Monthly Archives: August 2011

Slavoj Žižek on English riots

Posted on August 22, 2011 by stuartelden

In the LRB (via the Verso blog). Well worth a read, and it ranges quite widely to Egypt and the financial crisis, among other things. It does exhibit the general tendency that people looking into the events tend to find what they … Continue reading →

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Harman’s Meillassoux book

Posted on August 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Graham Harman’s new book Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making has been out for less than a month, and I’ve now had a chance to read it. The structure of the book is reasonably straight-forward – chapters on After Finitude, the … Continue reading →

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen on Writing

Posted on August 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Posts I’ve made on writing, i.e. here and here, have received some of the most attention of any on this blog. So people may find Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s post on writing useful. Lots of examples, good advice, and personal recollections.

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Collini on British Higher Education

Posted on August 18, 2011 by stuartelden

Stefan Collini in the London Review of Books (via Thom Brooks). Some choice excerpts, but the whole thing is well worth a read, and while the specifics are to the UK, this is surely relevant much further afield. Whether one … Continue reading →

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Three New Books on Lefebvre

Posted on August 15, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned Lukasz Stanek’s book Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research and the Production of Theory before, but it is now out. Benjamin Fraser’s Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience: Reading the Mobile City should be out shortly, and Chris … Continue reading →

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Academic publishers and access to articles

Posted on August 15, 2011 by stuartelden

This was posted to the crit-geog-forum list earlier today, in response to a suggestion that all list members refuse to sign standard journal copyright forms, retaining the rights to put their work online as open access immediately. The Science Commons website – http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/scae/ – was … Continue reading →

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Territory, Communication, Speed

Posted on August 15, 2011 by stuartelden

In his 1982 interview ‘Space, Knowledge and Power’, Foucault and Paul Rabinow discuss architecture in some detail. It was originally published in the journal Skyline, so this is not surprising. There are some interesting passages, which I’m going over for … Continue reading →

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Ben Woodard, On An Ungrounded Earth

Posted on August 14, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting looking book coming out soon – Ben Woodard, On an Ungrounded Earth: Towards a New Geophilosophy (thanks to Tim Morton for the link). From the Punctum books website Geophilosophy is an odd form of philosophy torn between an overly … Continue reading →

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Heidegger, Cassirer (& Fink) at Davos

Posted on August 14, 2011 by stuartelden

Finally got round to reading Peter E. Gordon’s Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos. It’s an interesting book, on a key moment in European intellectual history. One thing thought was interesting was that Eugen Fink attended the debate – I knew … Continue reading →

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Fredric Jameson on The Wire

Posted on August 14, 2011 by stuartelden

Fredric Jameson, “Realism and Utopia in The Wire”, Criticism, Vol 52, No 3-4, Summer/Fall 2010, pp. 359-372 – find it here (and it appears to be freely available). Thanks to Oliver Belcher for the link.

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