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Tag Archives: social theory
Cultural Speed-up
Cultural Speed-up is an issue that comes up quite a bit in my teaching. Students often discuss the speed of the transformations they are observing. The discussions we have of Georg Simmel’s piece is often a source for thinking about … Continue reading
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Tagged acceleration, Cultural speed-up, Nicholas gane, social theory, time
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Back to the future of social theory
I’ve just been looking back at one of my first publications, it was from a bit over 8 years ago. I read a copy of Nick Gane’s book The Future of Social Theory. The book collects together a series of … Continue reading
Nigel Thrift and Peter Sloterdijk
A post over at Progressive Geographies about an event involving Nigel Thrift in Conversation with Peter Sloterdijk. Should be lively. I suspect a big chunk of the discussion will be about the spheres trilogy, here’s my review of spheres part … Continue reading
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Tagged conversation, Nigel thrift, Peter Sloterdijk, social theory, Tate
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Sloterdijk’s Moment: my review of Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles
My review of Peter Sloterdijk’s recently translated book Bubbles has just been published in Berfrois. The book is the first to be translated from his spheres trilogy. Here’s a link to the article, which I’ve called ‘Sloterdijk’s Moment‘.
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Tagged berfrois, book, bubbles, globalisation, microspherology, modernity, Peter Sloterdijk, review, review of bubbles, Sloterdijk, social theory, spheres
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New issue of Theory, Culture & Society
A new issue of TCS is out. Contains a interesting looking article on boredom by Michael Gardiner.
Zizek riffing and bluffing
Just came across this in an old interview with Zizek: He opens a copy of Living in the End Times, and finds the contents page. “I will tell you the truth now,” he says, pointing to the first chapter, then … Continue reading