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Aesthetics as a weapon of mass domestication
On June 20th I will be participating in ‘Anesthetized: aesthetics as a weapon of mass domestication,’ a week-long seminar organized in SUR—the school of arts of Madrid’s Círculo de Bellas Artes—by Lucía Jalón and David Sánchez Usanos. More information about the course can be found here (in Spanish), and in the (very interesting) provisional program.…
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Henri Lefebvre, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche or the Realm of Shadows (Verso, February 2020)
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies: I’m pleased to be able to share the news that Henri Lefebvre’s book Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche or the Realm of Shadows is forthcoming in English translation with Verso in early 2020. It’s not yet up on the Verso site, but their US distributors have it listed, and it’s in some online stores.…
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Henrik Ernstson and Erik Swyngedouw (eds.) Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities
Henrik Ernstson and Erik Swyngedouw (eds.) Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities, out today with Routledge — extraordinary set of contributions! Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities centres on how to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory theory and political activism. Across its theoretical and empirical chapters, written by…
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Intervention – “Changing the Question from ‘The End of Austerity?’ to ‘What Ends in Austerity?’”
Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org: Ruth Raynor School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape, Newcastle University Ruth.Raynor@Newcastle.ac.uk A short break from ceaseless punditry on “Brexit” was given over to chancellor Phillip Hammond’s declaration of the “end of austerity” in the UK. Of course this comment on the autumn budget, made at the end of October, has…
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Advance copy of Shakespearean Territories (University of Chicago Press, 2018) received — Progressive Geographies
I’ve just received an advance copy of Shakespearean Territories (University of Chicago Press, 2018). The book has been a long time in production, and the final stages were delayed by paper shortages and printer problems in the US. I’ve been told that warehouse copies will follow, which usually the sign for when the book is […]…
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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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