Monthly Archives: October 2014

Grégoire Chamayou, ‘What is Necroethics?’, King’s College London, 29 October 2014

Posted on October 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Paul Gilroy: Hosted by the Capture Seminar, Grégoire Chamayou – author of Manhunts: A Philosophical History [Princeton, 2012] and Théorie du drone [La Fabrique, 2013] – will be joining us at King’s to give a presentation  “What … Continue reading →

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Ethnofiction: Augé’s No Fixed Abode reviewed

Posted on October 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Marc Augé’s No Fixed Abode reviewed at the Society and Space open site.

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Books received – Bartleson, Charnes, Debrix & Barder, Peoples & Vaughan Williams, Whitehead, Foucault et. al, and journals

Posted on October 15, 2014 by stuartelden

A few books from Routledge in recompense for review work, new issues of Transactions, Review of International Studies and Theory, Culture and Society, and a first edition (1976) of the Foucault-led Les machines á guerir. As I discuss in the page on Foucault’s collaborative projects, this … Continue reading →

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Conflicts without borders

Posted on October 13, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
In Finland last month I gave a presentation on Law, violence and b/ordering, in which I began by making two preliminary points about border crossings and (para)military violence: trans-border incursions and transgressions have been facilitated…

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Hong Kong and new book releases at Reconsidering Politics

Posted on October 12, 2014 by stuartelden

The Politics and International Studies at Warwick blog, Reconsidering Politics, has new posts on the situation in Hong Kong and new book releases from colleagues.

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on October 12, 2014 by stuartelden

What if the largest countries had the biggest populations? An interesting new world map Nine visual ‘attempts to explain the crazy complexity of the Middle East’ Towards a reading list on the Ebola crisis History of Philosophy chart Ebola reading … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s On the Government of the Living – book received and review forthcoming

Posted on October 10, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve just received a copy of the latest Foucault lecture course to be translated, 1980’s On the Government of the Living. the translation of Du gouvernement des vivants. The French was published two years ago; there are two lecture courses out in … Continue reading →

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The History Manifesto by Jo Guldi and David Armitage – print book from CUP and open access online

Posted on October 10, 2014 by stuartelden

The History Manifesto by Jo Guldi and David Armitage – open access book from Cambridge University Press. How should historians speak truth to power – and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or … Continue reading →

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Remembering Derrida: A Forum in the Los Angeles Review of Books

Posted on October 10, 2014 by stuartelden

Remembering Derrida: A Forum by Peggy Kamuf, Gil Anidjar, Elisabeth Weber,Michael Marder & Luce Irigaray in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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Peter Gratton, Speculative Realism – and links to journal articles on this theme

Posted on October 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Some papers from the Society and Space journal and open site that relate to Peter Gratton’s newly published book.

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