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Louise Amoore, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others – Duke UP, May 2020 (and link to Introduction)

Posted on March 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Louise Amoore, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others – Duke University Press, May 2020. Great to see this book is imminent – the Introduction can be read here. In Cloud Ethics Louise Amoore examines how machine … Continue reading →

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NYU and Bologna talks cancelled

Posted on March 16, 2020 by stuartelden

Unfortunately two forthcoming talks, at New York University on 26 March 2020 and at the University of Bologna on 12 May 2020, have been cancelled. The organisers and I hope they can been rearranged for a later date. I cut my time … Continue reading →

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Books received – Cacciari, Webster, Shakespeare, Jardine, Butler, Lefebvre, Iyengar, Beaufret

Posted on February 29, 2020 by stuartelden

Mainly in recompense for review work for Bloomsbury, including the final volume of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series, and Alice Jardine’s biography of Julia Kristeva, along with Judith Butler’s new book The Force of Nonviolence, Henri Lefebvre, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche or the Realm … Continue reading →

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Books received – Dumézil, Sabot, Ehlers and Krupar, Hyppolite, Loraux et al, Beaufret, Landscape as Territory

Posted on February 29, 2020 by stuartelden

A mixed pile of things, mainly bought second-hand; along with two books I was sent – Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar, Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-Making, and Landscape as Territory, edited by Clara Olóriz Sanjuán. The last has a transcription of a … Continue reading →

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Mapping water conflicts

Posted on February 28, 2020 by stuartelden

http://www.worldwater.org/conflict/map/ – thanks to dmf for the link to this and the podcast in a previous post.

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Interstitial – Podcast on space and consequences of our designs

Posted on February 28, 2020 by stuartelden

Interstitial – Podcast on space and consequences of our designs Each episode features one author on a new book that offers critical ways of understanding the worlds we make. Transdisciplinary perspectives from across the arts, social sciences, and humanities every … Continue reading →

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The Undercommons and Destituent Power, Indiana University, March 26-28, 2020

Posted on February 28, 2020 by stuartelden

The Undercommons and Destituent Power, Indiana University, March 26-28, 2020 – full details here. On March 26-28, 2020, Indiana University’s annual Critical Ethnic Studies symposium will bring into dialogue two fields of insurgent study: the undercommons and destituent power. To … Continue reading →

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On Geographies of Violence: Michael Watts interviewed by Stuart Elden (Society and Space archive)

Posted on February 28, 2020 by stuartelden

On Geographies of Violence: Michael Watts interviewed by Stuart Elden An interview I did with Michael Watts a few years ago has been reposted on the Society and Space magazine site. Many thanks to Natalie Oswin for making this available … Continue reading →

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Books bought in Paris – Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Mbembe, Poitevin, Sabot, Sforzini

Posted on February 19, 2020 by stuartelden

I’ve tried to be fairly disciplined, given I’ve got to carry everything home, but a few books old and new that I’ve picked up over the past few weeks.

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The Raymond Williams Recordings

Posted on February 19, 2020 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Raymond Williams Society:
On the Raymond Williams Society blog for February we have details of a new project by Phil O’Brien on a fascinating collection of recordings of lectures and readings given by Williams in the…

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