Monthly Archives: June 2014

Interview with Simon Critchley and excerpt from The Hamlet Doctrine in Berfrois

Posted on June 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Interview with Simon Critchley at Berfrois, plus an excerpt from his co-authored book The Hamlet Doctrine – via the Verso blog.

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Pratt reviews McDowell’s Working Lives

Posted on June 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Gerry Pratt reviews Linda McDowell’s new book on the Society and Space open site.

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Srinivasan and Kasturirangan commentary – ‘Impact and the Social Science Imagination’

Posted on June 24, 2014 by stuartelden

A commentary on the impact agenda in Higher Education on the Society and Space open site.

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Graham Burchell – Michel Foucault, La société punitive: an editorial curiosity

Posted on June 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Graham Burchell, the translator of all-but-one of Foucault’s Collège de France lecture courses, has sent me a note on small but important ‘curiosity’ in the course he is currently translating: La société punitive. I’ve put up the whole of his note in a … Continue reading →

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Comments on territory for the Ice-Law workshop at Durham – audio recording

Posted on June 23, 2014 by stuartelden

I spent the second half of last week back in Durham at a workshop organised by Phil Steinberg on Ice Law or, to give it its full title – The IBRU Workshop on International Law, State Sovereignty, and the Ice-Land-Water Interface. I used … Continue reading →

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One million views of Progressive Geographies

Posted on June 23, 2014 by stuartelden

According to WordPress, there have now been just over a million views of Progressive Geographies since the blog started in 2010. That’s page views, not visits. The map below – which shows visits from October 2013 – gives a good … Continue reading →

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The theft of Native Americans’ land, in one animated map

Posted on June 23, 2014 by stuartelden

University of Georgia historian Claudio Saunt on “Europeans’ violent seizing of Native Americans’ land“. To supplement his new book, West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, Saunt created an interactive map showing the decline of Indian homelands from 1776 to 1887. … Continue reading →

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The Clubs that Connect the World Cup – New York Times visualisations

Posted on June 23, 2014 by stuartelden

The New York Times has some very good visualisations/animations of the players and their clubs that make up the national teams at the World Cup. (Clicking on the screenshot below takes you to the interactive page.)  

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Foucault’s Lectures on Subjectivity and Truth, VIII

Posted on June 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of 1st March, 1981 Foucault highlights the difference between love for women and love for boys, and the value placed on the man-woman love, particularly man-wife love, in antiquity in the period of Hellentistic-Roman philosophy.…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on June 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Explaining ISIS/ISIL – a roundup of things to read How powerful is your passport? – infographic The Constitution of Scottish Territory “Thought is the courage of hopelessness” – interview with Giorgio Agamben Richard Wolin on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks in the … Continue reading →

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