Month: November 2014
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Sonja Dümpelmann en la ETSAM
El próximo jueves tendremos en la ETSAM a Sonja Dümpelmann, profesora del departamento de arquitectura del paisaje de la GSD de Harvard, presentando su último libro Flights of Imagination: Aviation, Landscape, Design, publicado recientemente por University of Virginia Press. La charla se enmarca en el ciclo de conferencias asociadas al Máster en Planeamiento Urbano y…
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News of Erik Swyngedouw’s new book. Liquid Power: Contested hydro-modernities in 20th century Spain
Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt: An advanced description of Erik Swyngedouw’s new book from the MIT Press website. Looks like the book is due out in the new year at some point: “In this book, Erik Swyngedouw explores how water becomes part of the tumultuous processes of modernization and development. Using the experience of…
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La censura de los sueños | Žižek en LSE
Slavoj Žižek se despacha a gusto en la London School of Economics en otra nueva vuelta de tuerca a uno de sus temas clásicos: la crítica de la ideología vista desde su particular perspectiva. Más información y el enlace al podcast en la página de la institución.
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New Antipode papers available now
Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org: The first two issues of Antipode 47 have now been sent to the publishers. They’ll be available in Wiley Online Library in early 2015; the papers, though, can be read now. There are great essays in both issues on neoliberal natures, new materialisms and autonomist Marxism; on local food and urban…
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Review essay of Branch, Sassen, Scott and Vigneswaran on historical and political understandings of territory, forthcoming in Society and Space
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies: I have a review essay of four books coming out in Society and Space in issue 1 next year. The books are Jordan Branch, The Cartographic State; Saskia Sassen, Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy; Tom Scott, The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600 and Darshan Vigneswaran, Territory, Migration, and the Evolution of the International System. The review is…
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