Monthly Archives: November 2012

Foucault after Agamben: Rethinking the Language of Biopolitics – call for panellists

Posted on November 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Najeeb Jan is seeking panelists for the 2013 Los Angeles meeting of the AAG. Please note since this is a panel discussion, you will not need to submit an abstract. If you are interested in joining the panel discussion please email … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Rée reviews Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life

Posted on November 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life is reviewed by Jonathan Rée at New Humanist (via ANTHEM).

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Posted on November 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Workshop “Foucault and the critique of our present: Reworking the Foucauldian tool-box” Part 2 organized at Goldsmiths College (London) by Yari Lanci, Amedeo Policante and Martina Tazzioli, with the support of the Department of Politics…

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Posted on November 10, 2012 by stuartelden

David Beer on choosing book titles, with links to earlier discussions by Graham Harman and me – back when The Birth of Territory still had the title The Geometry of the Political.

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Posted on November 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Object-Oriented Philosophy:
The title is Bells and Whistles: More Speculative Realism, and you can expect to see it out towards the fall of 2013. It will be of the same style as Towards Speculative Realism, with a…

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‘What The 2012 Election Would Have Looked Like Without Universal Suffrage’

Posted on November 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Buzzfeed has some interesting projections of how the election would have gone if only white men, only men, only whites, and only over 24 year olds had had the vote. What they have done is chosen the voting rules for the … Continue reading →

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Posted on November 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Yesterday, we had a meeting of Faculty Council for the Arts (I have to go as chair of our undergrad studies committee). This poor librarian starts us off with a 15-minute…

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Books received

Posted on November 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Chris Butler’s book on Lefebvre; Conley’s Spatial Ecologies; Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography (can’t quite believe I actually bought this); Campe’s The Game of Probability; first edition of Lindberg, The Beginning of Western Science (thanks Nick); a second-hand copy of … Continue reading →

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Romney’s Project for a New American Century

Posted on November 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Romney’s team prepared a website to launch if he’d won the election. I don’t blame him for being prepared, though rather embarassing that it leaked. Political Wire has some images. Interesting to see the idea of the ‘American century’ coming up … Continue reading →

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Mapping the US election

Posted on November 8, 2012 by stuartelden

In my opening lecture in the level 2 module Political Geography, I regularly use US presidential election maps. I generally start with 2000, 2004, and 2008 and talk about the swing states and geographical areas that seem clearly demarcated. But then … Continue reading →

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