Monthly Archives: June 2010

All my sons

Posted on June 22, 2010 by stuartelden

Went to see All My Sons last night in London. Arthur Miller’s first success, and still very timely – the theme of corporate responsibility as important as that of families, truth, guilt and love. A friend had an unexpected spare ticket … Continue reading →

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Remarkable research

Posted on June 22, 2010 by stuartelden

Found by the ever watchful Ben…  C.Y. Lew-Ting, “Egg Phobia in Retirement Homes: Health Risk Perceptions Among Elderly Chinese”,  Culture Medicine and Psychiatry, March 1997, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 27–51.

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In praise of Macquarrie and Robinson

Posted on June 22, 2010 by stuartelden

Both Graham Harman and Peter Gratton have posts up reporting on the news that there will be a new translation of Heidegger’s Being and Time. This is a revision of the Joan Stambaugh translation that SUNY published, done by Dennis … Continue reading →

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Cartographies of the Absolute

Posted on June 22, 2010 by stuartelden

Infinite Thought reports that Alberto Toscano has a new project underway. There is a blog and a forthcoming book written with Jeff Zinkle on cognitive mapping with Zer0. Looking interesting. Alberto was a PhD student at Warwick when I taught … Continue reading →

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England-Algeria – all you need to see

Posted on June 21, 2010 by stuartelden

Much briefer and less painful watching that the real thing… http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/video/2010/jun/21/world-cup-2010-england-algeria-brick

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Harman on Meillassoux

Posted on June 21, 2010 by stuartelden

Interesting post from Graham Harman on Meillassoux’s After Finitude here. Some small things to note – I hadn’t realised that the English translation of the book was not simply the same text as the French; there is a nice criterion … Continue reading →

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A weekend in the country

Posted on June 21, 2010 by stuartelden

Quiet weekend in rural Wiltshire, with two good bike rides in beautiful hilly countryside. Nice to get out of London. Also read Cary Wolfe’s What is Posthumanism? which had some interesting moments (I particularly liked the final chapter on Byrne and Eno’s My … Continue reading →

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New Michael Shapiro book out

Posted on June 18, 2010 by stuartelden

Political theorist Michael Shapiro has a new book out – The Time of the City: Politics, Philosophy and Genre. Details here. I was one of the readers of the manuscript and wrote a blurb for the back cover.

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Peer Review

Posted on June 18, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve just been alerted to this argument concerning peer-review via a message on Crit-Geog-Forum   And one of the commentators on that sent a link to this piece in the Times Higher.   There’s one key thing that these kinds of comments … Continue reading →

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Second Rob Kitchin novel

Posted on June 17, 2010 by stuartelden

Geographer Rob Kitchin, from NUI Maynooth, has just published his second novel. http://theviewfromthebluehouse.blogspot.com/2010/06/off-out-into-world.html

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