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Come on, this is much more fun than Big Brother... I wonder where Marcus Doel has gone though - is he sulking in the bathroom muttering to himself in French? David. >-----Original Message----- >From: A forum for critical and radical geographers >[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gavin Parker >Sent: 02 February 2007 14:57 >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Alan Badiou and Human Geography > > >Day four in the 'Big' Geographer's house... > >Dr Gavin Parker >Senior Lecturer in Town & Country Planning >Department of Real Estate & Planning >The University of Reading >Whiteknights, Reading, UK. RG6 6AW >Tel: 0044(0)118 378 6460 > >www.rdg.ac.uk/rep >www.rdg.ac.uk/CoPS > > >-----Original Message----- >From: A forum for critical and radical geographers >[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jon Cloke >Sent: 02 February 2007 11:45 >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Alan Badiou and Human Geography > > >Mathis, > >You miss the point - the English language lacks the tortuous >semiotic flexibility necessary to render your pronunciations >completely obscure and obfuscatory in the way that French >does; think Proust and his sentences running on for pages. How >would you do that in English and still imbue what you said >with the same kind of etymological mysticism - and then add in >bits of cod maths for a truly post-modern, post-structural >'clarification'? > >Me, I'm going to stick to what I do best, which is rooting >around in the discursive acorns of the lumpengeografariat. Grunt. > > >Jon Cloke, >Newcastle University > > > > >From: Mathis Stock <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Mathis Stock <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: RGS 2007 CFP: Alan Badiou and Human Geography >Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:04:13 +0100 > >So, a new "French theorist" has been spotted: that's marvelous! > >This must be the exotic, thus exciting part of (British/Anglo) >"Human geography" (by the way, I thought - after all those >theoretical revolutions and turns - the Vidalian expression >"Human Geography" had no longer any sense...). > >But, can you imagine: there are "French theorists" even within >geography!! > >It would be a real challenge to engage with the theoretical >propositions, different in style and problematisation, from >inside the field. But, maybe it's easier to do some >import/export with those more "exotic" French thinkers... > >All the best. >mathis > >ps: there are "German", "Italian", "British" and so on theorists, too. > > > > >Le 31 janv. 07, à 15:41, Dr Richard Smith a écrit : > >>Call for papers: >> >>RGS/IBG Annual Conference, 28-31 August 2007 >> >>Session title: Alain Badiou and Human Geography >> >>Convenor: Marcus A. Doel, Swansea University, UK ><[log in to unmask]> >> >>Sponsored by: Social & Cultural Geography Research Group >> >>Session abstract: Our collective engagement with French theorists has >>transformed Human Geography, and our research would be impoverished >>without the benefit of encountering the ideas of Louis >Althusser, Jean >>Baudrillard, Michel Callon, Hélène Cixous, Manuel Castells, Michel de >>Certeau, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce >>Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Bruno Latour, and Henri >>Lefebvre, amongst others. This session will consider the >potential for >>Human Geography of Alain Badiou, who is reputedly one of the most >>insightful, original, and radical thinkers in France today; not least >>because of his singular re- articulation of philosophy and >mathematics, >>inflected by politics and psychoanalysis, which poses a profound >>challenge to the forms of poststructualism, actor-network theory, and >>non-representational theory that many human geographers have recently >>made their own. As so many theoretical trajectories within the >>discipline converge on the notion of multiplicity-frequently >under the >>aegis of association, difference, flow, heterogeneity, and network-, >>one of the most significant advances that Badiou might offer us is a >>rigorous and explosive account of the multiple, the subject, and the >>event. The session will introduce Badiou's thought and assess its >>potential for advancing research agendas in human geography. >Offers of >>papers are welcomed from enthusiasts, critics, and sceptics. >> >> >>If you would like to offer a paper, please let me know by English love >>day: 14 February 2007. The gist of a title and an abstract would be >>helpful, but an early expression of interest will suffice. >> >>Marcus Doel >> >> >>-- >> >>Professor Marcus A Doel >>Director of Research and Professor of Human Geography >>Centre for Urban Theory >>School of the Environment and Society >>Swansea University >>Singleton Park >>Swansea SA2 8PP >>United Kingdom >> >>Tel 0 11 44 (0)1792 513090 >> >>Email: [log in to unmask] >