Monthly Archives: June 2014

Tom Conley reviews The Birth of Territory in Imago Mundi

Posted on June 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Tom Conley reviews The Birth of Territory in Imago Mundi (subscription required). It’s a thoughtful, generous and engaged review. Here’s the first paragraph: Readers of Imago Mundi will appreciate this book for what it does along the fringes the history … Continue reading →

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Top posts this week

Posted on June 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Mapping the world through its airport connections – excellent visualisation Medieval rules for sex in an easy to use flowchart Boko Haram – An Annotated Bibliography Wendy Brown—Governmentality in the Age of Neoliberalism (2014) Rob Kitchin’s forthcoming The Data Revolution … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare in New York: Kenneth Branagh as Macbeth – a short review

Posted on June 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Warning: if you are planning on seeing this production of Macbeth, I’d suggest not reading further. There are spoilers about the production I would not have wanted to know beforehand.     The staging of Macbeth at the Park Avenue … Continue reading →

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen on finishing a book

Posted on June 1, 2014 by stuartelden

A nice piece on the process of finishing a book – in this case, Stories of Stone for University of Minnesota Press – which discusses funding, collaboration and the process of writing.

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Foucault’s Lectures on the Punitive Society X

Posted on June 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of March 7th 1973 ? Foucault continues a discussion from the last lecture of the lawyer Guy-Jean-Baptiste Target, he refers to there in connection with the dehumanised account of peasant rebels against the regime of…

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