Circling Squares

The theme for this year's Millennium conference at the LSE has been announced: "Failure and Denial in World Politics." The ke...

I think that this is true in more ways than one; however, one way is particularly important. Like poststructuralism, new materialism is a ...

Terence Blake writes (by way of introduction to a broader blog critique of Latour's AIME project): The term “Anthropocene” is a scien...

By way of response to my previous post on the seminar that she organised, Penny Newell writes  (with terrific kindness!): It's great ...

I've avoided using Academia.edu for a while. Not for any particular reason, I just didn't feel the need to 'network.' Howeve...

One after the other, higher and higher they are piled! Relentless, ruthless—none shall be spared. What bravery, what hard nosedness! And my...

As previously advertised , I gave a talk yesterday at a seminar run by the Performance Research Group at King's College London, the them...

Simon Dalby's reply to my research article on Bruno Latour's geopolitics is now online. The first paragraph: Reading Philip Conw...

I recently finished reading a fascinating book by Laura Dassow Walls,  The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of Amer...

I'm very much looking forward to speaking at a seminar run by the Performance Research Group at King's College London next Monday (...

If the intention of a criticism is not to construct then call it what it is: a denunciation. That would save us all a lot of time. I would...

Further to my reflections on Leviathan and the concept of war in my previous post , perhaps the words of the man himself might be in order:...

Last Saturday evening, I had the great pleasure of attending the first UK performance (and, indeed, the first in English) of a play written ...

In what is, in my humble opinion, one of the most important contributions on the subject yet, Clive Hamilton and Jacques Grinevald ask: ...

Next weekend at UCL's Bloomsbury Theatre, 'Gaia: Global Circus,' a play by Pierre Daubigny and organised by Bruno Latour, will ...

John Tresch's The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology After Napoleon is a beautifully constructed and unfailingly impressi...

In response to my last post , dmf writes : see I thought diplomacy was about the negotiating workable (extra-military) relations between c...

In response to my last post , Tim Howles writes : Cf. the question put to BL in his recent interview on 'AIME as system': "Th...

A few reflections on the rite of passage that is publishing your first journal article . Not exactly advice, although my naïf experiences ma...

After much preamble on this blog over the past few years, my first journal article has just been published online  (it will appear in print ...