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New Materialism: Politics, Aesthetics, Science video – University of Westminster 10 March 2016

Posted on March 30, 2016 by stuartelden

University of Westminster 10 March 2016 – New Materialism: Politics, Aesthetics, Science event video New Materialism is currently having a profound effect across disciplines. Rooted in post-marxist thinking, but spreading out on the flat ontology of networks, objects and bodies, … Continue reading →

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Publishing a monograph: interview with Stylish Academic

Posted on March 29, 2016 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Dr Charlotte Mathieson:
Following the publication of my monograph a few months ago, I recently spoke to Tee at Stylish Academic about the process of writing and getting published as an early career researcher. We talked about…

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Foucault and the Political Party (2015)

Posted on March 29, 2016 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault and the Political Party 20th March 2015 | 11:00 – 11:45 Audio, podcast on the Voice Republic site Marcelo Hoffman holds a PhD from the University of Denver, and has taught at…

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Michel Serres’s The Parasite: A Reader’s Guide. 148 page document to download

Posted on March 29, 2016 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Christopher Watkin:
Over the past few weeks I have been working my way through Michel Serres’s 1980 Le Parasite: a dense, poetic, brilliant text that seeks to tear down and rebuild the way we think about everything. In…

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Call for Papers – The Gentrification of the Political

Posted on March 24, 2016 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Gentrification of the Political:
‘The Gentrification of the Political’ A Workshop at the University of Kent School of Politics & International Relations 6th & 7th June 2016 Gentrification, as an urban phenomenon, is one of the…

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London Review of International Law annual lecture 2017

Posted on March 24, 2016 by stuartelden

I will be giving the London Review of International Law annual lecture in 2017. As the invitation said: Just to put this in some kind of context, the previous Annual Lectures have been delivered by Judith Butler (‘Human Shields’), Sheila Jasanoff … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory and Mimi Sheller’s tributes to John Urry

Posted on March 23, 2016 by stuartelden

Derek Gregory has written a very nice tribute to John Urry on his Geographical Imaginations site. There is also a tribute by Mimi Sheller on Facebook.

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John Urry (1946-2016) – announcement at the Lancaster Sociology website

Posted on March 22, 2016 by stuartelden

Very sad news about John Urry, who died on Friday. Announcement at the Lancaster Sociology website. Perhaps best known for The Tourist Gaze, the book of his that had most impact on me was Economies of Signs and Spaces, written with Scott … Continue reading →

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Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Strategic Coupling: East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy

Posted on March 22, 2016 by stuartelden

Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Strategic Coupling: East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy, out shortly from Cornell University Press. In Strategic Coupling, Henry Wai-chung Yeung examines economic development and state-firm relations in East Asia, focusing in particular on South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. … Continue reading →

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Geoff Bennington on the new edition of Of Grammatology

Posted on March 22, 2016 by stuartelden

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Bennington’s essay sadly matched my own feelings when I received the book a couple of weeks ago: I checked the places that were notorious for mistranslation and they were still there…

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