Monthly Archives: August 2012

Alec Murphy on ‘Territory’s Continuing Allure’

Posted on August 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Also in the Annals of the AAG (requires subscription) Alec Murphy has an interesting piece about questions of territory today. The role of the territorial state has changed in recent decades in the wake of the communications revolution; the explosion … Continue reading →

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Christaller and Nazism

Posted on August 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Jeremy Crampton has an interesting post at Open Geography about the links between Walter Christaller and Nazism. It begins with a link to an important paper by Trevor Barnes and Claudio Minca on Christaller and Carl Schmitt forthcoming in the Annals of … Continue reading →

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Foucault – Mal Faire, Dire Vrai

Posted on August 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell has posted news of the publication of Foucault’s 1981 Louvain lectures – an English translation is forthcoming (details here). I won’t repost all the information you can find on the Foucault News blog (or here), which includes the … Continue reading →

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Writing – words a day, and daily routines

Posted on August 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Posts on writing seem to get quite a bit of interest here, so I’ll use classicist Mary Beard’s question to say a little more about this again. In her TLS column, Beard asks ‘How many words can you write in a … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory on ‘The Life of a Bullet’

Posted on August 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Also from Derek Gregory – some discussion of the arms trade, and lots of links, following from this powerful film clip.

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Derek Gregory on Eyal Weizman’s Forensic Architecture Project

Posted on August 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Some discussion and lots of useful links here.

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Slavoj Žižek on ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

Posted on August 9, 2012 by stuartelden

At Boitempo (warning – contains spoilers). Thanks to David McInerney for the link.

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Verso on the Olympics

Posted on August 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Undeterred by the general enthusiasm for the Olympics – at least in the UK – Verso have posted the second part of their critical reading list. Again, some of these are a bit of a stretch, but some interesting reading … Continue reading →

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