Monthly Archives: March 2013

Rory Rowan’s PhD thesis on Carl Schmitt

Posted on March 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Rory Rowan’s recently passed PhD thesis, The Crisis of Political Form: The Question of Space in the Work of Carl Schmitt, is available online.

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Geological London – workshop on 14 March 2013

Posted on March 11, 2013 by stuartelden

This was noted in a comment to a previous post, an event likely to be of interest to people in London – an evening workshop on 14th March 2013, organised by Expanded Territories. Full details here. Architecture, urbanism and geology … Continue reading →

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John Steinbeck’s 6 tips for writing

Posted on March 11, 2013 by stuartelden

It’s been a while since a post on writing. These are Steinbeck’s six rules – taken from Berfrois. 1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page … Continue reading →

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Crossrail – London as Laocoön

Posted on March 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting piece, with several striking images, at BLDGBLOG on the London Crossrail project.

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Sighting Oil

Posted on March 11, 2013 by stuartelden

On a related topic to the last – I was teaching on ‘resource wars’ this morning – Adrian Ivakhiv points to the current issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, a special issue on Sighting Oil. He writes: The … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Links between oil, finance and government – the interactive infographic is well worth a look.

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“Mr. President, Tear Down This Wall”

Posted on March 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Michael Dear, author of the recent book Why Walls Won’t Work, and founding editor of Society and Space, writes on the US-Mexico border in The New York Times. Thanks to Andrew Burridge for the link. NEARLY 700 miles of walls now … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on March 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Three volumes of the Stanford Nietzsche translations; Stefano Guzzini’s The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? and the ‘Speculative Geographies’ volume of The State.

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Mark Blyth, Austerity

Posted on March 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Blyth’s Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea is out shortly. There are several endorsements at the OUP page, and also a review by Henry Farrell in Washington Monthly. A series of videos show a talk he gave at … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Interview with Murder in Passing filmmakers at the Society and Space open site.

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