Author Archives: stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Altering cartographies of climate change, Royal Academy, London, 15 April 2019, 6.30-8pm A panel discussion looking at both material and imagined borders, and the ways in which global warming challenges Western conceptions of territory. In…

Katarzyna Lecky, Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance – OUP, 2019 This is the latest in the Early Modern Literary Geographies series. Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes … Continue reading →

Viet Thanh Nguyen – How not to bore your audience at a reading Although this advice is for literary readings, there is a lot here that should be useful for academic presentations too.

FWJ Schelling, The Ages of the World (1811) – SUNY Press 2019, translated by Joseph P. Lawrence The first English translation of the first of three versions of this unfinished work by Schelling. In 1810, after establishing a reputation as … Continue reading →

David Beer, Portraits of a Pulsating Life: Georg Simmel’s Encounter with Rembrandt – at Berfrois Georg Simmel’s Concluding Thoughts: Worlds, Lives, Fragments is now out with Palgrave. In May 1913, German sociologist Georg Simmel wrote to the poet and essayist Margarete … Continue reading →

Originally posted on multipliciudades:
So, I am breaking the silence on this blog again to share the good news that Martín Arboleda’s Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism will finally be out with Verso early next year —…