Progressive Geographies

Daniel Defert, « Je crois au temps… », Propos recueillis par Guillaume Bellon, Recto/Verso, n° 1, Juin 2007.
Update August 2025: This is now only available on the Wayback machine. Link in title above

Daniel Defert, qui a partagé la vie de Foucault pendant plus de vingt ans, est aujourd’hui propriétaire de l’ensemble des notes et manuscrits laissés par le philosophe au moment de sa mort. Lourd héritage, marqué par le sceau de l’interdit : Foucault, qui répétait souvent à son entourage : « Ne me faites pas le coup de Max Brod avec Kafka », avait en effet pris soin de préciser sur son testament : « Pas de publication posthume ». Deux grands chantiers d’édition ont pourtant été menés depuis sa disparition en juin 1984 : d’abord le recueil des Dits et écrits, qui regroupe les articles, entretiens, ou conférences donnés par l’auteur, ainsi que la…

by Andy Merrifield, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Geography, University of Manchester

“The form of a city changes quicker, alas, than the human heart”

— Baudelaire

“I am tempted to the belief that what are called necessary institutions are only institutions to which one is accustomed, and that in matters of social constitution the field of possibilities is much wider than people living within each society imagine”

— de Tocqueville

In a remarkable series of essays, bundled together under the rubric Paris sous tension (La fabrique, Paris, 2011), popular historian and organic intellectual Eric Hazan sings a paean for his hometown under fire, his Paris under tension; the pressure gauge is edging toward danger level and seems about to blow anytime. Hazan, who trained as a cardiologist and in the 1970s worked as a surgeon in poor Palestinian refugee camps in the Lebanon, now fronts the Left publishing house he…

You wait almost 35 years for a special issue on anarchist geographies, and then two arrive at once… Antipode‘s ‘Anarchist Geographies‘ came out late last year (you can see one of the guest editors, Simon Springer, talking about it here) and our colleagues at ACME have just released ‘Anarchist and Autonomous Marxist Geographies‘, guest edited by Nathan Clough and Renata Blumberg. It looks like there are some great open access papers, including contributions from Antipode authors Farhang Rouhani, Mark Purcell and Nathan himself, and one from our very own Nik Heynen.

For more on autonomy, check out our recent symposium, organised by Antipode editor Paul Chatterton, ‘Autonomy: The Struggle for Survival, Self-Management and the Common‘, featuring papers from John Holloway, Chris Carlsson and Francesca Manning, Massimo De Angelis, Gustavo Esteva, Jai Sen, and the Free Association.