Monthly Archives: March 2012

More free downloads

Posted on March 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Another five pieces uploaded Elden, S. National Socialism and the Calculation of the Political. Social and Cultural Geography. 2006;7:753-769. Elden, S. Place Symbolism and Land Politics in Beowulf. Cultural Geographies. 2009;16:447-463. Elden, S. Politics, philosophy, geography: Henri Lefebvre in recent … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek on The Wire

Posted on March 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Link to audio and story here. Also provides the link to the Fredric Jameson piece I mentioned some time back.

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Singularum – first issue on Alphonso Lingis

Posted on March 11, 2012 by stuartelden

New online journal – first issue is on Alphonso Lingis, including papers by Graham Harman, Timothy Morton and John Protevi. And there is an interview with man himself, taking photography and geography as the ways into his work, here.

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Urban Cultural Studies – new blog

Posted on March 11, 2012 by stuartelden

http://urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com/ run by Benjamin Fraser, who has written some interesting work on Lefebvre, including this new book – Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience: Reading the Mobile City.

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Today’s writing task

Posted on March 11, 2012 by stuartelden

A short piece on the mask, for a collection of essays on Occupy. My piece builds on my earlier ‘V for Visibility’ on the Society and Space open site.

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Crimes against humanities

Posted on March 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Protest in Southampton against Willetts’s Higher Education policy (Political Scrapbook, via Matt Davies).

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Collini – What are Universities for?

Posted on March 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Stefan Collini’s book is a good read, that manages to be inspiring and depressing, amusing and annoying. Too many good passages to mention, but here’s one that we should put to the test: In this connection, it would be interesting to … Continue reading →

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Occupy the Cypriot buffer zone

Posted on March 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting story here – thanks to Andrew Burridge for the link. Inspired by the global “Occupy” movement, youths from across the divide in Cyprus have joined forces to set up camp inside the buffer zone that has split the island since … Continue reading →

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Materialism and World Politics – Millennium conference

Posted on March 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Update: this conference is 20-21 October 2012, not as previously advertised:

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Marieke de Goede – Speculative Security

Posted on March 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Marieke de Goede’s Speculative Security: The Politics of Pursuing Terrorist Monies is out, and comes highly recommended – indeed endorsed – by me. The endorsement is on the Minnesota Press website, but here’s the backcover description: Does following the money create … Continue reading →

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