Monthly Archives: May 2015

Representations of space through colours – a request for help

Posted on May 20, 2015 by stuartelden

An inquiry from a colleague: How can we think about representations of space through colours? Can people refer recommended sources that examine the use of colours as metaphors for and representations of space? This is not about race – i.e. … Continue reading →

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Governing Emergencies workshop – Emergency and Disaster Publics

Posted on May 19, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Governing Emergencies:
We’re pleased to announce details of the second Governing Emergencies workshop on Emergency and Disaster Publics. It will take place in Rotterdam on the 4th and 5th June 2015. For the first day of the workshop, we…

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Christy Wampole, The Conference Manifesto in The New York Times

Posted on May 19, 2015 by stuartelden

Christy Wampole, ‘The Conference Manifesto’ in The New York Times. It first diagnoses a problem, then outlines some potential solutions. Here’s the beginning… We are weary of academic conferences. We are humanists who recognize very little humanity in the conference format … Continue reading →

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West Point and the war on Ebola

Posted on May 19, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
I’ve taken this map from a Situation Report issued by the World Health Organisation on 6 May, which superimposes new cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) over total confirmed cases throughout the epidemic in West…

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Adam David Morton on ‘Blogging as Pedagogy’ with the example of Piketty’s Capital at Progress in Political Economy

Posted on May 19, 2015 by stuartelden

Adam David Morton on ‘Blogging as Pedagogy‘ at Progress in Political Economy – drawing on his experience of blogging about and teaching Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

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Foucault books: update 23 – working with the Semiotext(e) archive

Posted on May 19, 2015 by stuartelden

I have now finished working through all the papers in Sylvère Lotringer’s Semiotext(e) archive in the Fales Library at New York University which have a relation to this project. In among a lot of things that were of little interest, … Continue reading →

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David Kishik, The Manhattan Project – what would have happened had Walter Benjamin not died?

Posted on May 19, 2015 by stuartelden

David Kishik, The Manhattan Project: A Theory of a City. In The Manhattan Project, David Kishik dares to imagine a Walter Benjamin who did not commit suicide in 1940, but managed instead to escape the Nazis to begin a long, solitary … Continue reading →

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Talking to anthropologists, urbanists and architects about territory

Posted on May 18, 2015 by stuartelden

While Foucault and Shakespeare are my focus for new material, I’ll be giving a few talks on territory – two in New York in the next two weeks, and then one back in London in the autumn: 21 May 2015, … Continue reading →

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CFP – A research workshop on discourse analysis, New Materialisms and the ‘practice turn’ in the social sciences, 12 June 2015, University of Warwick

Posted on May 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Call for papers: Mind the gap, please! – A research workshop on discourse analysis, New Materialisms and the ‘practice turn’ in the social sciences 12 June 2015, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick Keynote speaker: Claudia Aradau, King’s College London … Continue reading →

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Roberto Esposito, Persons and Things: From the Body’s Point of View

Posted on May 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Roberto Esposito, Persons and Things: From the Body’s Point of View, now out from Polity. What is the relationship between persons and things? And how does the body transform this relationship? In this highly original new book, Roberto Esposito – one … Continue reading →

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