Author Archives: stuartelden

Volume, Depth, and the (In)visibilities of Water

Posted on October 19, 2014 by stuartelden

Thanks to a retweet from Klaus Dodds, I recently read this blogpost by marine ecologist Jon Copley on seabed mapping. Copley’s central message is that the statistics that we continually see reproduced in the media about 95% of the seabed…

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Graham and McFarlane (eds.) Infrastructural Lives: Urban Infrastructure in Context

Posted on October 18, 2014 by stuartelden

A new collection edited by two former colleagues – Stephen Graham and Colin McFarlane. Infrastructural Lives is the first book to describe the everyday experience and politics of urban infrastructures. It focuses on a range of infrastructures in both the … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 18 now published – includes two translations of Foucault, all open access

Posted on October 17, 2014 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 18 is now published. A wide range of contents including a theme section on ‘Ethnographies of Neoliberal Governmentalities’; translations of Foucault’s 1979 version of ‘Politics of Health in the Eighteenth Century‘ and his review of Jacques Ruffié, De la … Continue reading →

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Symposium on Mark Neocleous, War Power, Police Power – LSE, 20 November 2014

Posted on October 17, 2014 by stuartelden

Details of a book symposium on Mark Neocleous’s latest – War Power, Police Power.

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Henri Lefebvre, Vers une architecture de la jouissance

Posted on October 17, 2014 by stuartelden

While there is a published translation into English, Henri Lefebvre’s 1973 manuscript Vers une architecture de la jouissance has, until now, not been available in French. Now an excerpt has been published in Criticat, and a full edition may be forthcoming. This issue of … Continue reading →

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David Campbell, Politics without Principle – free 1993 book online

Posted on October 16, 2014 by stuartelden

David Campbell has made his 1993 book Politics without Principle: Sovereignty, Ethics and the Narratives of the Gulf War available online as a pdf. He says something about the book here.

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More additions to the Ebola reading list

Posted on October 16, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve made some more additions to the Ebola reading list. A really useful resource is Ebola Deeply, which is an aggregating news source (see discussion of project here; and also @Eboladeeply). Thanks to David Campbell for this link.  

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Grégoire Chamayou, ‘What is Necroethics?’, King’s College London, 29 October 2014

Posted on October 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Paul Gilroy: Hosted by the Capture Seminar, Grégoire Chamayou – author of Manhunts: A Philosophical History [Princeton, 2012] and Théorie du drone [La Fabrique, 2013] – will be joining us at King’s to give a presentation  “What … Continue reading →

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Ethnofiction: Augé’s No Fixed Abode reviewed

Posted on October 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Marc Augé’s No Fixed Abode reviewed at the Society and Space open site.

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Books received – Bartleson, Charnes, Debrix & Barder, Peoples & Vaughan Williams, Whitehead, Foucault et. al, and journals

Posted on October 15, 2014 by stuartelden

A few books from Routledge in recompense for review work, new issues of Transactions, Review of International Studies and Theory, Culture and Society, and a first edition (1976) of the Foucault-led Les machines á guerir. As I discuss in the page on Foucault’s collaborative projects, this … Continue reading →

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