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Spinoza's Geographical Ethics Spinoza's Geographical Ethics

Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - out now, open access in e-book form: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza... @edinburghup.bsky.social

László Krasznahorkai in conversation with Colm Tóibín | London Review Bookshop Our first Literary Friendships event brought together Colm Tóibín with his friend László Krasznahorkai. Described by the Guardian as a ‘visionary writer’,…

Krasznahorkai has said of his work: ‘You will never go wrong anticipating doom in my books, any more than you’ll go wrong in anticipating doom in ordinary life.’

In 2012, we recorded a 94-minute conversation with Colm Tóibín for our Bookshop podcast:

www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...

“Giving up the Idea of Home”: Ambivalent Geographies, Geopoetics, and Resisting Capture in the Cities of the Middle East Abstract. This paper sits with the geopoetics of the Egyptian poet and writer Iman Mersal to grapple with affective ambivalence towards common objects of d

Just out paper which might be of interest to those who work on Urban Geograpy, Geographies of Home, and affective thinking (especially ambivalence).

It is a paper that considers the wonderful Iman Mersal's poetic oeuvre as a form of geography.

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⏰ Geographers! In light of the emergency situation we find ourselves in, I have put together an open letter to the RGS asking them to respond to the current unfolding situation with the RGS and EHRC. Please DM/email for details on how to read/sign. Re-post!

Patriarchal Hammers Some thoughts on the recent judgement by the Supreme Court

“Biology is all the more political because of how it is used as if it isn’t” @saranahmed.bsky.social in her usual uncompromising form: feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/patriarcha...

This is very good and if you work in a UK university you should read it.

An Atmospheric History of Smoking in Modern Britain This book studies the historiography of smoking in modern Britain, with a focus on the social, cultural, and emotional aspects of the practice.Centring on four…

An Atmospheric History of Smoking in Modern Britain by our colleague Ivan Markovic focuses on the social, cultural and emotional aspects of smoking in modern Britain, covering 150 years of British history bit.ly/40qP8j5

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University - Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic.
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

Excited to see this is out - and with an expanded online edition alongside! Congratulations and thank you @erindurban.bsky.social and team for all the work that went into it

Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots "Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."

fuck yes. Borges those motherfuckers

Though the last encounter with Sif wasn’t what I was expecting

Dark Souls 1 platinum

13 years after playing it for the first time, it is done. #ds1

My holiday project.

Invitation to a collective project!

What, for you, is the promise of cultural geography?

Vickie Zhang and I are seeking responses to the prompt (1-1000 words) by the end of February. They will be compiled, and made freely available in a publication (with DOI & ISBN). Details 👇

Sleeping in a gap in the literature!

Essential reference material

NEW GEOGRAPHY JOURNAL!

Agoriad: A Journal of Spatial Theory.

Issue 1, special issue on Indigenous Ontologies, out now, open access. It looks excellent.

Congratulations to the managing and issue editors on making this happen.

I can give you their insta, but it will only lead to more cats in your house...

I thought he looked like Stan when we got him! And yes, we now have a full on clowder of cats in the house; I caved to pressure...

Any model of philosophy which thinks the real dangers are all on the continental philosophy side is just begging for a return of the British empire

This is great! Am running a new course next term on the end of the world, in theory and in films, so straight on a reading list too. Am going through your bibliography, but any recommendations appreciated.

Aw, thanks Emma! Look forward to hearing about it at our annual catch up at the RGS

To start with this new platform as I mean to go on - pictures of cats hassling me while I work. Here’s Spike…