Monthly Archives: February 2015

Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics – abstract for my lecture at University of New South Wales

Posted on February 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics 10th March, 4pm, School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales This lecture will introduce the work I have been doing on the question of territory over the past several years, leading to two … Continue reading →

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Citizenfour wins Oscar

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Citizenfour, the documentary about Edward Snowden, won an Oscar last night in the Best Documentary category. The movie will be shown on HBO tonight (9PM EST). The Oscar went to director Laura Poitras, editor Mathilde Bonnefoy…

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Simeon Wade (ed.) Chez Foucault – the 1978 fanzine with a 1976 interview with Foucault

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Back in December I posted about an elusive publication which contained a 1976 discussion with Foucault which appeared in Chez Foucault, Los Angeles: Circabook, 1978, pp. 4-22. While this text is translated into French for Dits et écrits (online here), I wanted to find … Continue reading →

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Jean-Luc Nancy and Heidegger’s Black Notebooks

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

In addition to the pieces linked a few days ago, this news from Philippe Theophanidis: An audio recording of a lecture Jean-Luc Nancy’s gave back in October 2014 just surfaced on the web. The title of the lecture is “Die Banalität … Continue reading →

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Ralph Miliband, Class War Conservatism, with preface by Tariq Ali (part available online)

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Class War Conservatism: And Other Essays by Ralph Miliband, Introduction by Tariq Ali – the introduction is partly available in The Guardian. When, in 2013, the Daily Mail labeled Ralph Miliband “The Man Who Hated Britain,” a diverse host rallied to his defense. Those who had worked … Continue reading →

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New article in Antipode | ‘Capitalist formations of enclosure: space and the extinction of the commons’

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on multipliciudades:
My latest article, ‘Capitalist formations of enclosure: space and the extinction of the commons’, is now available online at the early view webpage of Antipode. This was a great opportunity to sum up some of my…

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Operational Landscapes: Towards an Alternative Cartography of World Urbanization – Neil Brenner exhibition at University of Melbourne

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

The MSD Dean’s Lecture Series 2015 presents an exhibition by the Urban Theory Lab (directed by Neil Brenner): Operational Landscapes: Towards an Alternative Cartography of World Urbanization – Tuesday, 17 March 2015 – 9:00am to Friday, 3 April 2015 – 5:00pm, ALKF Gallery, University … Continue reading →

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[new book] Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities [April 2015]

Posted on February 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
The cover for Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities, the first of many new books in Palgrave’s new HISPANIC URBAN STUDIES book series, edited by B. Fraser and S. Larson. [click here…

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Kluge and Negt, History and Obstinacy – English translation published

Posted on February 22, 2015 by stuartelden

I missed this at the end of last year, but the long-awaited English translation of Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt, History and Obstinacy has been published by Zone books. If Marx’s opus Capital provided the foundational account of the forces of production in all of … Continue reading →

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Top posts this week on Progressive Geographies

Posted on February 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Why I’m not writing or speaking about Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (except here) Martijn Konings, The Emotional Logic of Capitalism “The German Ideology Never Took Place”: Terrell Carver History of the Present – the Berkeley newsletter on Foucault’s work online Foucault … Continue reading →

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