Monthly Archives: November 2014

“Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth”, University of Nottingham Centre for Critical Theory lecture, Nottingham Contemporary, 12 November 2014

Posted on November 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
On 12 November 2014, I’ll be giving a University of Nottingham Centre for Critical Theory lecture at Nottingham Contemporary gallery. The title is “Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth”, and I’ll be speaking about the most recently…

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Review essay of Branch, Sassen, Scott and Vigneswaran on historical and political understandings of territory, forthcoming in Society and Space

Posted on November 11, 2014 by stuartelden

I have a review essay of four books coming out in Society and Space in issue 1 next year. The books are Jordan Branch, The Cartographic State; Saskia Sassen, Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy; Tom Scott, The City-State in Europe, 1000-1600 and Darshan Vigneswaran, Territory, Migration, … Continue reading →

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Gastón Gordillo – ‘Passion for Terrain’; Léopold Lambert – ‘Spinozist Body/Terrain’

Posted on November 11, 2014 by stuartelden

There is an interesting piece by Gastón Gordillo on ‘Passion for Terrain’ at his Space and Politics blog. It’s mainly about wingsuit flying, but indicates some of the arguments of his book in progress Opaque Planet: Outline of a Theory … Continue reading →

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Henning Schmidgen’s Bruno Latour in Pieces

Posted on November 10, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Translated by Gloria Custance, I was disappointed by this work, which I hoped would be the necessary background for providing links among Latour’s disparate works, from his PhD in philosophy of religion…

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Foucault Resources – page on this blog now updated

Posted on November 10, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve made some additions and amendments to the Foucault Resources page on this blog. Among other things, the two contributions from Graham Burchell are linked; I’ve updated the table of Foucault’s various plans for The History of Sexuality, with a list of … Continue reading →

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Power and Space in the City – a series of conversations at UCL

Posted on November 10, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Power and Space in the City – a series of conversations at UCL. I’ll be part of the first conversation on Powerful Urban Territories on November 18th 2014, along with Wendy Pullan, Allan Cochrane and Janet…

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Call For Papers – ‘Thinking with Algorithms’, Durham, 26-27 Feb 2015

Posted on November 10, 2014 by stuartelden

Call For Papers for Workshop ‘Thinking with Algorithms: Cognition and Computation in the Work of N. Katherine Hayles’ Gala Theatre, Durham, 26-27 February 2015 Confirmed keynote speakers: Katherine Hayles (Duke University) Donald Mackenzie (Edinburgh University) Luciana Parisi (Goldsmiths, University of … Continue reading →

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Juliet Fall, Feminist Political Geography – the animated movie

Posted on November 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Juliet Fall has made another short animated movie, following the one she made on The Birth of Territory, which premiered at the Tampa AAG. This one is on ‘Feminist Political Geography’, and I make a cameo appearance (I’m the one in the … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on November 9, 2014 by stuartelden

A table showing who is part of the new materialism, and an argument as to why it is not a “turn” A new project on Lefebvre’s rural writings with Adam David Morton ‘Confession, Flesh, Power and Truth’ – my review … Continue reading →

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Latour on “Digital Methods”

Posted on November 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Installing (Social) Order:
In a fascinating, apparently not-peer-reviewed non-article available free online here, Tommaso Venturini and Bruno Latour discuss the potential of “digital methods” for the contemporary social sciences. The paper summarizes, and quite nicely, the split of…

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