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Inequality in The 21st Century: A Day Long Engagement with Thomas Piketty – video recordings available

Posted on June 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Via The Sociological Imagination – video recordings of an LSE event in May 2015 – Inequality in The 21st Century: A Day Long Engagement with Thomas Piketty. Speakers include: Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, Professor Wendy Carlin,  Professor Sir John Hills, Professor Naila Kabeer, Professor Thomas Piketty, Professor Stephanie … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley – tracing the people in the ‘cowboy hat’ photograph

Posted on June 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
In Didier Eribon’s biography of Foucault, there is a picture of Foucault in a cowboy hat, together with Paul Rabinow and some students at Berkeley. The hat was a gift from the students. This group…

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Simon Springer and David Harvey debate Marxism, anarchism and Geography

Posted on June 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Simon Springer – “Why a radical geography must be anarchist“, Dialogues in Human Geography 4: 249-270 (needs subscription or available at academia.edu) David Harvey – “Listen, Anarchist!” A personal response to Simon Springer’s “Why a radical geography must be anarchist” website or pdf … Continue reading →

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Aleppo and ISIS’s State Ambitions: World Heritage on the Territorial Horizon (June 10, 2015)

Posted on June 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Terri-Stories:
As others have noted, perhaps the most striking thing about the rise of ISIS (aka the Islamic State) is that it is fundamentally motivated by territorial, rather than merely terrorist ambitions. While Islamist groups such as…

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Peter Kirwan on the Shakespeare Apocrypha at Warwick’s Sidelights on Shakespeare

Posted on June 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Fascinating talk at Warwick today by Peter Kirwan on “The Incomplete Works of William Shakespeare: Handling the Apocrypha“, as part of the Sidelights on Shakespeare lecture programme. The talk related to his just published book Shakespeare and the Idea of Apocrypha: Negotiating … Continue reading →

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Books received – Free Will, Shakespeare’s Storms and Discourse Theory and Political Analysis

Posted on June 9, 2015 by stuartelden

In recompense for review work for Manchester University Press – Richard Wilson, Free Will: Art and power on Shakespeare’s stage; Gwilym Jones, Shakespeare’s Storms and Discourse Theory and Political Analysis.

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Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger – out in June 2015 from Meson Press

Posted on June 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger – out in June 2015 from Meson Press. The book was translated by Kenneth Mills, and edited and introduced by me. It will be open access online … Continue reading →

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Major conference on Foucault at the Collège de France, Cerisy-la-Salle 11-18 June 2015

Posted on June 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Major conference on Foucault at the Collège de France, Cerisy-la-Salle 11-18 June 2015, with lots of good speakers including Judith Revel and Pierre Macherey. Les leçons de Michel Foucault au Collège de France, prononcées entre 1971 et 1984, constituent une somme … Continue reading →

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Michel Serres app now available on Google Play

Posted on June 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Christopher Watkin:
I’ve written a little app to aggregate information from around the web (news, Twitter, Youtube, Google Scholar, Google Trends…) on Michel Serres. It’s nothing flash but it allows me quickly to scan various sources to…

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Books received – Foucault, Toscano and Kinkle, Edkins, Keighren, Withers and Bell

Posted on June 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Travels into Print: Exploration, Writing and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859, sent by the publisher; Jenny Edkins, Face Politics, which I endorsed; Toscano and Kinkle’s Cartographies of the Absolute; the first and second editions of Foucault’s Naissance de la clinique (1963 and … Continue reading →

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