By this point, we have perhaps become accustomed to the inquiries from friends and family—“So, what do you study exactly?” The response—“Geography”—is often met by perplexed looks and polite smiles—“And, what do you plan to do with that?” For us, this dreaded question belies more than the familiar ritual of mid-twenty-something professional angst.

The focus of the relatively short interview below is to introduce the controversial turn in Ferraris' work to what he dubs a “new realism,” which finds him a kindred spirit to the speculative realists (Iain Hamilton Grant and Graham Harman have written forwards to the two English translations of his works this past year), as well as Markus Gabriel, whose realist theory of fields of sense has already made a mark in Germany, Italy, and elsewhere (though Ferraris’s turn to realism predated these movements).

In this interview, Joseph Masco speaks with Sonia Grant about his current work examining the evolution of the national security state in the United States, with a particular focus on the interplay between affect, technology, and threat perception within a national public sphere. 

Arnold Farr speaks to Margath Walker about his research on German idealism, Marxism, critical theory, philosophy of race, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, and liberation philosophy.

In this interview, Holger Pötzsch and Chiara Brambilla discuss a range of theoretical and methodological issues in border research.

Michael Watts is Class of 1963 Professor of Geography and Development Studies at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author and editor of a number of important studies of Nigeria, geopolitics, political violence and ecology. He was awarded the Victoria medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 2004 “for research on political economy, culture and power”.

Secchi's death in September marks a great loss for urbanism. This interview is a gesture towards bringing his work to a wider Anglophone audience, reflecting on his legacy by exploring his intellectual production, critical pedagogy and practice, with a special focus on the exploration of his idea of a 'new urban question' and the formation of his reflexive urban research praxis.

In this interview, Walaa Alqaisiya speaks to Mary Thomas on the political dynamics in Gaza, Palestine.

In this interview Grosz discusses her new book about questions of ontology and ethics, which draws on the philosophies of the Stoics, Spinoza, Nietzsche to address materialist idealism.

In this interview, Łukasz Stanek discusses the work of Henri Lefebvre and his latest book, "Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory".