Monthly Archives: May 2013

advert – Journal of Urban Cultural Studies [and other new Intellect journals]

Posted on May 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
Finalizing material for issue 1.1, and working on 1.2!

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Leibniz archive

Posted on May 16, 2013 by stuartelden

A very interesting post by Stephen Wolfram about working in the Leibniz archive, with plenty of photographs of his manuscripts (via Leiter Reports).

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Henri Lefebvre by Chris Butler

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Purcell on Butler on Lefebvre.

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Badiou on Beckett – freely available book pdf

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Alain Badiou’s book On Beckett, translated by Nina Power and Alberto Toscano, available as a free pdf download here.

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Hacking – Pluto, Plutocrats & Plutonium

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Thanks to Elliot Jarbe for the link – Ian Hacking recently gave a lecture in Berlin which elaborated on the Pluto theme. Details here. Elliot asks if anyone knows the link to the audio recording – please add as a … Continue reading →

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Ian Hacking in Northumbria

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

As a break from marking and catching up on journal work and email, I headed up the A1 to Newcastle to hear Ian Hacking speak at the University of Northumbria. I really like his early books The Emergence of Probability … Continue reading →

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How not to talk about resilience?

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Radical Philosophy has recently been the venue for a short exchange of views on the topic of resilience. Let’s see what was said. Mark Neocleous led off with a piece on “resisting resilience.” In his view, “resilience…

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Intervention – Cartographic Nationalism and Territorial Confusion in East Asia

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
by Marijn Nieuwenhuis, University of Warwick Introduction The idea of nationhood rests on the claim of a specific territorial area. The cartographic demarcating of territory automatically exposes, however, the contingent nature of borders. Modern borders…

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Harman on Nancy, Badiou, Heidegger, Latour

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has been providing links to some of his papers “On Interface: Nancy’s Weights and Masses” “Bruno Latour and the Politics of Nature” “Badiou’s Relation to Heidegger in Theory of the Subject” All links via his Object-Orientated Philosophy blog.

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An Ongoing Displacement

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

65 years since the Nakba, another powerful infographic from Visualizing Palestine.

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