Monthly Archives: October 2011

AAG Political Geography pre-conference

Posted on October 8, 2011 by stuartelden

Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY, Feb 22-23 2012, with Christian Parenti as keynote. Details here (via here).

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Longer Times, Wider Geographies

Posted on October 6, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve uploaded an audio recording of my comments to the meeting last night of the Tyneside Stop the War coalition meeting. The meeting was held to mark ten years since the war on Afghanistan started. The first speaker Lindsey German, of Stop … Continue reading →

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Stefan Collini on British Higher Education

Posted on October 6, 2011 by stuartelden

Very interesting piece “From Robbins to McKinsey: The Dismantling of the Universities” in the London Review of Books. Lots of good bits, and if you want to know what a mess we’re in, it’s well worth a read. I particularly … Continue reading →

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John Protevi interviews Graham Harman

Posted on October 6, 2011 by stuartelden

John Protevi interviews Graham Harman at the New APPS blog.

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Judith Butler on the Politics of the Street text

Posted on October 5, 2011 by stuartelden

I mentioned the video of Judith Butler’s lecture “The Politics of the Street and New Forms of Alliance” earlier this week; now you can read the text – thanks again to Ayşe Mermutlu for the links. Update: The text is available here

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Roundup – Sebald, Books, Speculative Realist Literary Criticism, Occupy Wall Street, Zizek on TV

Posted on October 5, 2011 by stuartelden

Some interesting stuff I’ve recently come across… A retrospective ten years after W.G. Sebald’s death in The Times Higher Education (via Continental Philosophy). Interesting reading, especially on his resistance to the bureaucratisation of higher education. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen offers some interesting … Continue reading →

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Derrida vs. Searle

Posted on October 4, 2011 by stuartelden

A book shelf showdown:- Jacques Derrida’s shelves of his own publications vs. John Searle’s. Looks like Derrida wins this one too. This was an art installation – details here (via here).

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Open access – for all?

Posted on October 4, 2011 by stuartelden

Ok, I don’t get it. There is a lot of discussion going on about open-access at the moment – partly, as I understood it, because people want to be able to read work; and partly because people want others to … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler on the politics of the street

Posted on October 3, 2011 by stuartelden

Video of a lecture “The Politics of the Street and New Forms of Alliance” here – thanks to Ayşe Mermutlu for the link. Update: The text is available here

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Facebook

Posted on October 2, 2011 by stuartelden

This blog now has a facebook page. Posts from here will appear there, so if you ‘like’ this page, you can have updates that way… If you’re reading this on the full site, instead of through an rss feed, there … Continue reading →

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