Monthly Archives: June 2014

Top posts this week on Progressive Geographies

Posted on June 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Shakespeare in New York: Kenneth Branagh as Macbeth – a short review The work of editing – adding references to translations Books received – Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Lefebvre etc. (2 of 3) Books received – territory, borders, architecture, government (1 … Continue reading →

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Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary

Posted on June 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary – the host is a bit lacking but Rabinow is probably the most important intellectual of our time… http://www.stanford.edu/dept/fren-ital/opinions/shows/eo10175.mp3 ? Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University…

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Bambach reviews Heidegger’s 1933-34 seminars, Nature, History, State

Posted on June 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Charles Bambach reviews Heidegger’s 1933-34 seminars, Nature, History, State – translated and edited by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt – at NDPR. The volume in question comprises student protocols of the seminars, plus interpretative essays by Robert Bernasconi, Peter Eli Gordon, … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s lectures on Subjectivity and Truth, I.1.

Posted on June 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
I will be summarising and commenting on the most recently published of Michel Foucault’s lecture series at the Collège de France, on subjectivity and truth (Subjectivité et Vérité. Cours au Collège de France, 1980-1981. Eds. François…

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

Posted on June 7, 2014 by stuartelden

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 the brink of resignation after … Continue reading →

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Steve Mentz on Kenneth Branagh’s Macbeth

Posted on June 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Steve Mentz has a good piece about Kenneth Branagh’s Macbeth at his blog. You can read my take here.

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Georg Lukács questions – did Existentialismus oder Marxismus? or ‘Heidegger Redivivus’ ever get translated into English?

Posted on June 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Did Georg Lukács’s 1954 book Existentialismus oder Marxismus? ever get translated into English? And did his ‘Heidegger Redivivus’ ever get translated? My searching has turned up nothing so I am assuming not. I know both are available in French and German.

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Interview about the ‘Governing Academic Life’ conference

Posted on June 6, 2014 by stuartelden

In advance of the ‘Governing Academic Life’ conference later this month, to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Foucault’s death, an interview with the organisers.

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Bradley Garrett in The Times Higher on protection for researchers

Posted on June 6, 2014 by stuartelden

“Place-hacker Bradley Garrett: research at the edge of the law” in The Times Higher. It’s good to see some people like Danny Dorling publicly supporting him, especially given the weak statement from Royal Holloway, University of London, where he did … Continue reading →

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Cryptologic geographies

Posted on June 6, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
In 2011, a 29-year-old grad student at the University of Münster in Germany made some coding alterations to OpenSSL, the secure sockets layer used on half a million websites around the world, including banks, financial institutions and…

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