Author Archives: stuartelden

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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Foucault and the History of Our Present (2015)

Posted on March 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault and the History of Our Present, edited by Sophie Fuggle, Yari Lanci, and Martina Tazzioli ISBN 9781137385918 Publication Date February 2015 Formats Hardcover Ebook (EPUB) Ebook (PDF) Publisher Palgrave Macmillan PDF of flyer PDF…

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Freiburg will not replace Günter Figal in the ‘Heidegger’ Chair

Posted on March 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Story from the Daily Nous – ‘Heidegger’ chair not to be filled when Figal retires, but another analytic post, at a lower level, instead. Three updates at Daily Nous with more information. The University of Freiburg, the academic home of Günter Figal—who recently stepped … Continue reading →

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