Author Archives: stuartelden

Nine visual ‘attempts to explain the crazy complexity of the Middle East’

Posted on October 4, 2014 by stuartelden

The Washington Post has gathered together a number of visual attempts at understanding the current situation in the Middle East. Thanks to Helga Tawil Souri for the link.

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Republican Rep. Lamar Smith versus the National Science Foundation

Posted on October 3, 2014 by stuartelden

An important story about academic research and politics.

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Ruling Climate: The theory and practice of environmental governmentality 1500 – 1800 – cfp for workshop at Warwick

Posted on October 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Following from the Geographies of Man: Environmental Influence from Antiquity to the Enlightenment held on 16th May 2014, the call for papers for the next conference is now open: Ruling Climate: The theory and practice of environmental governmentality 1500 – 1800 – 16th … Continue reading →

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Mapping topologies: review of Shields’ Spatial Questions

Posted on October 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Rob Shields’ Spatial Questions reviewed at Society and Space.

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Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography – call for papers

Posted on October 3, 2014 by stuartelden

A reminder of this conference coming up at Warwick, with a call for papers. Please spread the word in your institutions to potentially interested participants.Please consider submitting a paper for the next Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography, held at the … Continue reading →

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Evans & Reid, Deleuze and Fascism – now in paperback

Posted on October 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Brad Evans and Julian Reid’s collection Deleuze and Fascism: Security, War, Aesthetics is now available in paperback. This edited volume deploys Deleuzian thinking to re-theorize fascism as a mutable problem in changing orders of power relations dependent on hitherto misunderstood social and … Continue reading →

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History of Philosophy chart

Posted on October 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Embedded from SuperScholar (via Daily Nous) Update: I shared this because I thought it was interesting, and to clarify I’m not responsible for its content. I’m well aware this is Western, partial, male, white, etc. ‘Contemporary Philosophy’, especially, could have … Continue reading →

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