Monthly Archives: January 2013

Resistance in Area E1

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

A month ago I posted about Area E1 in the West Bank, an area Israel hopes to build settlements, but at present is a cleared space with the infrastructure for a settlement (roads, power cables, a police station, security apparatus, … Continue reading →

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Two posts on the Zapatistas

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Two interesting posts on the Zapatistas – at Territorial Masquerades and For the Desk Drawer. Both look at related questions around territory and geopolitics, both explicitly relate to Lefebvre’s work in various ways, but there are links to his writings on … Continue reading →

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Greenwald on the Mali Intervention

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

In The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald discusses the intervention in Mali: As French war planes bomb Mali, there is one simple statistic that provides the key context: this west African nation of 15 million people is the eighth country in which … Continue reading →

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Reading Kant’s Geography – Atlanta APA Eastern talk audio

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk at the APA Eastern can be found here. I talk a bit about the session as a whole here. My talk draws on my 2009 paper “Reassessing Kant’s Geography” and also on my review of … Continue reading →

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Deleuze, Lyotard, de Gandillac, Klossowski, Derrida, Pautrat

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

In the comments to the ‘When Heidegger met Lacan’ post, ‘Naxos’ shares a link to this photograph from Cerisy-la-salle in 1972. left to right – Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, Maurice de Gandillac, Pierre Klossowski, Jacques Derrida, and (Bernard?) Pautrat.

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Bradley Garrett’s five new rules for the neoliberal academy

Posted on January 13, 2013 by stuartelden

A suggestion of how to fight back against neoliberalism, by adopting its values. Much of how higher education works would collapse if we seriously adopted these – examining theses, reviewing for journals, speaking at conferences, department seminars, etc. But that … Continue reading →

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The Intervention in Mali

Posted on January 13, 2013 by stuartelden

France’s intervention in Mali over the last few days hasn’t received that much notice in the Anglophone press. It has now been joined by Britain, providing logistical support and supplies, which may change that. The Observer has the story here, and there is a … Continue reading →

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Jacob Klein, Gilles Deleuze and Francis Bacon

Posted on January 11, 2013 by stuartelden

At New APPS, an intriguing post on Jacob Klein, Gilles Deleuze and Francis Bacon by Jeff Bell. In an earlier post, I made reference to Jacob Klein’s essay about Husserl’s history of the origin of geometry. Klein’s own work is … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
This post was originally given as a talk at the Urbanomic event Simulation, Exercise, Operations held in Oxford on the 11th July 2012. Thanks to Robin Mackay for the transcription of the talk that served as a basis for the…

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Slavoj Žižek interview in Salon

Posted on January 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Rather late linking to this.

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