Monthly Archives: September 2014

Books received – Cowen, Doolen, Anderson, Boyd and Linehan, Foucault

Posted on September 8, 2014 by stuartelden

A pile of books received. Deborah Cowen’s The Deadly Life of Logistics (from the publisher); Andy Doolen’s Territories of Empire (which I endorsed); Ben Anderson’s Encountering Affect and Boyd &  Linehan’s Ordnance (in recompense for Ashgate review work); L’Herne’s 2011 volume … Continue reading →

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Daniel P S Goh – The Little India Riot and the Spatiality of Migrant Labor in Singapore

Posted on September 8, 2014 by stuartelden

A commentary on Singapore at the Society and Space open site.

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Deleuze’s transcribed lectures

Posted on September 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
A reminder, for those who have yet to come across this incredible resource. I somehow lost my pdf of Deleuze’s lectures on Spinoza and affect and came back to find it here (the pdf is…

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Stephen Legg, Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India

Posted on September 8, 2014 by stuartelden

  Now out from Duke University Press – Stephen Legg’s Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India. Officially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by this time, prostitution … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on September 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre’s 1954 doctoral thesis on peasant communities in the Pyrenees David Harvey in conversation with Tariq Ali Harvey’s Seventeen Contradictions reviewed A map of all the devices on the internet Foucault’s Collaborative Projects Links on the Islamic State – … Continue reading →

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Links on the Islamic State – from Burke to Esposito, Rogers to Zizek

Posted on September 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Back in June I posted a number of links – Explaining ISIS/ISIL – a roundup of things to read. Here are some more on the recent events. I’ve not generally linked to major news sources other than the…

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Henri Lefebvre’s 1954 doctoral thesis on peasant communities in the Pyrenees

Posted on September 5, 2014 by stuartelden

This is very intriguing – it seems Lefebvre’s 1954 doctoral thesis on peasant communities in the Pyrenees is coming out in French. His secondary thesis La vallée du Campan was published in 1963, but this is the first publication of … Continue reading →

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Two more talks in the autumn – Nottingham and UCL

Posted on September 5, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve agreed to give two more visiting talks this autumn, as well as the Harvard, Groningen and Basel ones already mentioned. 12 November 2014, “Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth”, University of Nottingham Centre for Critical Theory lecture, Nottingham Contemporary gallery 18 November 2014, “Urban Territory”, Conversations … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 13

Posted on September 5, 2014 by stuartelden

I spent some more time on the collaborative projects part of Chapter Six – especially on the report Généalogie des équipements de normalisation: Les équipements sanitaires which has some very interesting material. I say a bit more about this here. … Continue reading →

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Philosophy and Ecology at the End of the World: Morton’s Hyperobjects reviewed

Posted on September 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Cara Daggett reviews Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects at the Society and Space open site

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