Monthly Archives: July 2015

Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance: Uncollected Interviews – edited by Richard G. Smith and David B. Clarke

Posted on July 14, 2015 by stuartelden

A chance encounter with Richard Smith at the British Library alerted me to this new collection: Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance: Uncollected Interviews – edited by Richard G. Smith and David B. Clarke. This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful … Continue reading →

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“Reconfiguring Global Space: The Geography, Politics, and Ethics of Drone Warfare” Live Stream

Posted on July 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life:
For folks who are unable to be in Bloomington, “Reconfiguring Global Space: The Geography, Politics, and Ethics of Drone Warfare” will be live streaming presentations beginning today at…

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Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy – available to pre-order

Posted on July 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Not out until February 2016, and not yet on the Verso site, but Henri Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy is listed on PenguinRandomHouse and at a certain online store. David Fernbach did the translation, and I edited the text, compiled the notes and wrote an … Continue reading →

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London Critical Theory Summer School 2015 Friday Debate II audio recording – Costas Douzinas, Stephen Frosh, Jacqueline Rose, Esther Leslie and Slavoj Zizek

Posted on July 14, 2015 by stuartelden

London Critical Theory Summer School 2015 Friday Debate II – Introduction and summing up the 2nd week by by Costas Douzinas, Stephen Frosh, Jacqueline Rose, Esther Leslie and Slavoj Zizek. Audio recording available here.

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Margaret Moore, A Political Theory of Territory, reviewed by Tamar Meisels at NDPR.

Posted on July 14, 2015 by stuartelden

The book I mentioned last week, Margaret Moore, A Political Theory of Territory, is reviewed by Tamar Meisels at NDPR. I’ve yet to read Moore’s book, but it seems striking from the review that the work is conducted as an internal debate … Continue reading →

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Draft Translation of Fourquet and Murard’s “La Ville-Ordinateur”

Posted on July 13, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
As I mentioned last week, this is the essay that kicked off Recherches 13 (1973) and is the context for the two conversations involving Deleuze, Guattari, Foucualt, and Fourquet that are published as texts 129…

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Sanjay Chaturvedi, Timothy Doyle – Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change

Posted on July 13, 2015 by stuartelden

Sanjay Chaturvedi, Timothy Doyle, Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change, recently out with Palgrave. Climate Terror investigates the highly differentiated geographical politics of global warming. It explores how fear-inducing climate change discourses could result in new forms of dependencies, domination and militarized … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade Update 25 – resubmission of revised manuscript

Posted on July 13, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade is now back with the press, in what I hope is its final form. It is scheduled for publication in spring 2016. The first update on this book’s writing was made on July 22 2013 –almost exactly … Continue reading →

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The Metric Tide – report on higher education research and teaching assessment

Posted on July 13, 2015 by stuartelden

James Wilsdon reports on research metrics, and their wider application in higher education, in The Guardian. The full report can be downloaded here. Over the past fifteen months, I’ve been chairing an independent review of the role of metrics in the research … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on July 12, 2015 by stuartelden

“Let UK universities do what they do best – teaching and research” – Letter from 121 professors in The Guardian David Harvey, Wendy Brown, Étienne Balibar discuss neoliberalism, capitalism and Marx Jeffrey Jerome Cohen on ‘Creativity, Routine, Writing Lockdowns, and the Necessity … Continue reading →

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