Author Archives: stuartelden

An interesting piece giving the background to Charles Withers’s recent appointment as Geographer Royal for Scotland.

A new initiative for academics submitting to journals, directed at saving people and papers from “predatory” publishers.

12 Critical Theory books that came out in September – another helpful roundup from critical-theory.com… Massumi, Bargu, Nail, Benjamin, etc.

Review of Jacob Taubes’ Occidental Eschatology and From Cult to Culture at An und für sich by Anthony Paul Smith. Below is a long review of two of Jacob Taubes’ recently (relatively) translated works. This was originally written for a journal, but … Continue reading →

BBC News has a story on Alisdair Pinkerton and Noam Leshom’s research project into historical and current examples of No Man’s Land. What exactly is No Man’s Land? It may be the space on a battlefield between two opposing front lines, a … Continue reading →

Foucault’s nephew, Henri Paul Fruchaud, has done some valuable work editing his texts in the last few years. This interview with a local paper says a bit about his uncle’s work habits, but also gives a couple of anecdotes that are somewhat … Continue reading →

‘The refugee problem is a foreshadowing of the 21st century’s great migration’ (“Nanmin mondai ha 21 seiku minzoku daiidô no zenchô da”, an interview by H.Uno, originally published on 17 August 1979, in Shûkan posuto, pp. 34-35) republished under the title … Continue reading →