I mentioned a few months ago that a new translation of von Uexküll’s A Foray into the World of Animals was coming out. Details of the translation here.
There are a range of reactions now that it’s available – here (via Charles Wolfe on APPS, who notes he is doing a review for NDPR), here and here.
News that future marches may be banned (probably the first and last time I will link to The Telegraph). But as John Protevi notes, there are some unpleasant overtones here.
A letter from Middlesex staff and students, which mainstream media have refused to publish.
Alex at Experimental Geographies has a roundup here.
And finally a post on having no confidence in the NUS leadership, here.
I posted details of these two conferences before.
The Political Life of Things (3 Dec, Imperial War Museum, London) – sound archive here, including Jane Bennett and many others
Vertical Geographies, Royal Holloway, London, 8 December 2010, including Stephen Graham, here
Thanks to Martin and Chris for the links.
This is the BBC interview with Jody McIntyre that has produced such anger.
Lots of people complained. The BBC has apparently responded – details here; another reply here. China Mieville responds here.
The Social and Cultural Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers has issued the following statement which they have asked me to pass on…
The committee of the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (RGS-IBG) would like to express their personal support for the geographers and other students who have sought to open up creative spaces to challenge the inevitability of such rapid and deep public spending cuts in higher education. Our position is that creative, innovative thinking is critical to social and ecological justice, and the stripping away of the intellectual capacity of higher education, through the removal of public funding for teaching and its replacement with a market for students and for knowledge, is detrimental to the achievement of more equitable ways of thinking and living.
‘To illustrate the importance of knowledge sharing, I would like to tell you a little lesson in economics: I have a block of butter, and you have three Euros. If we proceed to do a transaction, you will, in the end, have a block of butter, and I will have three Euros. We are dealing with a zero sum game: nothing happens from this exchange. But in the exchange of knowledge, during teaching, the game is not one of zero sum as more parties profit from the exchange: if you know a theorem and teach it to me, at the end of the exchange, we both know it. In this knowledge exchange there is no equilibrium at all, but a terrific growth which economics does not know. Teachings are the bearers of an unbelievable treasure knowledge which multiplies and is the treasure of all humanity’. (Michel Serres)
<http://www.ceras-projet.org/index.php?id=1541> .Our thanks to Angela Last <http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/> for the quote and translation. We welcome postings of further links and comments.
Reposted from here.
March 2011 sees the launch issue of the journal Dialogues in Human Geography. I was sceptical of the need for yet another disciplinary-specific journal, but the editors do seem to be trying to do something different, and I’m involved in a couple of the early issues.
The purpose of this post is to say you can sign up for three years worth of free access here.
Bradley L. Garrett offers some interesting, useful, and sometimes funny, advice here.
It’s been up online for some time, but this article is now finally published, and you can find the version with page numbers etc. here.
It’s strange that I wrote this as the first thing within my three-year Leverhulme major research fellowship, and it’s coming out as I come to the end – both of the time and the project. It did take me a while to send it off – I gave spoken versions of this paper many times before I felt it sat quite right – but it still feels a long time coming out.
Some interesting advice from Tim Morton here – a sequence of posts so scroll down to see more.
Peter Hallward on the protests last week – here.
