Monthly Archives: October 2017

Political Philosophy meets Politics, Bristol, 30 October 2017

Posted on October 5, 2017 by stuartelden

Political Philosophy meets Politics, Bristol, 30 October 2017, 9am-5pm What happens when political philosophers get involved in politics? The only way to find out is to ask them; to have them tell their story, and share whatever lessons they’ve learnt … Continue reading →

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Mustafa Dikeç, Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded forthcoming with Yale University Press.

Posted on October 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Mustafa Dikeç, Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded forthcoming with Yale University Press. A timely and incisive examination of contemporary urban unrest that explains why riots will continue until citizens are equally treated and politically included In the past few … Continue reading →

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Vincent Blok, Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology: Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene

Posted on October 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Vincent Blok, Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology: Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene – looks interesting, but unfortunately another Routledge book at a prohibitive price. This book examines the work of Ernst Jünger and its effect on the development … Continue reading →

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You Should Learn Descriptive Bibliography

Posted on October 3, 2017 by stuartelden

A fascinating post about descriptive bibliography – something else I’ve been thinking about with the Shakespeare work, and the use of archives and rare book rooms.

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the media of thinking and arguing: paper, dust, discs and the cloud

Posted on October 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on visual/method/culture:
I started a new job on 1 October as Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford, so over the summer I cleared out my office at The Open University. I’ve been at…

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Adam David Morton, The Architecture of ‘Passive Revolution’: Society, State and Space in Modern Mexico

Posted on October 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Adam David Morton, ‘The Architecture of ‘Passive Revolution’: Society, State and Space in Modern Mexico‘, Journal of Latin American Studies (requires subscription). Adam discusses the piece at the Progress in Political Economy blog. This article analyses the political economy of Henri … Continue reading →

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Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on Painting – forthcoming in November 2017 with University of Minnesota Press

Posted on October 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on Painting – forthcoming in November 2017 with University of Minnesota Press. A timely exploration of Foucault’s art historical and philosophical engagement with painting as knowledge Catherine M. Soussloff argues that Michel Foucault’s sustained engagement with … Continue reading →

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Shannon Mattern, Mapping’s Intelligent Agents

Posted on October 2, 2017 by stuartelden

A very interesting piece in Places journal – Shannon Mattern, “Mapping’s Intelligent Agents“. Thanks to Jenny Edkins for the link. Self-driving cars have sparked a “billion dollar war over maps,” but the cars are the most boring thing about it. … Continue reading →

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Bernard Harcourt’s legal work – ‘The Long Defense of the Alabama Death-Row Prisoner Doyle Lee Hamm’

Posted on October 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Most readers of this blog will, I guess, know Bernard Harcourt for his work editing Michel Foucault’s early Collège de France lectures or the 1981 course in Louvain, and his own writings. He also edits the Carceral Notebooks which I … Continue reading →

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Hannah and Martin – play on the Arendt/Heidegger relation, 27-29 Nov, London

Posted on October 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Hannah and Martin – play on the Arendt/Heidegger relation, 27-29 Nov, London by Joan Nederlof, Lineke Rijxman and Willem de Wolf 27 – 29 November, 7.30pm £20 / £15 Based on the true story of the secret love affair between … Continue reading →

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