Monthly Archives: December 2013

Post-apartheid geographies – a virtual theme issue

Posted on December 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Papers from the Environment and Planning series of journals made open access – Antipode has done similar.

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James Bond: An Ageing Agent in Skyfall (2012)

Posted on December 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Klaus Dodds reflects on age, bodies and gender in the latest James Bond movie.

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Mike Gane interviewed by Baudrillard Studies

Posted on December 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting interview with Mike Gane at Baudrillard Studies. It is especially good on the context of his early work in Sociology, reading Althusser and then Baudrillard. I knew that Lefebvre was on the jury for Baudrillard’s doctoral defence. I didn’t … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Anderson, Sloterdijk, Geographica Helvetica

Posted on December 17, 2013 by stuartelden

The latest Foucault lecture course La société punitive; Sloterdijk’s Nietzsche Apostle; Perry Anderson’s Lineages of the Absolutist State (the only one of my ten books that stayed with me that I didn’t actually own); and the new issue of Geographica … Continue reading →

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the EUP Speculative Realism series in 2014

Posted on December 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Object-Oriented Philosophy:
The Speculative Realism series at Edinburgh will be releasing quite a number of books in 2014, but we’re starting out in the spring with an impressive hat trick of books likely to make a big…

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the OHP New Metaphysics series in 2014

Posted on December 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Object-Oriented Philosophy:
These aren’t up on Amazon yet, but are coming soon from Open Humanities Press. First up, we have Joseph Carew’s Ontological Catastrophe, a very provocative study of Žižek’s concept of the same name. Lots of…

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Territory, the continental shelf, and ice – my comments to the ArcticNet conference in Halifax

Posted on December 16, 2013 by stuartelden

On Thursday I gave my last talk of 2013, a brief contribution to a plenary session at the ArcticNet conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was a session on the law of the sea and the commission on the limits … Continue reading →

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Orlando Woods on Sri Lankan house churches

Posted on December 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Some photos to sit alongside a paper in the latest issue of Society and Space.

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Christmas gifts for Critical Theorists

Posted on December 16, 2013 by stuartelden

An excellent compendium at critical-theory.com. Here are a few favourites, but do look at the whole list.

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The Politics of Land in the UK today

Posted on December 16, 2013 by stuartelden

The New Statesman has a good piece about land politics in the UK today, puncturing the myth of overcrowding and urban sprawl; indicating the enormous subsidies given to already-rich landowners; and effectively demonstrating the continuing importance of feudal relations. Here … Continue reading →

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