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La metropolitanización del territorio | Entrevista a Francesco Indovina
El pasado verano el Club de Debates Urbanos concedió su premio anual al urbanista italiano Francesco Indovina. En aquel momento la revista Minerva, del Círculo de Bellas Artes, me invitó a entrevistarle. La conversación (breve y, como verán, telemática) se publica ahora en abierto en su web. No soy un gran fan de Indovina, aunque…
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Harvey visualizes capital at Oxford
Here’s the video of Harvey’s talk at Oxford a couple of weeks ago, again focusing on his ‘Marx project’ and related adventures in the theory of value. Although his presentations are frequently based on implicit conceptual diagrams it’s relatively rare to see him using actual slides and graphs as he does here. So much to…
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A new issue and video abstract – “Sovereign Power, Biopower, and the Reach of the West in an Age of Diaspora-Centred Development”
Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org: Today we sent our third issue of 2017 to press. Antipode 49(3) is a brilliant snapshot of critical geography today, offering contributions on gentrification and cinema; energy politics and the state; alternative food economies; activism and affect; gender and citizenship; global climate politics; poverty and the practice of philanthropy; Brutalist architecture; mining and conservation; the asylum-seeking body; suburbs and capital accumulation;…
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Neo-nationalism, left and right
Marco Antonsich has an interesting short piece on new forms of nationalism at the Society & Space website, fundamentally in relation to emerging right-wing configurations thereof (link below). I feel the picture would be much more complicated if earlier or alternative waves of nationalist discourse were considered, such as those coming from Latin America in…
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Foucault: The Birth of Power (2017)
Originally posted on Foucault News: Stuart Elden, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Polity, 2017 Michel Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a methodological treatise, the latter a call to arms. What…
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Intervention Symposium – “Did We Accomplish the Revolution in Geographic Thought?”
Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org: 44 years ago we published David Harvey’s essay “Revolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary Theory in Geography and the Problem of Ghetto Formation”. Taking geographers to task, demanding some serious self-criticism, it was subject to its fair share of discussion and debate then, has re-appeared in a few venues over the years (from Harvey’s own Social…
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David Harvey and Robert Brenner discuss Trump, finance and the end of capitalism
Here is the video of the debate between David Harvey and Robert Brenner last week at the CUNY Graduate Center, with the title ‘What now? The roots of the economic crisis and the way forward’. Don’t miss the discussion about Trump, especially in the last third of the footage.
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Henri Lefebvre, Marxist Thought and the City published and 30% discount code
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies: Henri Lefebvre, Marxist Thought and the City, translated by Robert Bonnano and with a brief preface by me has been published by University of Minnesota Press. It is available in cloth and paperback editions, and can be ordered with a 30% discount code – details in the flyer (valid until 1 March 2017).…
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