Monthly Archives: October 2012

The AHRC and ‘the Big Society’

Posted on October 17, 2012 by stuartelden

Thom Brooks has an update on the campaign to get the AHRC to remove ‘the Big Society’  from its strategic plan – qualified good news.

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s Introduction to Prismatic Ecologies

Posted on October 16, 2012 by stuartelden

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen has shared his draft introduction to a book entitled Prismatic Ecologies: Ecotheory Beyond Green, forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press. The chapters include pieces by a range of philosophers, literary scholars, etc. on different colours and their relation to … Continue reading →

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Book publishing, uploading pdfs, and print on demand

Posted on October 16, 2012 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has some good thoughts on book publishing here – sparked by someone uploading his book Tool Being. I agree with Graham on this, although I don’t have his experience of publishing a book in simultaneous print and free … Continue reading →

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New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies

Posted on October 16, 2012 by stuartelden

New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies, by Rick Dolphijn and Iris van der Tuin is now available, open access, online. Print and pdf versions to follow. The first half of the book has interviews with Rosi Bradotti, Quentin Meillassoux, Karen Barad and … Continue reading →

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Posted on October 16, 2012 by stuartelden

The Geopolitics and Security blog at Royal Holloway on some changes and their work with e-IR.

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Posted on October 16, 2012 by stuartelden

Thinking Culture on the question of collaborative writing.

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Research Fellowships at Durham

Posted on October 16, 2012 by stuartelden

A range of opportunities: JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP SCHEME Durham University is delighted to announce that the third round of the Junior Research Fellowship Scheme is open. The scheme is designed to attract the most talented researchers in Europe and beyond, … Continue reading →

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New books received

Posted on October 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Some recently received books – mainly from University of Georgia Press in recompense for review work; an old and a new book bought from Verso; Kant’s Natural Science for review; and a copy of the Babel2  Diritto alla città collection … Continue reading →

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Politicised Literary Geographies – workshop at Durham

Posted on October 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Department of Geography workshop, Durham University 16th November 2012, W007 – sponsored by Politics-State-Space research cluster If you wish to participate in this event, please register with Andrew Baldwin w.a.baldwin@durham.ac.uk. The aim of this workshop is to engage with the … Continue reading →

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John D. Caputo interview with Figure/Ground

Posted on October 15, 2012 by stuartelden

The ever-interesting Figure/Ground has an interview with John D. Caputo.

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