Author Archives: 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.

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…

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 →

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 →

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 →

A few recently received books received – Sibylle Lacan’s book about her father, Jean-Paul Aron, Les modernes, Carceral Notebooks #12, Arun Iyer, Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures, and Jeannette Colombel’s book on Foucault. The Iyer was sent in recompense for review … Continue reading →