Author Archives: stuartelden

University of New South Wales – lecture and workshop this week

Posted on March 9, 2015 by stuartelden

10 March 2015, 4pm, “Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics”, Public Lecture, School of Humanities and Languages, John Goodsell 221/223, University of New South Wales –website; poster; abstract  In this talk I’ll be returning to the Shakespeare project for the first time in … Continue reading →

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Top posts this week on Progressive Geographies

Posted on March 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Judy! – the 1993 Judith Butler fanzine available online Foucault – uncollected notes, lectures and interviews Simeon Wade (ed.) Chez Foucault – the 1978 fanzine with a 1976 interview with Foucault Foucault and the History of Our Present (2015) Textures … Continue reading →

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Progressive Geographies – Frequently Asked Questions

Posted on March 8, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve added a page of Frequently Asked Questions to this site as a subpage to About.

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Umberto Eco – How to Write a Thesis (MIT Press)

Posted on March 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Umberto Eco’s 1977 book How to Write a Thesis now out in translation from MIT Press. By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy’s most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and … Continue reading →

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Steve Mentz, Shipwreck Modernity – forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press

Posted on March 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Steve Mentz’s Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization 1560-1719 is forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press. He’s posted the cover and table of contents at his blog – looking forward to this.

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Michael O’Rourke – The Nows and Thens of Queer Theory (videos)

Posted on March 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Michael O’Rourke – The Nows and Thens of Queer Theory – videos of six lectures here. An on-line and in residence seminar with Michael O’Rourke at UCD Humanities Institute, 9-13 February 2015. The seminar was organized by Global Centre for Advanced … Continue reading →

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Textures of the Anthropocene: New four-volume set from MIT Press

Posted on March 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
Details of a new set of works on the Anthropocene are here. This is a description from the MIT Press site: We have entered the Anthropocene era—a geological age of our own making, in…

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Gastón Gordillo – Terrain as Insurgent Weapon (abstract)

Posted on March 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Gastón Gordillo shares an update on his ongoing work on terrain, for a forthcoming conference at UBC. Very sorry to miss this one – I’ll still be in Melbourne, talking about a related topic. Gastón and I have organised two … Continue reading →

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Brad Evans reviews Michael Dillon’s Biopolitics of Security at Antipode

Posted on March 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Brad Evans reviews Michael Dillon’s Biopolitics of Security: A Political Analytic of Finitude at Antipode. I’m looking forward to seeing this book when back in the UK.

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iBorder, Borderscapes, Bordering: A Conversation – Chiara Brambilla and Holger Pötzsch

Posted on March 5, 2015 by stuartelden

A discussion extending the work of a recent article in Society and Space – open access for a month alongside this open site piece.

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