Category Archives: Interweb Motley

This game is just too fun and addictive (in a nerdy way) to not deserve a post. But first, how many of you geographers have been through something like this: “Oh, you’re a geographer. [PAUSE] Wow.” “Yeah.” “They still have … Continue reading →

Happy May Day! Peter Linebaugh has the most “Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day.” “Confessions of a Troll…” about power on the Internets or as a friend put it: the Master-Slave Dialectic in the Age of Digital … Continue reading →

A new biography by Jonathan Sperber on Karl Marx, which implicitly proposes a materialist account of a materialist thinker, has gotten a glowing review by the NY Times and much less favorable one [PDF] from Terry Eagleton. The University of … Continue reading →

Building the new surveillance state. And guess what? You’re doing it right now. Scary when it’s all laid out for you. God-tricking super-max prisons in the U.S.? Or visually representing how prison design and architecture “reflect political discourse, economic priorities, … Continue reading →

My friend Vijay Prashad’s new book is out with Verso. The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, which examines the prospects of a global power shift from north to south, is a sequel to The Darker Nations, which is … Continue reading →

Words Without Borders, a site that translates contemporary world literature into English, has a new issue out showcasing graphic novels on “topics ranging from the Spanish Civil War to the Shining Path, organized labor in France and broken homes in … Continue reading →

Jason Dittmer has a smart review of Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography. In atoning for what went wrong in Iraq, Kaplan is found flailing in the “shallows of geopolitics.” Anthropologist Wade Davis has a smart review of Jared Diamond’s … Continue reading →

Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America (U of Chicago, 2012) by Susan Schulten was recently reviewed in Public Books. The book has an interesting companion site, where you can find more graphics and info (e.g. “Slavery and the … Continue reading →