Author Archives: stuartelden

Tom Sparrow, Plastic Bodies – with preface by Catherine Malabou – in print or open access e-book

Posted on March 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Tom Sparrow’s Plastic Bodies: Rebuilding Sensation After Phenomenology, with a preface by Catherine Malabou, is available in print or as an open access e-book (via Object-Orientated Philosophy). Sensation is a concept with a conflicted philosophical history. It has found as many allies as … Continue reading →

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In the Meantime reviewed

Posted on March 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Sharma’s In the Meantime reviewed.

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Umberto Eco, How to Write a Thesis – reviewed in Times Higher Education

Posted on March 23, 2015 by stuartelden

As previously mentioned, Umberto Eco’s 1977 book How to Write a Thesis now out in translation from MIT Press – it is reviewed in The Times Higher Education by Robert Eaglestone – thanks to Dean Bond for the link. Here’s the concluding … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on March 22, 2015 by stuartelden

University of Surrey’s Politics department under threat Boğaziçi Chronicles, Interview with Michael Hardt: Empire, Sovereignty and New Struggles New Series at Edinburgh: New Perspectives in Ontology Beyond Discipline and Punish: Is it time for a new translation of Foucault’s Surveiller … Continue reading →

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Seven upgrade strategies for a problematic article or chapter

Posted on March 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Some interesting writing and publishing advice here. Here’s the heavily compressed version: Do one thing well. Flatten the structure. Say it once, say it right. Try paragraph re-planning. Make the motivation clearer. Strengthen the argument tokens. Improve the data and … Continue reading →

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Greece and Europe: A First Account of a Radical Government – recordings of Douzinas, Mason and Žižek

Posted on March 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Greece and Europe: A First Account of a Radical Government – recordings of Costas Douzinas, Paul Mason and Slavoj Žižek. Also includes a link to this short film:

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Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou

Posted on March 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou, edited by Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller. Catherine Malabou’s concept of plasticity has influenced and inspired scholars from across disciplines. The contributors to Plastic Materialities—whose fields include political philosophy, critical legal studies, social … Continue reading →

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Cycling in Melbourne – seven weeks and 1152 miles

Posted on March 21, 2015 by stuartelden

I left Melbourne on Monday. It was a terrific, productive, interesting and enjoyable eight weeks. I’ve said a little about talks before, mainly in Sydney, and I’ll provide links to a recording of one other talk soon. I’ll doubtless say more about the … Continue reading →

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Second review of the Global Discourse review symposium on The Birth of Territory

Posted on March 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Global Discourse are hosting a review symposium on The Birth of Territory, which was joint winner of their inaugural book award. The second review, by Jeppe Strandsbjerg, is available here; and the first review by Jordan Branch (previously posted) is here. Both require subscription, … Continue reading →

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Being Social: Ontology, Law, Politics – first book from Counterpress

Posted on March 20, 2015 by stuartelden

Being Social: Ontology, Law, Politics, edited by Dan Matthews and Tara Mulqueen. Being Social brings together leading and emerging scholars on the question of sociality in poststructuralist thought. The essays collected in this volume examine a sense of the social which resists … Continue reading →

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