Monthly Archives: February 2012

Stuart Hall interview

In The Guardian: The examples of this are everywhere, but take as the most pressing the case of the NHS. “How can millions of people have benefited from the NHS and not be on the streets to defend it? Come … Continue reading

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Rawls and the history of ideas

One of the things I find frustrating about the territory and justice work is its frequent avoidance of any kind of discussion of territory itself, instead taking territory as largely unproblematic and then going into more and more detail about … Continue reading

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Territory and Justice symposium

Papers by Avery Kolers and Margaret Moore, with commentaries and responses, are freely available here.

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Patrick Stewart as Shakespeare

I’m going to see Bingo: Scenes of Money or Death next week – looks good. Interview with Patrick Stewart here.

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Discussion with Adam Ramadan, Cambridge, 16 February 2012

The talk for the 16 February 2012, 7pm, at the Cambridge University Geographical Society will be in the form of a discussion with Adam Ramadan. We will be talking about my political work on territory in Terror and Territory; the more recent historical … Continue reading

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Five more free downloads

Another five papers I have uploaded to this site Elden, S. Contingent Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity and the Sanctity of Borders. SAIS Review of International Affairs. 2006;29:11-24. Elden, S. Dialectics and the Measure of the World. Environment and Planning A. 2008;40:2641-51. … Continue reading

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Anachronic Shakespeare poster

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Marx Reloaded UK premiere

Details here; and an interview with the director here.

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Greenblatt, Shakespeare’s Freedom

A sample of Stephen Greenblatt’s Shakespeare’s Freedom is freely available at Berfrois. Berfrois will also be publishing my short piece on the new Ralph Fiennes film Coriolanus sometime in the next couple of weeks.

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Leeds talk

Talk at Leeds to the POLIS department went quite well – small but interesting audience and some good questions. Thanks to Volha Piotukh for arranging this and her and Alice Hills for their hospitality. Particularly interesting to discuss the situation … Continue reading

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