Monthly Archives: November 2013

Andrew Neal – the myth of Hadrian’s firewall

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Andrew Neal has a piece in The Scotsman on the likely impact of a Scottish independence vote on the UK’s national security infrastructure.

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Ann Laura Stoler (ed.) Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

I missed this when it came out in June, but an important looking collection edited by Ann Laura Stoler, Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination has been published by Duke University Press. Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of … Continue reading →

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Kathryn Yusoff on Project Anthropocene at Geocritique

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Kathryn Yusoff’s short essay “Project Anthropocene: a minoritarian manifesto for reoccupying the strata” is available at Geocritique.

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Charlotte Heath-Kelly – Politics of Violence

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

New book out from my Warwick colleague Charlotte Heath-Kelly – Politics of Violence: Militancy, International Politics, Killing in the Name. Great shame about the price though. Critical thinkers like Foucault, Benjamin, Derrida and Žižek have long challenged the liberal separation of … Continue reading →

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A Symposium on Resistance – audio recordings

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

A Symposium on Resistance – audio recordings from the launch of Howard Caygill’s latest book On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance. Contributions from Jacqueline Rose, Peter Hallward, Costas Douzinas, Michael Dillon, Howard Caygill (thanks to Ayşe Mermutlu for the link).

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European maps of language groups – words for bear, church, beer, etc.

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

More maps here (thanks to Simon Springer for the link).

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Book Review Symposium – Philip Mirowski’s ‘Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown’

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Guest editor: Brett Christophers, Uppsala University Philip Mirowski’s Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste is an important and distinctive contribution to debates around the politics and economics of the economic crisis which began…

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Don Mitchell on Neil Smith – long article available

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Don Mitchell‘s essay “Neil Smith, 1954-2012: Radical Geography, Marxist Geographer, Revolutionary Geographer” is available on his website. The whole thing is well worth reading, even if you know the work well. It’s a thoughtful and moving piece. What is especially … Continue reading →

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On Academic Rudeness

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

The Times Higher Education has a good piece.

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# HISTORY /// The Body as a Terrain of Experiments: Medicine and Vile Bodies According to Grégoire Chamayou

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Funambulist:
As announced in the previous article about the “thanatopolitics of death penalty,” I will propose a review of the book Les corps vils : Expérimenter sur les êtres humains aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles (Vile Bodies:…

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