Monthly Archives: May 2013

Border choreography, bare bodies, and penal states

Posted on May 3, 2013 by stuartelden

A commentary on borders and bodies at the Society and Space open site.

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Walter Benjamin, Pedagogy and the Politics of Youth

Posted on May 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Pedagogy & the Inhumanities:
Friday 31st May – Saturday 1st June 2013 University of Westminster, London Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW Co-hosted by the Institute for Modern & Contemporary Culture (IMCC) and the Centre for Research…

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David Morris, A Sense of Space – now in paperback

Posted on May 3, 2013 by stuartelden

David Morris’s book A Sense of Space, in the excellent SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy, is now available in paperback. A phenomenological account of spatial perception in relation to the lived body. The Sense of Space brings together space … Continue reading →

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The camp and geographical imaginations

Posted on May 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
Last Thursday, the last full day of my visit to Ostrava, Tomas took me to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in the Polish town of Oswiecim: I’m still trying to come to terms with…

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Terricide and Terracide

Posted on May 1, 2013 by stuartelden

Developing the work on the concept of ‘earth’ that I am currently undertaking, my RGS-IBG paper this year is on ‘Terricide‘, a concept taken from Henri Lefebvre’s De l’État. In De l’État, Lefebvre suggests (Vol I, p. 39) that he takes … Continue reading →

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Mapping the internet

Posted on May 1, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting story about mapping connections on the internet. The image above is static, but the ones in the story are animated to show changes over the course of a day. Thanks to James Kneale for the link.

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Call for Proposals: Workshop on Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance

Posted on May 1, 2013 by stuartelden

Call for papers for a workshop I’m speaking at in September, along with a number of very interesting other speakers. Call for Proposals: Workshop Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance September 19-20, 2013 Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario, … Continue reading →

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