Last year Society and Space had a paper from Edward Casey on the border, with responses by Michael, Mat Coleman, Roxanne Doty and Ronald Rael. You can find those papers here.

Eternity or infinity? Badiou’s Point 27(5) 823 – 839 Juliet Flower MacCannell

Geometry in the colossal: the project of metaphysical globalization 27(1) 29 – 40 Peter Sloterdijk (translated by Samuel A Butler)

The Shock Doctrine: a discussion 26(4) 582 – 595 Naomi Klein, Neil Smith

Theorizing sociospatial relations 26(3) 389 – 401 Bob Jessop, Neil Brenner, Martin Jones

Justice and the geographies of moral protest: reflections from Mexico 26(2) 216 – 233 Melissa W Wright

Torture and the ethics of photography 25(6) 951 – 966 Judith Butler

Where eagles dare: an ethno-fable with personal landfill 25(2) 194 – 212 Shiloh R Krupar

And the ‘Boys Town Redux’ virtual theme issue is available for two more weeks…

The audio recording of the discussions is available in three parts:-

Part one - Jamie Lorimer; Elizabeth Grosz; Nigel H. Clark

Part two - Arun Saldanha; Kathryn Yusoff; Catherine Nash

Part three - Elizabeth Grosz response; discussion

An edited paper drawing on the discussion will appear in the print journal in the near future. In the meantime, we have made the audio recording available. Here’s the description of the session which gives a flavour of the fascinating discussion.

Rather than understand art as cultural accomplishment, Elizabeth Grosz argues that it is born from the intensities of chaos and disruptive forms of sexual selection—a corporeality that vibrates to the hum of the universe. Grosz contends that it is precisely this excessive, non-productive expenditure of sexual attraction that is the condition for art’s work. This intimate corporeality, composed of nonhuman forces, is what draws and transforms the cosmos, prompting experimentation with materiality, sensation and life. Drawing from The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely and Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power, in this book, Grosz reads Darwin and Nietzsche against each other, taking up the unrealised possibilities of both to compose a new philosophy of life that argues for the generative (and destructive) forces of the environment and embodied difference. This “bioaesthetics” (Saldanha 2009)—that is biospheric and biopolitical—presents a formable challenge to geographers interested in art, sexuality, time and the territorialisation of the earth. How might we understand this distinctly different kind of biopolitics? Grosz argues that art is not tied to the reproduction of the known, but to the possibility of the new, overcoming the containment of the present to elaborate on futures yet to come. In this rethinking of sexual selection, Grosz suggests an intensely political role for art as a bioaesthetics that is charged with the creation of new worlds and forms of life. Grosz makes a radical argument for a feminist philosophy of the biosphere and for our thinking the world otherwise.

Bloodlands: critical geographical responses to the 22 July 2011 events in Norway191 – 206 Veit Bachmann, Luiza Bialasiewicz, James D Sidaway, Matthew Feldman, Ståle Holgersen, Andreas Malm, Robina Mohammad, Arun Saldanha, Kirsten Simonsen

The lawn; or on becoming a killer207 – 225 David Lulka

Putting space in place: philosophical topography and relational geography226 – 242 Jeff Malpas

Not exactly like the phoenix—but rising all the same: reconstructing displaced livelihoods in post-cleanup Harare243 – 261 Amin Y Kamete

Politics is sublime262 – 279 Mustafa Dikeç

Economies of empathy: Obama, neoliberalism, and social justice280 – 297 Carolyn Pedwell

Between food and flesh: how animals are made to matter (and not matter) within food consumption practices298 – 314 Adrian B Evans, Mara Miele

Theme issue: MathematicsGuest editor: Christian Abrahamsson

The contingency of the laws of nature322 – 334 Quentin Meillassoux

More parts than elements: how databases multiply335 – 350 Adrian Mackenzie

Experimenting with ontologies: sets, spaces, and topoi with Badiou and Grothendieck351 – 368 Arkady Plotnitsky

Differences: chaos in the history of the sciences 369 – 380 Michel Serres, Taylor Adkins

Dia Da Costa reviews Craig Jeffrey’s 2010 book, Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India, from Stanford University Press. Craig is a Society and Space Editorial Board member.