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General bibliography on open-plan office design (2015)

Posted on June 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Refracted Input:
Still from Jacques Tati’s film Playtime (1967) I have put together a general – but still very select – bibliography of material on open-plan office design, which you can download as a PDF. All items…

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Two Uses of Michel Foucault in Political Theory: Concepts and Methods in Giorgio Agamben and Ian Hacking (2015)

Posted on June 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Colin Koopman, ‘Two Uses of Michel Foucault in Political Theory: Concepts and Methods in Giorgio Agamben and Ian Hacking’, Constellations (1), 0 Article first published online: 19 MAY 2015 DOI: 10.1111/1467-8675.12153 First paragraph in lieu…

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“Exercises in the History of Ideas”: An Interview with Stuart Elden by Dale Leorke and Suneel Jethani at the Theory, Culture and Society website

Posted on June 1, 2015 by stuartelden

“Exercises in the History of Ideas”: An Interview with Stuart Elden by Dale Leorke and Suneel Jethani at the Theory, Culture and Society website – open access. This is an edited version of an interview conducted last year in Melbourne … Continue reading →

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Books received 4 – various: Meillassoux, Trawny, Eco, Butler, Krell, Naas, Funambulist papers, journals

Posted on June 1, 2015 by stuartelden

And everything else that was in the pile of post as I returned from the US. Umberto Eco’s How to Write a Thesis; Quentin Meillassoux’s Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction; Peter Trawny’s Freedom to Fail: Heidegger’s Anarchy; The Funambulist Papers Volume 2 (in which … Continue reading →

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Books received 3 – books from publishers or authors

Posted on June 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Complementary copies from publishers or authors. Mark Salter’s Making Things International 1, Christopher Roth’s Let’s Split! – a guide to secessionist states; Oli Mould’s Urban Subversion and the Creative City; Hughes Lethierry’s Agir avec Henri Lefebvre and Shannon Mattern’s Deep Mapping the Media City. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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Books received 2 – various things for the Foucault projects

Posted on June 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Books received – various things for the Foucault projects, including the new lecture course, background on May 68 and the abortion rights struggle in France, one of Foucault’s major sources on the revolt of the Nu-pieds, and a book about his … Continue reading →

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Books received – review work for Routledge: Marcuse, Pugliese, Valverde, Barry and Born, and Parker

Posted on June 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Books received in recompense for review work for Routledge: Marcuse, Pugliese, Valverde, Barry and Born, and Parker.

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Wilderness Group Tour: PhD dissertations and writing/support/accountablity groups

Posted on May 31, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The page “Newfoundland Literature” does not exist:
I was recently asked to make a brief presentation about dissertation writing/support groups. I was one of four presenters at a workshop hosted by the University of Toronto’s School of…

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Top posts this week on Progressive Geographies

Posted on May 31, 2015 by stuartelden

Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? – reading guide updated with news of forthcoming translations Foucault and Neoliberalism – a few thoughts in response to the Zamora piece in Jacobin The Philosopher’s Jumper – apparently modelled by Beckett, Foucault and … Continue reading →

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How Do We Write? Two reflections on ‘dysfunctional academic writing’

Posted on May 31, 2015 by stuartelden

How Do We Write? Two very interesting reflections on ‘dysfunctional academic writing’ at In the Middle. A conversation has unfolded on Facebook over the last week on the topic of How We Write. Two of us who were involved in … Continue reading →

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