Monthly Archives: August 2013

CFP/conference and book pub – The Right to the City in an Era of Austerity (1973-2014)

Posted on August 31, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
The Right to the City in an Era of Austerity (1973-2014): Perspectives on the Past, Present, and Future of Urban Democracy in the United States and Great Britain An International Conference Organized by the Research Center…

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Michel Foucault : la justice et la police (video 1977)

Posted on August 31, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault : la justice et la police (video 1977) 25 avril 1977 Michel FOUCAULT explique, qu’à son avis, la véritable fonction du juge est d’être au service de la police. Antenne 2

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Gastón Gordillo’s Rubble gets closer

Posted on August 31, 2013 by stuartelden

At his Space and Politics blog, Gastón Gordillo has posted the backcover text for his book Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction – forthcoming with Duke University Press. He also notes that there is a longer summary of the book here. I’ll be interviewing … Continue reading →

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In-divisible cities

Posted on August 31, 2013 by stuartelden

To pull cities together, and then push them apart. To feel their bricks crumble in our fingers like honeycomb, before fusing them once more between our palms. To hang the great capitals of the world from the crescent moon, like … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on August 31, 2013 by stuartelden

Two reissues of Foucault books, Joshua Barkan’s Corporate Sovereignty, David Farrell Krell’s Derrida and our Animal Others, Sloterdijk’s In the World Interior of Capital, and Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway.

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Global Politics: A New Introduction – second edition published

Posted on August 29, 2013 by stuartelden

The second edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction, edited by Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss, has now been published. There is also a companion website. My chapter in here is entitled ‘Why is the world divided territorially?’ All the … Continue reading →

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Cohen, Stories of Stone – forthcoming

Posted on August 29, 2013 by stuartelden

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s Stories of Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman will be published by University of Minnesota Press in 2015. He has the details here, and on that blog has been sharing lots of details, updates and drafts of … Continue reading →

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# PHILOSOPHY /// “The Body of the Prey is the Battlefield”: Grégoire Chamayou and the Drone Theory (Part 1)

Posted on August 29, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Funambulist:
Still of the video What the Drone Saw by artist Omer Fast, a former U.S. Army drone operator / Source: The Guardian This article is the first one but very unlikely to be the last…

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Review Forum on Akhil Gupta’s Red Tape

Posted on August 29, 2013 by stuartelden

Review Forum on Akhil Gupta’s Red Tape at the Society and Space open site, convened by Sapana Doshi.

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The Birth of Territory is published

Posted on August 27, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve just received my advance copy of The Birth of Territory, and additional copies have been sent by the warehouse. The Chicago page for the book has the book listed as published, and orders from them direct will be sent now … Continue reading →

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