Progressive Geographies

Speculations V out – Aesthetics in the 21st Century

Posted on May 16, 2014 by stuartelden

The latest issue of Speculations is out – on Aesthetics in the 21st Century. Essays by Steven Shaviro, Sjoerd van Tuinen, Graham Harman, Claire Colebrook and many others.

Free to download or paperback to buy here.

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The Israeli ID-System and Palestinian Segregation – a powerful visualisation

Posted on May 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Visualising Palestine have done it again – a really powerful representation of the Israeli ID-System and Palestinian Segregation. Thanks to Léopold Lambert for the link.

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University of Sydney conference on Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek, 15-16 August 2014

Posted on May 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Forthcoming workshop at the University of Sydney on Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek – ‘Questioning the Utopian Springs of Market Economy’ and will take place across 15 and 16 August 2014. More details here.

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Provocations of the Present: What Culture for What Geography? – 6th Doreen Massey event

Posted on May 15, 2014 by stuartelden

6th annual Doreen Massey event at the Open University – “Provocations of the Present: What Culture for What Geography?”

The Geography Departments of the Open University and Royal Holloway, University of London are delighted to announce that the 6th Doreen Massey Annual Event will take place on Friday 6 June 2014 at the Open University in Milton Keynes. This year’s theme is the role of cultural geography in the contemporary moment.

In his book Maps of Meaning (1989) Peter Jackson set out an agenda for the ‘new cultural geography’ that was firmly committed to bringing together issues of culture and politics through an engagement between geography and cultural theory. In the 25 years since its publication cultural geography has, arguably, come to dominate human geography. Theorisations of production of culture as production of space have formed the basis for addressing a variety of ‘issues’ including race, gender, nation, nature and culture.

Today those provocations for culturally attuned spatial thinking have been significantly reframed. Issues such as the environment, mobility, globalisation, liberalisation, security, sexuality and cultural intolerance have become more prominent political issues while other concerns have faded away. Cultural geography has also transformed, as too have the media and modalities of politics and political debate. How do we understand culture within this context and what is the role of cultural geography in the politics of the present? How will geography as a discipline be shaped by cultural geography? This event brings together some of the key thinkers in cultural geography in order to address these questions.

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Hannah Arendt movie – trailer and a few thoughts

Posted on May 15, 2014 by stuartelden

I finally watched the Hannah Arendt movie yesterday. In some parts it’s flawed – especially the flashback scenes to her time at Freiburg University, and the affair with Heidegger – but other parts are powerful and thoughtful. It mainly focuses on the Adolf Eichmann trial, blending documentary footage with the film. I liked that it was in multiple languages, with subtitles. It’s especially good on the controversy following her book on the trial, and the complicated relationship with Hans Jonas was interesting. Worth watching if you can.

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Martin Heidegger interviewed by a Buddhist Monk on German Television (English subtitles)

Posted on May 15, 2014 by stuartelden

This is a rather strange interview, which Heidegger appears to have scripted in advance and to be reading off notes. Thanks to Elena Loizidou for the link (via Open Culture) – click on cc at the bottom if the subtitles don’t appear.

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Wonderful photographs of abandoned places

Posted on May 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Many more here.

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Editorial Team Sought for New AAG Journal ‘GeoHumanities’

Posted on May 14, 2014 by stuartelden

The Association of American Geographers seeks applications and nominations for a team of two co-editors for a new AAG journal, to be published by Routledge titled GeoHumanities. The co-editors will be appointed for a four-year editorial term that will commence December 1, 2014. We anticipate that the team will be comprised of one editor from Geography and one from a Humanities discipline.

The aim of the journal is to draw on and further explore the multifaceted scholarly conversations between geography and the humanities that have been evolving over the past decade. As such, we anticipate that the journal will serve as a home for the critical and creative interdisciplinary work of artists, authors, historians, geographers, literary and feminist theorists, environmentalists, philosophers and others working across a broad spectrum of disciplines, and at scales from the personal and local to the international and global.

More details here.

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