Monthly Archives: April 2017

The textual issues around Foucault’s ‘What is an Author?’

Posted on April 11, 2017 by stuartelden

While it is somewhat outside the time period I am currently working on, Foucault’s ‘What is an Author?’ lecture is interesting because it is one of the few instances for which there is a textual record of an engagement between … Continue reading →

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It seems Jacques Lacan struggled to get his students to do the reading too…

Posted on April 10, 2017 by stuartelden

Last time I wanted to give you an initial insight into the meaning of the question – what happens beyond the pleasure principle? My great friend Jean Hyppolite, who isn’t here today because he is in Germany, told me he … Continue reading →

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Unpaywall – a Chrome and Firefox plugin to find open access versions of articles

Posted on April 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Unpaywall is a new Chrome and Firefox plugin to find open access versions of articles. If you go to a journal article webpage with this installed, then it will give you a green logo on the right side of your browser if … Continue reading →

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Five apps I find really useful for my writing and blogging

Posted on April 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Five apps I find really useful – Evernote – Dropbox – Sanebox – Feedly – WasteNoTime Evernote – I use this as my main repository for notes, links, lists, etc. I appreciate that you can clip websites directly to it, or email things…

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Christopher Watkin’s research hacks #10, 11 and 12

Posted on April 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Christopher Watkin’s Research Hacks series continues. #10: How to present a smart, well-crafted argument #11: Let your arguments breathe #12: Seven ways of keeping up to date with developments in your field The whole series is useful, but #12 has some … Continue reading →

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The pace of academic life is not the problem—the lack of autonomy is – LSE Impact Blog

Posted on April 7, 2017 by stuartelden

The pace of academic life is not the problem—the lack of autonomy is – LSE Impact Blog To many disgruntled with the quantification of scholarship, its impossible demands and meaningless metrics, it is the heightened pace of academic life that … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lacan, Freud and Earth, Tree and Traffic from the Object Lessons series

Posted on April 5, 2017 by stuartelden

Second-hand copies of Lacan’s Ecrits (the old Sheridan translation) and Freud’s Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious; along with Earth, Tree and Traffic from Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series, sent by the publisher. Earth looks especially interesting – not just … Continue reading →

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Lecture on Khôra, Place, and Metaphysics

Posted on April 5, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Here is an audio of my keynote at the University of Windsor this past weekend. I had a wonderful reception (actually that’s a key term I take up), and I should say…

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The Early Foucault update 5: Canguilhem, Merleau-Ponty, Politzer, Lacan…

Posted on April 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Until about a week ago I was focusing on the terrain work, for the London Review of International Law lecture, the conference in Oslo, and the lecture in Maynooth. But in and around other things I was also doing a … Continue reading →

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Mapping the Topographic Fingerprints of Humanity Across Earth

Posted on April 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Mapping the Topographic Fingerprints of Humanity Across Earth – Eos An interesting piece on anthropogeomorphology and terrain.

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