Monthly Archives: May 2013

Jeanne Haffner, The View from Above

Posted on May 21, 2013 by stuartelden

Jeanne Haffner’s The View from Above: The Science of Social Space has recently been published by MIT Press. In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social space” (l’espace social)—the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked—emerged in a … Continue reading →

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Taking time to dwell with Iain Sinclair

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXM0S4n1Hw Iain Sinclair is a leading writer, filmmaker, poet and psychogeographer, renowned for his walks in the borderlands of cities, derelict sites and urban redevelopments. His solitary walks in Middlesbrough and Hartlepool were the focus of…

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Intervention symposium – ‘Explosive geographies’

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
On April 15, 2013, two bombs targeting the Boston Marathon exploded on Boylston St, killing three and initiating the United State’s most visible domestic security operation of the decade. Two days later, a fertilizer plant…

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Foucault for Architects

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Gordana Fontana-Giusti’s Foucault for Architects is now out (via Heterotopian Studies). From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture … Continue reading →

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Podcast: Ian Hacking ‘Making up Autism’

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Centre for Medical Humanities Blog:
A podcast of Professor Ian Hacking’s ‘Making Up Autism’ – Inaugural C. L. Oakley Lecture in Medicine and the Arts, University of Leeds, 13 May 2013 – is now available here.

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Landscape’s Geopolitics reviewed by John Agnew

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Agnew on Mangani at the Society and Space open site.

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Postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Copenhagen

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Ben Rosamond – br@ifs.ku.dk: Three postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Copenhagen ‘EuroChallenge’ Interdisciplinary Research Programme Department of Political Science, Facuty of Law, Faculty of Humanities ‘EuroChallenge’ is a major new interdisciplinary project, financed by the … Continue reading →

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Spheres Of Action – edited by Alliez and Osborne

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Spheres Of Action: Art and Politics, edited by Éric Alliez and Peter Osborne, recently out with MIT Press. Contemporary art is increasingly part of a wider network of cultural practices, related through a common set of references in cultural theory. … Continue reading →

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The Dimensions of Territory – audio of talk at Al Quds Bard Honors College

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk earlier this month at Al Quds Bard Honors College, “The Dimensions of Territory”, is available here. For people who know my work on territory it doesn’t have much new, but it tries to give … Continue reading →

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Authors’ annotations to their novels

Posted on May 19, 2013 by stuartelden

The Guardian has some interesting annotations from authors to their own books.

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