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Hasta luego… Punto y aparte en ‘multipliciudades’
Hace casi ocho años que comencé a escribir a este blog, en enero de 2012. El material aquí vertido, tras casi 600 entradas, es un retrato del periplo recorrido durante este tiempo. La continuidad de ese relato sólo es obvia para mí. Detrás de la aparente heterogeneidad (¡multiplicidad!) de los materiales está el hilo de…
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Andy Merrifield | La nueva cuestión urbana, traducción al castellano
La editorial Katakrak ha publicado recientemente La nueva cuestión urbana, de Andy Merrifield, traducción del original publicado en 2014 por Pluto Press. La nueva cuestión urbana es una exuberante aventura a través de nuestra condición urbana global actual, que traza las conexiones entre la teoría urbana radical y el activismo político. Desde los intentos de…
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The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, The City and Urban Society
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies: The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, The City and Urban Society – edited by Michael E. Leary-Owhin and John P. McCarthy The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre,The City and Urban Society is the first edited book to focus on Lefebvre’s urban theories and ideas from a global perspective, making use…
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Jane Hutton | Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements
Jane Hutton’s Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements, is out with Routledge. I have been following Hutton’s work for a long time and I was eager to read this elaboration of her previous research on the relational political ecology of uneven material flows. Here is the summary: How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials…
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Guy Standing | Plunder of the Commons (Pelican, 2019)
A review of Guy Standing’s latest book, Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth (Pelican, 2019) on David Bollier’s blog. Here are two nice bookends for understanding British politics over the past eight centuries: The Charter of the Forest at one end, which from 1215 (until 1971!) guaranteed commoners the right to…
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Camilo José Vergara | Harlem: the unmaking of a ghetto
In this talk at CUNY Chilean photographer and writer Camilo José Vergara presents the graphic material and stories that went into Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto (University of Chicago Press, 2013), his fascinating photographic record of the transformation and gentrification of the neighborhood during four decades. The book was a follow-up of Vergara’s earlier,…
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Stanek | Architecture in Global Socialism
Łukasz Stanek’s Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War will be out with Princeton University Press early next year, and is already available to pre-order on the publisher’s website. The book is a much-anticipated development of Stanek’s groundbreaking forays into the connections of socialist Europe and…
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Marx’s “Dangerous Classes”
Originally posted on andy merrifield: Most Marxists know that Marx infamously dismisses the lumpenproletariat — those band of “vagabonds, criminals, prostitutes,” “the demoralised, the ragged,” swindlers and tricksters, ragpickers and pickpockets, tinkers and beggars (all Marx’s words). These ruffians, he says, “dwelling in the sphere of pauperism,” are nothing but “the deadweight of the industrial…
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Introduction to The Funambulist by its Readers: Political Geographies from Chicago and Elsewhere — THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE
Dear readers, here is the introduction written for the book The Funambulist by its Readers: Political Geographies from Chicago and Elsewhere, a book commissioned by the curators of the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019, which collects 20 articles we published in our 22 first issues, as well as five new texts by Chicago-based activists. You may… via…
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