Author: asevillab
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Paul Chatterton – Unlocking Sustainable Cities: A Manifesto for Real Change
Paul Chatterton, Unlocking Sustainable Cities: A Manifesto for Real Change, forthcoming with Pluto this month. This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising inequality. This book highlights how cities are locked into unsustainable and damaging practices, and how…
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Historical Materialism 15th Annual Conference
Historical Materialism 15th Annual Conference – 8-11 November 2018, SOAS, London — via Progressive Geographies
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Extracurricular: Culler’s Theory of the Lyric
The last issue of Diacritics revolves around Jonathan Culler’s Theory of the Lyric (Harvard University Press, 2015, released in paperback in 2017), a book that has been demanding my attention for a while. Culler’s new ideas in his contribution to the special issue remind me that I desperately need some free time to finally read…
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David Harvey – A Companion to Marx’s Capital, complete edition (Verso, forthcoming November 2018)
Verso is publishing a new, complete edition of David Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital – out next month. In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming…
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Neil Faulkner – A Radical History of the World (Pluto, 2018)
Neil Faulkner, A Radical History of the World (London: Pluto, 2018), was released last month. History is a weapon. The powerful have their version of events, the people have another. And if we understand how the past was forged, we arm ourselves to change the future. This is the history of the struggle and revolution…
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Sonja Dümpelmann – Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin
Sonja Dümpelmann, Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin — Yale University Press, forthcoming January 2019 A fascinating and beautifully illustrated volume that explains what street trees tell us about humanity’s changing relationship with nature and the city Today, cities around the globe are planting street trees to mitigate…
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[Re]Form: New Investigations in Urban Form (video)
Recordings of a recent multidisciplinary symposium on urbanization at Harvard GSD, including amongst others papers by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Colin McFarlane and Kees Christiaanse. There is an interesting exchange between Aureli and Neil Brenner at the end of panel 1, dealing with the history of the urban grid vis-à-vis capitalist development, and the political implications…
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In memoriam: Fernando Roch
Como muchos lectores de este blog ya sabrán, hace tres semanas fallecía Fernando Roch Peña, catedrático emérito de la Escuela de Arquitectura de Madrid. Fernando fue una figura central en la formación de varias generaciones de urbanistas atraídos por una visión fundamentalmente política y social de la ciudad. Su ausencia, hoy, es proporcional al espacio…
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Interview with Stefan Kipfer – Gramsci as Geographer
Interview with Stefan Kipfer – Gramsci as Geographer in Historical Materialism (open access). Some interesting discussion of his relation to Lefebvre, among other themes. A French version of this interview was originally published at http://revueperiode.net/gramsci-geographe-entretien-avec-stefan-kipfer/ Your research interests include a recurrent focus on space, specifically urban questions as well as the spatial organization of relations…
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New Militant Cinema | Giancarlo Buonfino’s Totem
In 1968 Giancarlo Buonfino and others created the ‘New Militant Cinema’ Collective in the wake of the explosion of workers’ and students’ struggles in Italy. As far as I know the only film Buonfino and the collective made was Totem (1969) — the original version, embedded below, is available on YouTube. It took a whole…
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