Begins in German, and then goes into English – follow the link for the rest.
for the rest of his “short discourse on the consequences of the separation of power and politics” go to:
https://www.ici-berlin.org/docu/critchley/?tx_bddbflvvideogallery_pi1=2
David Beer’s Punk Sociology forthcoming in January.
Thomas Nail reflects on the politics of the mask at the Huffington Post (reposted at critical-theory.com). You can also read my piece ‘V for Visibility‘ online.
Howard Caygill, On Resistance (see also Jacqueline Rose’s review here); Carl Schmitt’s Dictatorship; and Charlotte Heath-Kelly’s Politics of Violence.
At Sage Connection, some useful advice on journal publishing. Well worth a read – even experienced people miss some of these things. Here’s one answer:
8. What should a person submitting an article for consideration NEVER do?
I think you can probably glean from the above, but never send your full article to the editor outside of the submission process; never be rude to an editor; never try to find out who is reviewing your article; never assume you know who is reviewing your article – as I’ve heard from nearly every editor, likely, you are wrong even if you are sure you’re right; and if your article has been rejected, never email the editor immediately after receiving a rejection. Even if you have questions or feel like there was a major issue in the process, take at least a week and then reread the decision letter. If you still feel like you should write an email, have a diplomatic colleague review it before hitting “send.” And never, ever submit your paper to multiple journals at the same time. Wait for a rejection from one before submitting to another.
Durham’s International Boundaries Research Unit has the story of the ICJ’s judgement on a dispute between Cambodia and Thailand that hit the news a few years ago.
In a unanimous Judgment delivered on 11 November 2013, the International Court of Justice decided that it had jurisdiction over Cambodia’s 2011 Request for interpretation of the Court’s 1962 Judgment which found that the Temple of Preah Vihear is situated in territory under the sovereignty of Cambodia, and ruled that the area under Cambodian sovereignty is “the whole territory of the promontory of Preah Vihear”. [continues]
A good piece on books and their impact on our lives and homes.
A really interesting conversation between Butler and West on the tenth anniversary of Said’s death. Thanks to Sławek Królak for the link.
Duke University Press have a page up for Gastón R. Gordillo‘s new book Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction. Little there yet, beyond an August 2014 publication date, and this endorsement from Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing:
At the edges of the dreamscapes put forward by the state and capital, Gastón R. Gordillo shows us haunted places where phantoms and curses join human bones and broken bricks: rubble. The Argentine Chaco becomes a magical landscape wrapped in multiple pasts and presents. Simultaneously erudite and evocative, Rubble remakes the stories we tell about knowledge and history—and the legacy of violent conquest from the Spanish empire to the soy boom.
In the meantime, check out his blog at spaceandpolitics – some posts in Spanish; some in English. One of the things I am hoping to find time for soon is to start asking him some questions as an interview for the Society and Space open site.
Early Modern Literary Geographies is a new book series with Oxford University Press, under the editorship of Julie Sanders and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. I’m delighted to be part of their advisory board. Here’s the series description:
Influenced by the work of cultural and human geographers, literary scholars have started to attend to the ways in which early modern people constructed their senses of the world out of interactions among places, spaces, and embodied practices. Early Modern Literary Geographies will feature innovative research monographs and agenda-setting essay collections that partake of this “spatial turn.” The term “literary geographies” is to be understood capaciously: we invite submissions on any form of early modern writing that engages with the topics of space, place, landscape and environment. Although English literature is at its center, Early Modern Literary Geographies will feature scholarship that abuts a range of disciplines, including geography, history, performance studies, art history, musicology, archaeology and cognitive science. Subjects of inquiry might include cartography or chorography; historical phenomenology and sensory geographies; body and environment; mobility studies; histories of travel or perambulation; regional and provincial literatures; urban studies; performance environments; sites of memory and cognition; ecocriticism; and oceanic or new blue studies.
