Monthly Archives: February 2013

Brooklyn College, Butler, Arendt and Academic Freedom

Posted on February 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Judith Butler continues to be criticised for her support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions program, most recently for the debate due to be hosted at Brooklyn College on 7th February. Various people including Alan Dershowitz have said such an event … Continue reading →

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Simon Dalby – The Geopolitics of Climate Change

Posted on February 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Simon Dalby’s Political Geography plenary lecture at the AAG in Los Angeles in early 2013 looks very interesting. It picks up some of the concluding comments to my own Political Geography lecture from the Royal Geographical Society conference last year. (I’ve just … Continue reading →

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Jussi Parikka and Tony Sampson discuss Tarde, networks and Virality

Posted on February 5, 2013 by stuartelden

At the Theory, Culture and Society blog Jussi Parikka and Tony Sampson discuss Gabriel Tarde and networks – the discussion is based around Sampson’s recently published Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks.

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Books received

Posted on February 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Mainly as recompense for review work, a good mix of old and new books, including Esposito’s Terms of the Political, Beatrice Hanssen’s Critique of Violence, Brad Evans, Liberal Terror, and a number of books by Sartre.

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Posted on February 4, 2013 by stuartelden

David Beer discusses the seeming lack of sociology blogs, and the contrast with geography. Interesting – not sure that there are that many in geography, and of other areas I am interested in, political theory seems to have relatively few … Continue reading →

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Conflict in Cities project

Posted on February 4, 2013 by stuartelden

I was down in Cambridge last week to examine a very good PhD thesis by Konstantin Kastrissianakis in the Department of Architecture. The PhD was part of the Conflict in Cities programme, and looked at public space in Beirut. While … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler at the American Academy of Religion

Posted on February 4, 2013 by stuartelden

A20-402 Plenary Address: Judith Butler from American Academy of Religion on Vimeo. (via Berfrois)

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Chomsky on the decline of US power

Posted on February 4, 2013 by stuartelden

At Informed Comment, an excerpt from a chapter in Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire, Noam Chomsky’s new interview book with David Barsamian.  

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AAG draft program available

Posted on February 2, 2013 by stuartelden

The draft program for the Association of American Geographers meeting in Los Angeles in early April is now available online. I’m speaking in a panel on Sloterdijk, a panel on the future of publishing, and giving a paper on ‘Urban … Continue reading →

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Advisor to Al Quds University

Posted on February 2, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve been appointed as an International Scholar as part of the Academic Fellowship program of the Open Society Institute in Budapest. I’ll be working with the Social Science Division at Al-Quds Bard Honors College, Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem. This entails a week-long … Continue reading →

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