Author Archives: stuartelden

Originally posted on Geography Directions:
By Stuart Elden, University of Warwick and Monash University Military Presence in Maitama, Abuja (image credit: Stuart Elden) The Sunni Islamic group known as ‘Boko Haram’, active in the northeast of the country since at…

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Call for papers CRMEP 2015 Graduate Conference: Philosophy, Power, Potentialities Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London, Penrhyn Road campus, KT1 2EE Thursday 21st – Friday 22nd May 2015 Confirmed keynote speaker:…

Two articles from my ‘Wet Ontologies’ project, both co-authored with Kimberley Peters, are due for publication in the next month or two: ‘Wet Ontologies, Fluid Dynamics: Giving Depth to Volume through Oceanic Thinking’, which will be published in Environment and…

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
Given the level of interest in my previous post (over 2,400 views in the last 10 days), I thought I would provide an analysis of UCU’s counter-proposals on USS and of the ongoing…

Foucault Resources An alternative map of Africa – reimagining the continent without colonisation Call For Papers – ‘Thinking with Algorithms’, Durham, 26-27 Feb 2015 Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth’ lecture at Nottingham Contemporary The Fabric of Space: Matthew … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
This looks like a really interesting new title from MIT Press from Matthew Gandy. From the publisher’s website: “Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of…

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
An intriguing map of Africa, imaging how it might have looked had it not been colonised. This might be a good spur to class discussion, though one thing that should immediately be noted is that…