Two forthcoming conferences at Warwick, both in the Department of History – one this year; one next. The call for papers for the second will be issued later.
Geographies of Man: Environmental Influence from Antiquity to the Enlightenment – 16th May 2014
Ruling Climate: The theory and practice of environmental governmentality 1500 – 1800 – 16th May 2015.
I’m staying on East 12th Street (corner of Broadway) for the next few weeks. I am right opposite Strand Books… There is a grill over the window, hence the somewhat murky image.
Sad news about Ernesto Laclau, who has died of a heart attack while in Seville for a lecture (report in Spanish, via Elena Loizidou).
Update: there is an English-language story in the Buenos Aires Herald; and another Spanish story in La Nacion.
Given the subtitle of the book – Philosophy in the Making – the analysis was always going to be outstripped by the work being produced and translated. So it is good news that Graham Harman’s book on Quentin Meillassoux is going to be reissued with new material. More details here.
Peter Gratton has been busy with reviews recently…
A review of Christina Howells and Gerald Moore (eds.), Stiegler and Technics at NDPR
A review article at Berfrois on Derrida’s The Death Penalty, Vol. 1
And a review article in Symposium on Adrian Johnston’s Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism
All the reviews are available open access.
David Harvey discusses contemporary capitalism
David Harvey talks to Aaron Bastani on Novara TV about contemporary capitalism, crisis, social movements and his new book.
At the Fordham website, Babette Babich, Peter Trawny, and Roger Berkowitz discuss Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ (via Enowning). Michael Inwood discusses the books in The Telegraph (well, little about the books, more about his work and legacy generally).
Verso have updated their suggestions for an alternative undergraduate reading list. It would be a very well-read undergraduate to complete this list.
Also worth mentioning that their excellent sale – 50% off many books, free postage, plus the bundled e-book, if available – ends on Monday 14th April. Bundling paper and e-copies is a very good move, which I think many more publishers should follow.
I’m sitting at Tampa airport, waiting to fly to Newark to begin six weeks in New York. The Association of American Geographers meeting is over for another year. It was a good meeting, beginning – for me – with a very generous ‘author meets critics’ session on The Birth of Territory, and ending with receiving the Meridian award for the book. I’m very grateful for both, especially to Claudio Minca and Jeremy Crampton for organising, and Juliet Fall, Alec Murphy, Joe Bryan and Anssi Paasi for speaking in the session on the book. Juliet’s Lego and Playmobile movie presentation stole the show. I was delighted that my predecessor as Society and Space editor, Michael Dear, received the Globe book award for his Why Walls Won’t Work, and to be there as Alec Murphy was given a lifetime achievement award and Sara Koopman received an award for public engagement. [Update: pictures from the lunch are here]
In between these events I was one of the respondents to John Agnew’s Dialogues in Human Geography lecture – a response that was described as ‘sparky’ (this will all appear in the journal in due course); attended some very interesting sessions including ones on land and territory disputes in South America; caught up with good friends; made a few new ones; had meetings with publishers about future projects; and enjoyed the Tampa sunshine. Sorry to all the friends I only saw in passing in lobbies or meeting rooms and didn’t get to talk to. Chicago in 2015…
A chance to get some Verso books cheaply…
