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Editors vs Publishers – The Times Higher story on Prometheus and Taylor & Francis

Posted on June 7, 2014 by stuartelden

The Times Higher has an interesting and worrying piece about the clash between the editors of a journal and their publisher Taylor & Francis. Here’s the opening few lines: A journal’s editorial board has been left on the brink of resignation after … Continue reading →

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Steve Mentz on Kenneth Branagh’s Macbeth

Posted on June 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Steve Mentz has a good piece about Kenneth Branagh’s Macbeth at his blog. You can read my take here.

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Georg Lukács questions – did Existentialismus oder Marxismus? or ‘Heidegger Redivivus’ ever get translated into English?

Posted on June 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Did Georg Lukács’s 1954 book Existentialismus oder Marxismus? ever get translated into English? And did his ‘Heidegger Redivivus’ ever get translated? My searching has turned up nothing so I am assuming not. I know both are available in French and German.

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Interview about the ‘Governing Academic Life’ conference

Posted on June 6, 2014 by stuartelden

In advance of the ‘Governing Academic Life’ conference later this month, to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Foucault’s death, an interview with the organisers.

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Bradley Garrett in The Times Higher on protection for researchers

Posted on June 6, 2014 by stuartelden

“Place-hacker Bradley Garrett: research at the edge of the law” in The Times Higher. It’s good to see some people like Danny Dorling publicly supporting him, especially given the weak statement from Royal Holloway, University of London, where he did … Continue reading →

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Cryptologic geographies

Posted on June 6, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
In 2011, a 29-year-old grad student at the University of Münster in Germany made some coding alterations to OpenSSL, the secure sockets layer used on half a million websites around the world, including banks, financial institutions and…

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The work of editing – adding references to translations

Posted on June 6, 2014 by stuartelden

Over the past few weeks, around other things, I’ve been editing a translation of a book for a new press. I’ll post details of the book when the website is available. A lot of the work has been checking the … Continue reading →

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Volume 32, Issue 3 now out

Posted on June 6, 2014 by stuartelden

New issue of Society and Space out.

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Foucault’s Lectures on the Punitive Society XIII (concluding here)

Posted on June 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of March 28th, 1973 The last lecture. Coming soon, summaries of the lectures in Subjectivité et Vérité: Cours au Collège de France. 1980-1981, published a few weeks ago. Foucault refers to the role of the prison,…

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Foucault’s Lectures on the Punitive Society XII (should be XI)

Posted on June 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of March 14th 1973 In my last post on Foucault I referred to my mistake in dates and orders of the lectures I am summarising. I have had to correct my own correction and have…

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