Progressive Geographies

A forum of papers on the US carceral society at the Society and Space open site.

A virtual theme issue on prisons at the Society and Space open site (papers open access until November).

Very interesting and superbly illustrated interview at BLDGBLOG with Ron Blakey:

The paleo-tectonic maps of retired geologist Ronald Blakey are mesmerizing and impossible to forget once you’ve seen them. Catalogued on his website Colorado Plateau Geosystems, these maps show the world adrift, its landscapes breaking apart and reconnecting again in entirely new forms, where continents are as temporary as the island chains that regularly smash together to create them, on a timescale where even oceans that exist for tens of millions of years can disappear leaving only the subtlest of geological traces.

With a particular emphasis on North America and the U.S. Southwest—where Blakey still lives, in Flagstaff, Arizona—these visually engaging reconstructions of the Earth’s distant past show how dynamic a planet we live on, and imply yet more, unrecognizable changes ahead.

Some interesting discussion of the RGS-IBG sessions on capitalism and the earth at Seeing the Woods.

good story about Bradley Garrett in The Guardian – advance publicity for his excellent book Explore Everything

Foucault Studies is pleased to announce the publication of issue 16

A Special Issue on Foucault and Feminism
guest edited by Cressida J. Heyes

Issue 16 also includes:

3 original articles on the topics of:
Foucault’s reading of Nietzsche’s notion of power
Foucault, Althusser and the Marxist tradition
Stultitia and patient education.

10 book reviews

a translation of Michel Senellart’s article “Machiavelli Facing the Challenge of Gouvernementalité.”

Foucault reads and discusses Raymond Roussel.