Monthly Archives: December 2013

Quentin Meillassoux’s Les conditions de la contingence course – audio available

Posted on December 19, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of Quentin Meillassoux’s 2013 course ‘Les conditions de la contingence’ course is available here (via Graham Harman).

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Writers’ advice for writers in The Atlantic – Franzen, King, Hosseini, and More

Posted on December 19, 2013 by stuartelden

Thanks to Sue Ruddick for the tip – some good advice here.

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Fifteen years ago today I submitted my PhD thesis

Posted on December 18, 2013 by stuartelden

My PhD thesis was entitled ‘Mapping the Present: Space and History in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault’ and it was submitted in December 1998 (I’m pretty sure it was on the 18th). It was examined … Continue reading →

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The Natures of War online

Posted on December 18, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
St Andrews has just posted the video of my Neil Smith Lecture on “The Natures of War” online here, and I’ve also embedded it below.  We lowered the lights so that the slides would pop, so…

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Intervention – ‘Here Comes Everybody: Joyce’s Urban Chaosmos’ by Andy Merrifield

Posted on December 18, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
“He lifts the lifewand and the dumb speak” – James Joyce Here Comes Everybody: Joyce’s Urban Chaosmos Andy Merrifield, Fellow, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge One of the great humanist visions of James Joyce’s…

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Political Concepts – Issue 3.1 published

Posted on December 18, 2013 by stuartelden

Political Concepts – Issue 3.1 has been published – Avital Rondell on ‘authority’; Richard J. Bernstein on ‘violence’; Jacques Lezra on ‘enough’ and ‘translation’; Susan Buck-Morss on ‘civilization’; Ariella Azoulay on ‘revolution’, and many more…

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Tom Hiddleston as Coriolanus – a review in The Guardian

Posted on December 18, 2013 by stuartelden

Tom Hiddleston as Coriolanus is reviewed in The Guardian. The show appears to be entirely sold-out, but is being broadcast live to cinemas on January 30th 2014.

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Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect – out next year

Posted on December 18, 2013 by stuartelden

My ex-Durham colleague and friend Ben Anderson’s book Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions is coming out next year. Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, and how to … Continue reading →

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Some reflections on The Future of Social Theory

Posted on December 17, 2013 by stuartelden

The Future of Social Theory… ten years later.

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Andrew McGettigan: Student Protests and the Privatisation of Universities.

Posted on December 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Pluto press round up some pieces related to McGettigan’s book The Great University Gamble.

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