Monthly Archives: April 2011

Procedures in search of content

Posted on April 8, 2011 by stuartelden

A new, online, journal of philosophy has been founded (nearly). The Berlin Journal of Philosophy is “a blind-submission, double-blind, peer-reviewed, open-access journal”. Details here. ‘Blind submission’ means that even journal adminstrators don’t know who wrote the paper, unless accepted, and … Continue reading →

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Elsevier ‘How to get published’ guide

Posted on April 8, 2011 by stuartelden

Find it here. Obviously largely on the mechanics, but there is some useful stuff here, and not entirely for those at the beginning of their careers.

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Gough map

Posted on April 7, 2011 by stuartelden

In a comment to an earlier post, Keith Lilley mentions the Gough Map. Definitely worth a look at the website of the project Keith has been leading on this map, usually thought to be from the 14th century. Lots of … Continue reading →

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Interview with Bill Cronon

Posted on April 7, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting, thoughtful piece in The Capital Times

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Edinburgh University Press philosophy

Posted on April 5, 2011 by stuartelden

Edinburgh University Press have a new philosophy catalogue out. Lots of really interesting books in there – Graham Harman’s book on Meillassoux launches the new Speculative Realism series; plus Gerald Moore’s book on The Politics of the Gift (endorsed by … Continue reading →

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Ruddick and Macherey free access

Posted on April 5, 2011 by stuartelden

Following the recent  interview with Susan Ruddick about translating Pierre Macherey, Society and Space has made two more texts free access to non-subscribers. They both come from Macherey’s forthcoming book Hegel or Spinoza (University of Minnesota Press), and are Sue’s introduction and … Continue reading →

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Society and Space free access highlight papers

Posted on April 5, 2011 by stuartelden

These have been available for a while, but there are a number of papers in Society and Space that are free access as highlights of recently published work. They include papers by Judith Butler; Peter Sloterdijk; Naomi Klein and Neil … Continue reading →

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Arts and Humanities Research Council and the ‘Big Society’

Posted on April 4, 2011 by stuartelden

The Arts and Humanities Research Council links to the Conservative party ‘big society’ idea continue. Thom Brooks provides some updates on his blog; Stefan Collini discusses in The Guardian here. Brooks organised a petition which you can sign here; but this … Continue reading →

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Nancy, Badiou, Connolly on contemporary events

Posted on April 4, 2011 by stuartelden

Jean-Luc Nancy supports the war in Libya (some excerpts in English here); which Alain Badiou criticises here. William Connolly takes a broader view of ‘The Politics of the Event’ here.

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They don’t know what they’re doing

Posted on April 4, 2011 by stuartelden

“Ministers admit plans for tuition fees are in disarray”

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