Monthly Archives: September 2013

What Bale earns – a real-time tracker, with comparisons

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Following Gareth Bale’s transfer to Real Madrid (officially starting today), a site that tracks what he has earned so far, along with comparisons.  At 4pm he had already earned 47 weeks of minimum wage. At 4.36pm it declares: Bale can … Continue reading →

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The Great University Gamble reviewed

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Andrew McGettigan, The Great University Gamble is reviewed in Radical Philosophy (open access). RP subscribers or people whose institution have a subscription can get the book at 25% off here.

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Terricide – RGS-IBG audio available

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

My talk at the recent RGS-IBG conference is available here. This was part of a session on Geo-social formations: Capitalism and the Earth (details here and here), organised by Arun Saldanha, Kathryn Yusoff and Nigel Clark. Terricide – Lefebvre, Geopolitics and the Killing … Continue reading →

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Cambridge Foucault Lexicon – forthcoming

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Cambridge University Press have a page up for the forthcoming The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, edited by Leonard Lawlor and John Nale. I wrote the entry on ‘space’. It looks like this is going to be another expensive, destined for libraries … Continue reading →

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Koopman, Genealogy as Critique reviewed at NDPR

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Colin Koopman’s important book on Foucault, Genealogy as Critique, is reviewed at NDPR.

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# CINEMA /// Coriolanus and the State of Exception

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Funambulist:
Still from the film Coriolanus by Ralph Fiennes (2011) Before being a historical figure, Caius Marcius Coriolanus is a legendary one. He, as an actual person was a Roman general who lived in the fifth…

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Ian Hacking on chance as worldview

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Understanding Society has an interesting post about Ian Hacking’s work on chance and probability.

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