Author Archives: stuartelden

#DeleteAcademiaEdu: The Argument For Non-Profit Repositories

Posted on January 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Sarah E. Bond :
It has been a hectic morning attempting to read and respond to the flurry of activity surrounding my column this week over at Forbes, which argues that scholars should remove their work from the for-profit…

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Delete your academia.edu account… (there are other ways to share your work)

Posted on January 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Last night I did something I’ve been meaning to do for a while – I deleted my academia.edu account. A post by Kris Olds on Twitter linking to this story in Forbes was the spur. I have a page on … Continue reading →

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IBRU releases new Arctic map with sea ice changes

Posted on January 24, 2017 by stuartelden

IBRU: Centre for Borders Research at Durham University has released a new version of its widely used Arctic map. IBRU’s original Arctic map, first released in 2008 and revised several times since, was a landmark product that assimilated a variety of bathymetric … Continue reading →

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FIFTY-YEARS ON: The Right to the City

Posted on January 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on andy merrifield:
2017 marks the Golden Jubilee of Henri Lefebvre’s Right to the City, his “cry and demand” for a more participatory and democratic city life. It’s a cause both to celebrate and commiserate. But celebration and…

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Neil Brenner, Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays – now published

Posted on January 23, 2017 by stuartelden

Neil Brenner, Critique of Urbanization: Selected Essays – now published by Birkhäuser Verlag. It’s a collection of largely previously published essays, but several were in hard-to-find places, and it has some new material. Urbanization is transforming the planet, within and … Continue reading →

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The Early Foucault update 3: Another week at the Bibliothèque Nationale

Posted on January 23, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve just spent another week at the Bibliothèque Nationale manuscript room – newly renovated and now a dedicated space. This is at the older Richelieu site in the centre of the city. I worked through boxes relating to two key … Continue reading →

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Peter Gratton’s lectures from his New Derrida course

Posted on January 23, 2017 by stuartelden

At his Philosophy in a Time of Error blog, Peter Gratton is sharing the lectures from his New Derrida course – lecture one (introduction) and lecture two (‘The Animal’). [Update: Lecture three is here]. I won’t continually link to new lectures as they go … Continue reading →

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Goldsmiths Seminar Series – Rhythmanalysis: Everything You Always Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask

Posted on January 23, 2017 by stuartelden

This CHASE-funded seminar series foregrounds rhythm and rhythmanalysis by highlighting their relevance and richness as methodological perspectives and practices within the humanities. The six sessions will explore various approaches to time and rhythm as those found in the work of key critical theorists, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Binswanger, Canguilhem, Lacan

Posted on January 23, 2017 by stuartelden

Some books for the new Foucault project – works by Georges Canguilhem and Jacques Lacan, picked up in Paris, and Jacqueline Verdeaux’s translation of Ludwig Binswanger’s Dream and Existence which Foucault advised and introduced.

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Save the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University – sign the petition

Posted on January 22, 2017 by stuartelden

Save the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University – sign the petition here. Update 20.25 – I’ve been made aware that the situation is much more complicated than the petition suggests, and that the restructuring may be for quite … Continue reading →

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