Monthly Archives: September 2012

Two pieces on peer review

Posted on September 14, 2012 by stuartelden

One in The Times Higher Education; the other in the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies (requires subscription). The second is a wide-ranging piece with a lot of interesting points that go far beyond the specialist field the journal serves. I … Continue reading →

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Luke Bennett on bunkers and verticality

Posted on September 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Luke Bennett has an interesting discussion here of above ground air-raid bunkers and questions of verticality.

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Graham Harman – Latour’s political philosophy

Posted on September 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Graham Harman is to write a book on Bruno Latour’s political philosophy. He has some details here.

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Judith Butler interview on the Adorno prize

Posted on September 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Judith Butler is interviewed about receiving the Adorno prize here. I mentioned the ‘controversy’ about this in an earlier post.

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Posted on September 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Thinking Culture on writing practices – includes some links to this blog, but also lots of other good stuff.

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Trevor Paglen – The Last Pictures

Posted on September 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Territorial Masquerades has details of Trevor Paglen’s latest project. This is an exhibition, book and series of lectures. You can read an excerpt of the book here and there is a video about the project below. Trevor’s 2010 paper ‘Goatsucker: toward … Continue reading →

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Bruno Latour – new book

Posted on September 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Latour’s new book Enquête sur les modes d’existence is out in French next week, with an English translation following probably next year. Details of these, and much more, at his site. The result of a twenty five years inquiry, it … Continue reading →

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Schmitt in France – Jean-François Kervégan

Posted on September 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Actu Philosophia has a piece on one of France’s main Carl Schmitt commentators, Jean-François Kervégan.

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Graham Harman – Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy

Posted on September 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Graham Harman’s book on Lovecraft, Weird Realism is now out. As Hölderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarmé to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror … Continue reading →

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Forensic Architecture – new website

Posted on September 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Eyal Weizman’s Forensic Architecture project has a new website here. The Funambulist offers some thoughts here.

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