Author Archives: stuartelden

Antipode’s 5th Institute for the Geographies of Justice – application deadline 31st January

Posted on January 16, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Antipode’s 5th Institute for the Geographies of Justice 21st-27th June 2015, Johannesburg, South Africa ‘Occupying Radical Geography’ Antipode’s 5th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ) will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa from 21st to…

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The Politics of the UK HE Marking Boycott – Part IV: The Betrayal

Posted on January 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
The farce of UCU’s “resistance” to universities’ attack on employees’ pensions is now reaching its inevitable climax (see Part I, Part II and Part III for background). Readers may recall that the crisis…

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Tim Ingold on the “Life of Lines” – Radio interview and new book

Posted on January 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
An interesting BBC Radio interview with Tim Ingold on Lines. Listen here. The interview anticipates Ingold’s new book, The Life of Lines, which is due out soon. Here is a description from the publisher’s…

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CFP: Deleuze and Guattari in the Anthropocene – special issue Deleuze Studies

Posted on January 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Call for papers, special issue Deleuze Studies – “Deleuze and Guattari in the Anthropocene” – full details in pdf. This special issue of Deleuze Studies will engage the many philosophical tools provided by Deleuze and Guattari and their interlocutors in … Continue reading →

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Colin Gordon, Foucault, neoliberalism etc. (2015)

Posted on January 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
A Foucault News exclusive. Colin Gordon, Foucault, neoliberalism etc. Full PDF of article  First two pages The recent online debate triggered by the Ballast interview (translated in Jacobin) with Daniel Zamora will no doubt have…

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Latour’s obituary for Ulrich Beck

Posted on January 15, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Object-Oriented Philosophy:
And in ArtForum, of all places. You can find it HERE. (Hat tip, Nathan G.)

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‘Maurice Florence’ on Michel Foucault – the missing opening paragraph

Posted on January 14, 2015 by stuartelden

One of the things I’ve been doing with the Foucault’s Last Decade project is checking the original publication of texts in several instances, rather than relying on the reprints in Dits et écrits. Sometimes this is because the company Foucault … Continue reading →

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CFP Contested Spaces of Citizenship – Durham, 29 April 2015

Posted on January 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Postgraduate Conference: CONTESTED SPACES OF CITIZENSHIP Durham University, Department of Geography, 29 April 2015 Keynote speaker: Professor Engin F. Isin Space is at the core of political struggles and contestations. Brown (2010) highlights how borders and territory are, almost paradoxically, increasingly important … Continue reading →

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Ebola in Sierra Leone: News from the Frontline – Peter Penfold at African Arguments

Posted on January 14, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve not been updating the Ebola reading list much recently, but this is an interesting piece on ‘Ebola in Sierra Leone‘ by Peter Penfold, former British High Commissioner to the country.

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Kathleen Biddick, Make and Let Die: Untimely Sovereignties – forthcoming from Punctum Books

Posted on January 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Kathleen Biddick’s Make and Let Die: Untimely Sovereignties is forthcoming from Punctum Books. This collection of essays by one of medieval studies’ most brilliant and prescient historians argues that the analysis and critique of biopower, as conventionally defined by Michel Foucault … Continue reading →

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