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CLIVE BARNETT, RIP

Posted on January 2, 2022 by stuartelden

Originally posted on andy merrifield:
When I heard the geographer Clive Barnett had passed away on Christmas Eve, it took me a while to reconcile that it was the Clive Barnett who’d died, the Clive Barnett I hadn’t seen for…

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My favourite academic books of 2021

Posted on January 1, 2022 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the previous year), and that I read and appreciated … Continue reading →

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My favourite music of 2021

Posted on January 1, 2022 by stuartelden

Alphabetical list of the music I enjoyed the most this year… Most bought on cd or blu-ray, though increasingly stuff on bandcamp too. Mostly rock, but also jazz, string quartets, ambient, solo piano, and probably the most peculiar/interesting thing I’ve … Continue reading →

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Interview with Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, Intolerable. Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980) (2021)

Posted on December 31, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Interview podcast with Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, editors of Intolerable. Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980), UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS 2021, New Books Network, Dec 20, 2021 Intolerable: Writings from…

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Mario Damen and Kim Overlaet (eds.), Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe – Amsterdam University Press, December 2021 (available open access)

Posted on December 29, 2021 by stuartelden

Mario Damen and Kim Overlaet (eds.), Constructing and Representing Territory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe – Amsterdam University Press, December 2021 The book is available open access In recent political and legal history, scholars seldom specify how and … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 31 now published (open access)

Posted on December 29, 2021 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 31 now published. As ever, all articles are open access. It includes a symposium on Richard Shusterman’s Ars Erotica and the collection of the Prison Information Group’s Intolerable, other articles and reviews. The entire issue can be downloaded … Continue reading →

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Books received – Kristeva, Santos, Moir, Puhvel

Posted on December 29, 2021 by stuartelden

Mainly bought second-hand for the new project, along with Milton Santos, For a New Geography, sent by University of Minnesota Press, and Cat Moir, Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism.

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The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990 (2021)

Posted on December 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Philipp Felsch, The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990, (Translated by Tony Crawford), Polity, 2021 ‘Theory’ – a magical glow has emanated from this word since the sixties. Theory was more than just…

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Milton Santos, The Nature of Space and For a New Geography, with a commentary at Progress in Political Economy [and discussion at New Books Network]

Posted on December 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Milton Santos, The Nature of Space, translated by Brenda Baletti (Duke, 2021). In The Nature of Space, pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos attends to globalization writ large and how local and global orders intersect in the construction of space. Santos offers a … Continue reading →

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Cat Moir, Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism – discussion, 14 December 2021

Posted on December 14, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Cat Moir,?Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics?– hardback Brill 2019; paperback?Haymarket, 2020 Discussion 14 December 2021, 5pm – details and registration here Update: the stream of this discussion will be here Cat Moir’s 2020…

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