Monthly Archives: April 2012

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

Posted on April 12, 2012 by stuartelden

David Harvey’s new book is out – my copy was sent to Durham so I’ve not yet seen it. There is a review by Owen Hatherley here; and Harvey talks about the book here.

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Matt Hannah interview on Dark Territory

Posted on April 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Interview about his book Dark Territory in the Information Age: Learning from the West German Census Boycotts of the 1980s at Exploring Geopolitics. Part one and follow the link at the end for part two.

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Edinburgh Bodies in Movement seminar series

Posted on April 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Details up of the three seminars in this series – I’m giving the third of them – 2 July 2012, on Coriolanus. Apparently I will provide ‘a delicious geographical and material twist’ to the play and film…

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New APPS interview with Beth Lord

Posted on April 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Another in the ever-interesting series of interviews – this time with Beth Lord from Dundee (Beth and I were at Warwick at the same time).

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Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

Posted on April 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Details here; review at Berfrois here. The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and … Continue reading →

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Lego Social Theory

Posted on April 11, 2012 by stuartelden

More Lego Social Theory – here. Thanks to Ben R for the link – Anthony Giddens, Angela McRobbie and Stuart Hall. The original figures of Foucault, Butler, Giddens and McRobbie are here.

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Gunnar Olsson on Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on April 10, 2012 by stuartelden

A detailed and very generous review (which becomes much more) of Reading Kant’s Geography by Gunnar Olsson in Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography (requires subscription): So hot are the connections between the geography/anthropology courses and Kant’s overall philosophy that the … Continue reading →

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Reading suggestions

Posted on April 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Thanks for the suggestions in comments. Some very good ideas that should keep me busy – but clear that there are so many good things to read that I won’t be doing much re-reading… I won’t be following up on … Continue reading →

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Rereading novels

Posted on April 9, 2012 by stuartelden

The Guardian has a couple of features on rereading novels – a piece discussing it here, and some contemporary authors’ favourite novels to re-read here. This isn’t something I do very often with novels. I did when younger but now I … Continue reading →

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Ralph Fiennes on Coriolanus

Posted on April 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting interview – though the bit on Coriolanus is about 18 minutes in.

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