five apps I find really useful for my writing and blogging
David Harvey – Afterthoughts on Piketty’s Capital
Martin Heidegger interviewed by a Buddhist Monk on German Television (English subtitles)
David Harvey, Mapping a New Economy in The Chronicle Review
Wonderful photographs of abandoned places
Hannah Arendt movie – trailer and a few thoughts
