Monthly Archives: February 2012

Ian Bogost on Making Books and Writing Books

Posted on February 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Back when his book The Textual Life of Airports was published in December, Christopher Schaberg reported what most authors do: seeing his book for the first time. “What a weird feeling,” Chris wrote. “It resembles an object from outer space. … Continue reading →

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No Borders conference

Posted on February 9, 2012 by stuartelden
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Elsevier launches ‘a new jounal’ – copyeditors required

Posted on February 7, 2012 by stuartelden
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Anachronic Shakespeare programme

Posted on February 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Really looking forward to this… been promised a ‘sexy poster’ at some point, so this is just the text and details. Anachronic Shakespeare A Poetics and Theory Conference February 24-February 25, 2012 New York University Jurow Hall, Silver Center 100 … Continue reading →

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Boys Town Redux – Society and Space virtual theme issue

Posted on February 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Mary Thomas has put together a virtual theme issue of Society and Space, with 12 papers from the archive made open access for a limited time and an introduction. The inspiration is the twentieth anniversary of Rosalyn Deutsche’s critique of … Continue reading →

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Jigawa State, Nigeria

Posted on February 6, 2012 by stuartelden

This is a more positive story from Nigeria. In July this year The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, invited readers to submit images as part of their photography competition which helps raise awareness about different areas of … Continue reading →

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Leeds talk on territory – this week

Posted on February 6, 2012 by stuartelden

This week I make the short trip to the University of Leeds to give the lecture ‘How should we do the history of territory?” This is the same talk I gave at KCL last week. Full details here.

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Five free downloads

Posted on February 6, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve uploaded the pdfs of these five papers. I’ll put another five up when I have the chance. This page has the complete list of all the things I know are available free online. Elden, S. Another sense of Demos: … Continue reading →

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The Post-Kantian Poe

Posted on February 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Call for papers for The Edgar Allan Poe Review – The editors invite original essays that address the influence of German Idealist and Romantic thought upon Edgar Allan Poe. While it has become a critical commonplace that Poe both makes … Continue reading →

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Coriolanus – Ralph Fiennes and the text

Posted on February 5, 2012 by stuartelden

I saw the Ralph Fiennes film version of Coriolanus while down in London this week. It’s good and worth seeing, though it has some problems, and does quite a lot of violence to the text (though not the plot) in the … Continue reading →

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