Monthly Archives: February 2013

Boko Haram in World Policy Journal

Posted on February 6, 2013 by stuartelden

World Policy Journal has a short and useful piece on Boko Haram by Carlo Davis, including this diagram of its political anatomy – clicking on the image will take you to their much larger version. The full piece is available … Continue reading →

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Greenwald and Cole on the Obama administration memo

Posted on February 6, 2013 by stuartelden

The Obama adminstration memo on assassination, that I linked to this morning, is dissected by Glenn Greenwald and Juan Cole. Greenwald is especially good on the political and geographical elements; Cole on the legal/constitutional issues.

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Lefebvre, autogestion, Mexico and Turkey

Posted on February 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Ertan Erol, one of Adam David Morton’s PhD students, discusses how Lefebvre’s notion of autogestion, especially in the State, Space, World collection is helpful in understanding spaces of difference and capitalist space in Mexico and Turkey at For the Desk … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
New transcript released of his 1974 prison visit. This should be of interest to those working on the late Sartre and his thoughts on violence (though this article itself is almost…

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Posted on February 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Michael Dear on the US-Mexico border.

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“there’s no geographic line” – Obama and assassination

Posted on February 6, 2013 by stuartelden

The leaked US memo on drone strikes is available here. Craig Jones has a good analysis at War, Law & Space. Informed Comment points to this story The Obama administration’s internal legal justification for assassinating U.S. citizens without charge has … Continue reading →

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Tom Engelhardt on the American Lockdown state

Posted on February 6, 2013 by stuartelden

At TomDispatch, a piece on the security around the Obama inauguration. Here’s the beginning: Consider Inauguration Day, more than two weeks gone and already part of our distant past.  In its wake, President Obama was hailed (or reviled) for his “liberal” second inaugural address.  … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Angus Cameron discusses encountering Richard III, academic publicity and impact, along with the question of peer review – all in a single post.

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Anti-Security – A Declaration

Posted on February 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Finally got round to looking at a copy of Anti-Security, edited by Mark Neocleous and George S. Rigakos, which came out in 2011. After a brief introduction, there is a powerful ‘declaration’ which sets out the academic and political rationale … Continue reading →

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Two more links on Brooklyn College

Posted on February 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Corey Robin writes at Crooked Timber, and the Verso blog has the story.

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