Author Archives: stuartelden

Beginning work on the revision of Shakespearean Territories – and the climb that awaits at the end of it

Posted on July 17, 2017 by stuartelden

Today I begin work on the revisions for Shakespearean Territories. At the end of this work – in about three weeks’ time – I’m off to Provence for a week of cycling, including Mont Ventoux.

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Prof. Anne Buttimer RIP

Posted on July 17, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Ireland after NAMA:
A message from Niamh Moore-Cherry, President of the Geographical Society of Ireland: “It is with sadness that I am letting you know that Prof Anne Buttimer died this morning, July 15. She had been…

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‘Edward Said’s ideas about power and identity still resonate today’ – CBC radio

Posted on July 17, 2017 by stuartelden

‘Edward Said’s ideas about power and identity still resonate today’ – CBC radio interview from 1993. Edward Said is considered to have been one of the world’s most eminent cultural and literary critics. A Palestinian Christian Arab who moved to the … Continue reading →

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Books received – Freud, Carceral Notebooks 12, Derrida, Latour, Eribon

Posted on July 17, 2017 by stuartelden

Two volumes of the Penguin Freud library, issue 12 of the Carceral Notebooks; the most recently published Derrida seminar, Théorie et pratique; Bruno Latour’s Facing Gaia and a second-hand copy of Didier Eribon’s Michel Foucault et ses contemporains. The Latour was … Continue reading →

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Eyal Weizman, Vertical Apartheid in Israel-Palestine – new preface (open access) to Hollow Land

Posted on July 13, 2017 by stuartelden

Eyal Weizman, ‘Vertical Apartheid in Israel-Palestine‘ a new preface (open access) to the re-edition of his classic Hollow Land.

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Christopher Watkin’s Research hack #21: One to-do list to rule them all

Posted on July 13, 2017 by stuartelden

Christopher Watkin’s Research hack #21: One to-do list to rule them all Another useful post in this series.

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Why you should double-check references…

Posted on July 13, 2017 by stuartelden

I have long made a point of trying to avoid references of the form ‘X cited in Y’ (see Eleven Thoughts on Reading and Citing), at least without first checking source X. Having spent quite a bit of time recently … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, ‘Homère, les récits, l’éducation, les discours’ edited by Martin Rueff in NRF (and a question)

Posted on July 11, 2017 by stuartelden

Another piece of Foucault from the archive was published last year – Michel Foucault, ‘Homère, les récits, l’éducation, les discours‘ edited by Martin Rueff in NRF. Apparently these notes date from the drafting of The Archaeology of Knowledge. I’ve ordered a copy … Continue reading →

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La force du vrai. De Foucault à Austin (2017)

Posted on July 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Daniele Lorenzini, La force du vrai. De Foucault à Austin Le bord de l’eau Format 13×20 cm – 156 p. – 20 € Isbn 9782356875310 Collection « diagnostics » dirigee par Fabienne brugere & Guillaume…

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David Harvey, Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason – forthcoming in August

Posted on July 7, 2017 by stuartelden

David Harvey, Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason forthcoming in August Marx’s Capital is one of the most important texts of the modern era. The three volumes, published between 1867 and 1883, changed the destiny of countries, politics … Continue reading →

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