Monthly Archives: June 2014

How powerful is your passport? – infographic

Posted on June 22, 2014 by stuartelden
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More on the Constitution of Scottish Territory

Posted on June 22, 2014 by stuartelden

At Terri-Stories, Randy Schiff adds some thoughts about the constitution of Scottish territory to the brief comments I made yesterday. It is particularly good on the territorial status of the Orkney and Shetland Islands.

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Benjamin Kunkel reviews Thomas Piketty in the LRB

Posted on June 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Benjamin Kunkel reviews Thomas Piketty in the LRB – free to read online. Update – many more reviews here: thanks to Simone Tulumello for the link.

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New issue of Parrhesia – Meillssoux, Garcia, Klossowski, Ivakhiv, Tropes of Transport etc.

Posted on June 22, 2014 by stuartelden

New issue of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy just out – includes work by Quentin Meillassoux, Tristan Garcia, Pierre Klossowski on Walter Benjamin, a review panel of Katrin Pahl’s Tropes of Transport: Hegel and Emotion, a piece by Adrian Ivakhiv on the objects-processes debate in … Continue reading →

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The Constitution of Scottish Territory

Posted on June 21, 2014 by stuartelden

An interim constitution for Scotland has recently been published – a draft document for what would be the proposed constitution following a ‘yes’ vote in the forthcoming referendum. It’s an interesting document for a number of reasons. Given my interests … Continue reading →

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Jens Bartleson review essay on new books on empire and sovereignty

Posted on June 21, 2014 by stuartelden

Jens Bartleson –  “From Empire to Sovereignty—and Back?“, Ethics and International Affairs. A review essay of David Armitage, Foundations of Modern International Thought; Lauren Benton, A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires 1400–1900; and Jean L. Cohen’s Globalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy, and Constitutionalism.

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Environment and Planning A theme issue on ‘territorial stigmatization’

Posted on June 20, 2014 by stuartelden

Environment and Planning A theme issue on ‘territorial stigmatisation’.

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Editors vs Publishers – The Times Higher story on Prometheus and Taylor & Francis

Posted on June 20, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The Times Higher has an interesting and worrying piece about the clash between the editors of a journal and their publisher Taylor & Francis. Here’s the opening few lines: A journal’s editorial board has been left on…

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First translation of Deleuze’s course on Rousseau

Posted on June 20, 2014 by stuartelden

This looks interesting – thanks to Peter Gratton for the link.

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Barry Stocker on Foucault’s Subjectivity and Truth lecture seven

Posted on June 20, 2014 by stuartelden

Barry Stocker on Foucault’s Subjectivity and Truth lecture seven – parts one and two.

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