Monthly Archives: October 2012

Simon Critchley Summer Seminar: Levinas – Ethics, Politics and the Problem of Violence

Posted on October 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Continental Philosophy has news of Simon Critchley’s summer seminar on ‘Levinas – Ethics, Politics and the Problem of Violence’, to be held in Tilburg July 20-27, 2013. Full details here.

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Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life reissue

Posted on October 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life – a classic Situationist text – is being reissued in a revised translation. Details here (via Territorial Masquerades). Originally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Territories at Warwick – audio available

Posted on October 8, 2012 by stuartelden

The lecture at Warwick on Wednesday last week was well attended – people sitting on the floor, even – and there were some interesting questions. Nice to see some old friends and colleagues, though this was largely a PhD student led event. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Research Associate post at Durham

Posted on October 5, 2012 by stuartelden

A full-time Postgraduate Research Associate for 30 months at Durham, to contribute to a research project on “Securing Against Future Events (SaFE): Preemption, Protocols, and Publics”, working with Louise Amoore.

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Posted on October 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Antipode links to a number of pieces by Neil Smith – lots of good things to read here.

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Thinking Urban Worlds – workshop at Durham University

Posted on October 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Room W007, Durham University, December 5th 1-4.30pm With the majority of humans on the planet now residing in towns and cities, it is de rigueur for commentators to describe the world as ‘urban’; to herald an ‘urban revolution’ and proclaim … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield on Lefebvre, Occupy and Kafka

Posted on October 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Two online pieces by Andy Merrfield – Henri Lefebvre’s Youthfulness of Heart and Enigma of Revolt: Kafka on Occupy (via Geographical Imaginations).  

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Posted on October 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
Special issue of Theory, culture and society 29 (2012) on Topologies of Culture: Celia Lury, Luciana Parisi and Tiziana Terranova, Introduction: The Becoming Topological of Culture Peter Sloterdijk, Nearness and Da-sein: The Spatiality of Being and Time Rob Shields, Cultural Topology:…

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Verso and Tom Slater on Neil Smith

Posted on October 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Two more pieces – from Verso and Tom Slater.

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Eric Hobsbawm’s Introduction to the 2012 Edition of Marx & Engels ‘The Communist Manifesto’

Posted on October 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Verso have made the text of Eric Hobsbawm’s Introduction to the 2012 Edition of Marx & Engels’s The Communist Manifesto available on their blog.

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