Author Archives: stuartelden

Antipode volume 47, issue 2 – out now

Posted on February 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
It’s the first week of February and we’ve just published our March issue (!?)-Antipode 47:2. As you’ll see, there are some superb essays in this issue, and we’d like to take this opportunity to make…

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GCAS Interviews Prof. Michael O’Rourke

Posted on February 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on GCAS–The BLOG:
The Global Center for Advanced Studies is honored to interview Professor Michael O’Rourke. Q: How would you describe your research interests? Michael O’Rourke [M O’R]: I would describe my research interests as extremely promiscuous, a kind…

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Urbanism and Dictatorship. A European Perspective — New book out!

Posted on February 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on multipliciudades:
Urbanism and Dictatorship. A European Perspective, the new book of the renowned Bauwelt Fundamente series, is out. The volume has been edited by Max Welch Guerra, Harald Bodenschatz and Piero Sassi, and includes theoretical essays and…

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Foucault’s Les mots et les choses at 50 – conference at Harvard

Posted on February 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Les mots et les choses at Year 50: An International Conference – Friday, April 17, 2015, 12:00pm to Saturday, April 18, 2015, 6:30pm, The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, sponsored by History and Theory. Vincent Descombes is the keynote speaker. This … Continue reading →

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Volume 33, Issue 1 now out

Posted on February 5, 2015 by stuartelden

New issue of Society and Space out – including a review essay by me on recent work on territory.

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes – ‘Reliable referees: a rare commodity’ at New APPS

Posted on February 5, 2015 by stuartelden

At New APPS Catarina Dutilh Novaes reflects on a problem – ‘Reliable referees: a rare commodity‘. With this post, I want to bring up for discussion what I think is one of the main issues with the peer-reviewing system… namely the … Continue reading →

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Louis Althusser et nous – Le magazine littéraire interviews with Balibar, Rancière et. al.

Posted on February 5, 2015 by stuartelden

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Lire Capital and Pour Marx,  Le magazine littéraire interviews Balibar, Rancière, Lévy and Milner. It also announces two forthcoming volumes of previously-unpublished material.

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Counter-terrorism and security bill is a threat to freedom of speech at universities – letter in The Guardian

Posted on February 4, 2015 by stuartelden

“Counter-terrorism and security bill is a threat to freedom of speech at universities”, letter in The Guardian from UK academics, in opposition to government plans. I’m one of over five hundred signatories (full list here). More on this in The Guardian and The Independent. … Continue reading →

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Interview with Bruno Latour from Festival of Ideas in Valparaíso, Chile

Posted on February 3, 2015 by stuartelden

In November 2014, Bruno Latour was in Chile for a Festival of Ideas in Valparaíso and was interviewed by Patricia Junge, Colombina Schaeffer and Leonardo Valenzuela. The interview is available in Spanish and English – Issuu and PDF. Thanks to Colombina for … Continue reading →

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Back down to Earth: reassembling Latour’s Anthropocenic geopolitics

Posted on February 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Speaking of Latour, Philip Conway’s article ‘Back down to Earth: reassembling Latour’s Anthropocenic geopolitics’ is now available in Global Discourse (requires subscription, or ask the author). The principal intuition of this article is that Bruno Latour’s explicitly or implicitly ‘geopolitical’ … Continue reading →

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