Monthly Archives: June 2012

Loeb downloads

Posted on June 5, 2012 by stuartelden

The Loeb series of Greek/English and Latin/English texts on facing pages are invaluable, even if you work with a more modern translation. All the ones that are out of copyright are available to download as pdfs here. Euripides, Sophocles, Augustine, Cicero, … Continue reading →

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The Space of the World

Posted on June 5, 2012 by stuartelden

A la limite, le problème qui se pose c’est celui des rapports de la pensée à la culture : comment se fait-il que la pensée ait un lieu dans l’espace du monde, qu’elle y ait comme une origine, et qu’elle … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Te Ipu Pakore: The Broken Vessel:
Simon Critchley, “Mystical Anarchism,” Adbusters, 1 June 2012. Politics is perhaps no longer, as it was in the so-called anti-globalization movement, a struggle for and with visibility. Resistance is about the cultivation…

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Writing Advice

Posted on June 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Via Paul Ennis, a post on writing advice that uses some quotes (including from me) from Paul’s edited collection Post-Continental Voices.

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Posted on June 2, 2012 by stuartelden
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Henri Lefebvre – Debates and Controversies

Posted on June 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Strong piece by Stefan Kipfer, Parastou Saberi and Thorben Wieditz in Progress in Human Geography surveying Lefebvre’s contributions and recent scholarship (requires subscription). The material on the state and social movements is particularly useful. Aided with French and German scholarship, this … Continue reading →

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Peter Hallward on the Quebec student protests

Posted on June 1, 2012 by stuartelden

In The Guardian. My colleagues at Society and Space are trying to get some pieces on this topic for the journal’s open site. I’ll link to them when there.

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Verso’s reading list – ‘Against Patriotism, Against Monarchy’

Posted on June 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Are you drowning in deluded celebrations of a reactionary political system, a country facing economic collapse and a sporting spectacle sucking funds from our welfare system? Are you disgusted by pleas for everyone to ‘pull together in this time of … Continue reading →

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Foucault archive as a ‘National Treasure’

Posted on June 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault News blog has been really helpful for updates on the archival status of Foucault’s papers – notes, lecture drafts, manuscripts, etc. Les aveux de la chair is in there. See these two recent pieces she has linked … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Funambulist:
Visualizing Palestine is an open collective which attempts to demonstrate graphically the injustice to which the Palestinians are subjected to in the current apartheid -or colonization depending on whether you consider the territory Palestine/Israel as…

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