Early in opening discussion at the ‘Spatial Justice’ workshop, Massey said that those who had come for a punch-up were going to be disappointed, and she was right. While I wasn’t blood-thirsty for a Massey Harvey heavy-weight match, along with many...
Where is justice? Or, more precisely, what is the where of justice? For quite some time the elephant in the room of social science’s spatial turn – the formula was only mentioned three times in the last century, as Soja noted – this question has gained significant...
1. Back in the Eighties and Nineties, Marxist intellectuals, shaken by the Gulag revelations and the collapse of the communist states, started welcoming human rights. Claude Lefort, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Etienne Balibar and Jacques Rancière1Claude Lefort, The...
Admin: We think it is important to repost this text from our early days (originally posted in March 2009). The term ‘Lemon Socialism’ powerfully conveys the sense of socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. The first decade of the 21st century...
Inaugural lecture, 24/11/2010 “Welcome to the University for Strategic Optimism, a university based on the principal of free and open education, a return of politics to the public, and the politicisation of public space. As our university buildings are being boarded...
