Author Archives: stuartelden

Territory – The Map is Not…

Posted on May 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Thanks to dmf for pointing me to this intriguing project: Territory – themapisnot.com Territory is a literary project about territories and the maps that will always fail to capture them. It’s about the naive dream of objectivity, and how we use … Continue reading →

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Another critique of academia.edu – at Diggit Magazine

Posted on May 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Another critique of academia.edu – ‘The end of Academia.edu: how business takes over, again‘ at Diggit Magazine. See also my post from earlier this year ‘Delete your academia.edu account… (there are other ways to share your work)‘ and the comments to … Continue reading →

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Our Digital Rights to the City

Posted on May 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
http://meatspacepress.org/#download “‘Our Digital Rights to the City’ is a small collection of articles about digital technology, data and the city. It covers a range of topics relating to the political and economic power of technologies…

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Kurt Iveson, ‘Digital labourers of the city, unite!’ at PPE

Posted on May 1, 2017 by stuartelden

Kurt Iveson, ‘Digital labourers of the city, unite!’ at Progress in Political Economy. For growing numbers of urban inhabitants, smartphones and their mobile apps have become essential tools for everyday life. In the decade since smartphones first became popularised, many millions … Continue reading →

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Writing a book on Georges Canguilhem for Polity’s Key Contemporary Thinkers series

Posted on April 28, 2017 by stuartelden

As part of my research on the very early Foucault, I’ve been looking at the work of some of his teachers and other inspirations. One of those figures was Georges Canguilhem, who ended up being the rapporteur for Foucault’s doctoral … Continue reading →

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Terrain’s Volume – video of my lecture to the Technologies of Space symposium in Oslo

Posted on April 28, 2017 by stuartelden

Terrain’s Volume – video of my lecture to the Technologies of Space: Verticality, Volume, Infrastructure symposium in Oslo in March 2017. The overall introduction is by Liv Hausken; the introduction to my lecture is by Susanne Østby Sather. The version here doesn’t show … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory’s tribute to geography editor John Davey

Posted on April 28, 2017 by stuartelden

Derek Gregory has written a nice tribute to geography editor John Davey, who died recently. Davey worked with Edward Arnold and Blackwell, and published David Harvey’s early books, as well as many others, including Derek’s Geographical Imaginations. I didn’t know him in person, … Continue reading →

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The answer is – Giorgio Agamben

Posted on April 28, 2017 by stuartelden

The answer to last night’s question ‘Which one of these social theorists and philosophers have I not heard speak?‘ is Giorgio Agamben. He was supposed to be at a conference I attended, but cancelled, and I’ve never had another chance. Thanks to those … Continue reading →

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Which one of these social theorists and philosophers have I not heard speak?

Posted on April 27, 2017 by stuartelden

  There is a Facebook meme at the moment, where people list several bands or singers, all but one of which they have seen perform live. But I like Simon Glendinning’s version. So, which one of these social theorists and philosophers have … Continue reading →

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Deborah Cowen interviewed by Haley Markbreiter at Full Stop

Posted on April 27, 2017 by stuartelden

Deborah Cowen interviewed by Haley Markbreiter at Full Stop: In my favorite Google Image search result for “Deborah Cowen,” she is posed against scaffolding. The picture, like Cowen, is funny, and to the point: she is, after all, a scholar of … Continue reading →

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