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René Girard – tribute from the Stanford news service

Posted on November 5, 2015 by stuartelden

The theorist and historian René Girard died yesterday. There is a good obituary which discusses his important work at the Stanford news service. Thanks to Robert Tally for the first alert to this story. Update: also a brief piece at the Stanford … Continue reading →

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AAG Names Judith Butler as the 2016 Honorary Geographer

Posted on November 5, 2015 by stuartelden

AAG Names Judith Butler as the 2016 Honorary Geographer – news here. Here’s one key paragraph. AAG Past President Mona Domosh will confer the 2016 AAG Honorary Geographer Award upon Judith Butler at the 2016 AAG Annual Meeting in San Francisco during … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory’s tribute to Edward Soja

Posted on November 5, 2015 by stuartelden

A lovely piece by Derek Gregory remembering Edward Soja at Geographical Imaginations.

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Books received – Nietzsche, Sloterdijk, Han, Saramago, Shakespeare, Couture, Dardot and Laval

Posted on November 4, 2015 by stuartelden

A mix of books recently received. Nietzsche’s Le livre du philosophe, Sloterdijk’s Stress and Freedom, Han’s The Transparency Society and The Burnout Society, Saramago’s The Notebook, the Penguin Macbeth, Jean-Pierre Couture’s book on Sloterdijk (which I endorsed), and Dardot and Laval’s The … Continue reading →

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Is Reviewer Fatigue a Real Thing?

Posted on November 4, 2015 by stuartelden

Some interesting discussion of why people decline review requests, based on data from American Political Science Review.

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Eyal Weizman, “Forensic Architecture” video of 2015 Wall Exchange lecture at UBC

Posted on November 4, 2015 by stuartelden

Eyal Weizman, “Forensic Architecture” video of 2015 Wall Exchange lecture UBC (via Derek Gregory’s Geographical Imaginations.) Can architecture provide new tools of political analysis and intervention? This question is central to the work of Eyal Weizman, Israeli architect and scholar. … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Visual Art- links and resources at Heterotopian Studies

Posted on November 4, 2015 by stuartelden

The Heterotopian Studies site has a useful resource page on ‘Foucault and Visual Art‘, providing links to images which Foucault discusses, along with a bibliography. As well as the obvious – Magritte, Picasso, Velázquez – it also has links to Foucault’s … Continue reading →

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Pierre Macherey, ‘The Productive Subject’ in Viewpoint magazine

Posted on November 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Pierre Macherey, ‘The Productive Subject‘ in Viewpoint magazine – an interesting discussion of Foucault’s relation to Marx. [Update: a French version is here]

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Remembering Edward Soja (1940-2015)

Posted on November 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Murray Low has passed on the sad news of the death of Edward Soja. I first heard him talk on Postmodern Geographies in 1995 – this would have been work that ended up in Thirdspace – and the talk really motivated … Continue reading →

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‘The Territories and Majesty of Shakespeare’s King John’ – talks at Warwick 3 November and UCL 23 November

Posted on November 2, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ll be giving a talk with the title of ‘The Territories and Majesty of Shakespeare’s King John’ twice over the next couple of weeks. This lecture will discuss Shakespeare’s play King John around two themes – the question of majesty and … Continue reading →

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