This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Doreen Massey, Spatial Divisions of Labour: Social Structures and the Geography of Production.
As previously, we will meet Fridays, [...]
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Recommencing my series of posts on the novels of Victor Serge, I focus now on what Richard Greeman has recognised as the ‘cycle of resistance’ in the second informal trilogy comprising Midnight in the Century [1939], The Case of Comrade Tulayev [1942], and The Long Dusk [1946]. [...]
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One of the most striking features of Victor Serge’s writings has to be the way he captures spatial arbiters that shape the practices of empowerment and containment within the territorial form of the city. As argued in my latest journal article published here in Annals of the [...]
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The wealthy classes know only too well how to juggle away revolutions: “Abracadabra!”
Picking up on my series of posts on Victor Serge, my attention now turns to his second novel in the ‘cycle of revolution’, Birth of Our Power, where the narrative moves from a failed [...]
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Following the publication of my article on ‘The Urban Revolution in Victor Serge’, in Annals of the American Association of Geographers, my thinking has returned to collating a series of posts I had previously written on the novelist. These will now be collected on Progress in [...]
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Following my annual practice, I have listed my “novel” reading for 2018. This is a way of documenting what I get through in a year’s worth of reading on the commute to work, in the evenings after work, and while travelling on those airplane journeys from/to Sydney outside of my [...]
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Tanto como un poema o una tragedia, un monumento metamorfosea en esplendor el temor ante el paso del tiempo, la angustia ante la muerte — Henri Lefebvre, La Producción del espacio.
Saben que el espacio del poder estatal es el enfoque de mi presentación hoy. De hecho [...]
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A new special issue of the journal Globalizations has just been published and brings together articles on Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek that were initially presented, or otherwise have their origins, in an international conference ‘Questioning the Utopian Springs of Market Economy’, held [...]
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