Monthly Archives: February 2015

Alberto Toscano, The Intolerable-Inquiry: The Documents of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons

Posted on February 7, 2015 by stuartelden

This isn’t new, but I’d not seen this 2013 piece before – Alberto Toscano’s review of “The Intolerable-Inquiry: The Documents of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons” in Viewpoint. We are for­tu­nate to now have in a French edi­tion a … Continue reading →

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Leibniz on the geography of flooding in Annals of Science, with commentary by Lloyd Strickland and Michael Church

Posted on February 6, 2015 by stuartelden

A previously unpublished letter by Leibniz on the geography of flooding has been published in Annals of Science with a commentary by Lloyd Strickland and Michael Church. Lloyd is a leading Leibniz scholar and Michael is one of the few physical geographers I know with … Continue reading →

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Podcast of Judith Butler’s Feb 4 talk at LSE: Human shields

Posted on February 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
This should be coming out on video/youtube soon. Until then, here is an audio podcast available for download. Here is the write up: Recent debates about human shields in the summer bombardment of Gaza…

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Interview with Bruno Latour from Festival of Ideas in Valparaíso, Chile

Posted on February 6, 2015 by stuartelden

A link to an interview I shared earlier this week, along with two co-authored texts by Latour in Society and Space – both available open access.

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Antipode volume 47, issue 2 – out now

Posted on February 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
It’s the first week of February and we’ve just published our March issue (!?)-Antipode 47:2. As you’ll see, there are some superb essays in this issue, and we’d like to take this opportunity to make…

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GCAS Interviews Prof. Michael O’Rourke

Posted on February 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on GCAS–The BLOG:
The Global Center for Advanced Studies is honored to interview Professor Michael O’Rourke. Q: How would you describe your research interests? Michael O’Rourke [M O’R]: I would describe my research interests as extremely promiscuous, a kind…

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Urbanism and Dictatorship. A European Perspective — New book out!

Posted on February 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on multipliciudades:
Urbanism and Dictatorship. A European Perspective, the new book of the renowned Bauwelt Fundamente series, is out. The volume has been edited by Max Welch Guerra, Harald Bodenschatz and Piero Sassi, and includes theoretical essays and…

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Foucault’s Les mots et les choses at 50 – conference at Harvard

Posted on February 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Les mots et les choses at Year 50: An International Conference – Friday, April 17, 2015, 12:00pm to Saturday, April 18, 2015, 6:30pm, The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, sponsored by History and Theory. Vincent Descombes is the keynote speaker. This … Continue reading →

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Volume 33, Issue 1 now out

Posted on February 5, 2015 by stuartelden

New issue of Society and Space out – including a review essay by me on recent work on territory.

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes – ‘Reliable referees: a rare commodity’ at New APPS

Posted on February 5, 2015 by stuartelden

At New APPS Catarina Dutilh Novaes reflects on a problem – ‘Reliable referees: a rare commodity‘. With this post, I want to bring up for discussion what I think is one of the main issues with the peer-reviewing system… namely the … Continue reading →

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