Monthly Archives: December 2012

Measuring the world

Posted on December 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Phil Steinberg put me onto BldgBlog a while back, a great site on architecture, urban planning and the like. They have an interesting post up on measurement, the city of Manhattan, GPS and Ecuador, and the south pole.

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Posted on December 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting piece about the problems with Google Scholar for counting citations, or perhaps about the idea of metrics generally.

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Continent annual

Posted on December 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Papers from the Continent journal in book form from Punctum – download here. Thanks to Graham Harman for the alert – also includes pieces by Tim Morton, Alain Badiou, Michael O’Rourke, Ben Woodard…

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A Child’s World

Posted on December 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Thanks to Ben Rosamond for sending me a photo of this powerful map – A Child’s World: Countries where physical abuse against children is forbidden by law.

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Book Depository live map

Posted on December 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Speaking of books and maps – Book Depository have a page which let’s you see what books are being bought, and where, live. Thanks to Ben Rosamond for the link.

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Michel Foucher – A Battle of Maps

Posted on December 11, 2012 by stuartelden

An Ipad app on cartography and politics, by Michel Foucher. Want to understand the modern world and its burning issues, the balance of powers between the major players, the role of the emerging economies and the risks to come? The … Continue reading →

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AAG Political Geography preconference

Posted on December 11, 2012 by stuartelden

The AAG Political Geography preconference will be held on 8th April 2013, at UCLA. Full details and call for papers here.

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Andy Merrifield – ‘Whither Urban Studies?’

Posted on December 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield has a substantial piece at the cities@manchester blog on the question of ‘Whither Urban Studies’. Some elements are close to the talk he gave at Durham last week at the Thinking Urban Worlds workshop (see here for notes on … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
by Geoffrey Boyce (University of Arizona) and Jill Williams (Clark University) In Precarious Life, Judith Butler (2004) argues for a feminist transnational politics based on the precarity of life – the corporeal vulnerability that we…

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Encountering Althusser

Posted on December 11, 2012 by stuartelden

New collection of essays on Althusser, with a focus on the later/unpublished work. Details here.

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