Author Archives: stuartelden

Scotland’s Maritime Boundaries? – the cover of the Land Reform Review report

Posted on May 23, 2014 by stuartelden

  There is a interesting image on the front cover of the newly released report of The Land Reform Review Group – The Land of Scotland and the Common Good. The report is a 263 page document, but the image is striking for … Continue reading →

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Gastón Gordillo, The Politics of Ruins – interview with Léopold Lambert of The Funambulist

Posted on May 23, 2014 by stuartelden

A recording of a fascinating discussion between Léopold Lambert and Gastón Gordillo, “The Politics of Ruins: What’s Hidden Under Rubble” at The Archipelago – the podcast platform of The Funambulist. Here’s Léopold’s description of the discussion: In early May, Gastón Gordillo received me at … Continue reading →

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Barry Stocker on Foucault’s The Punitive Society VII 1 and 2

Posted on May 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Barry Stocker continues his reading of Foucault’s La société punitive, lecture seven, parts one and two.

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Bradley Garrett receives conditional discharge – ‘a qualified victory for academic freedom’

Posted on May 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Bradley Garrett, whose work I’ve praised on this site before, was yesterday given a ‘conditional discharge’ in relation to charges of ‘conspiring to commit criminal damage’. I exchanged some emails with Brad yesterday so knew about it, but there were … Continue reading →

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Sensing War: war, violence, militarism, bodies, sensation – 12-13 June 2014, London

Posted on May 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Sensing War: war, violence, militarism, bodies, sensation International Interdisciplinary Conference. 12 – 13th June 2014. London, UK War is a crucible of sensory experience and its lived affects radically transform ways of being in the world.  It is prosecuted, lived and reproduced through a … Continue reading →

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An interview with Elizabeth Grosz “Ontogenesis and the Ethics of Becoming” by Kathryn Yusoff

Posted on May 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Kathryn Yusoff interviews Elizabeth Grosz on the Society and Space open site.

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Peter Sloterdijk’s Globes: Spheres II forthcoming in October 2014

Posted on May 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
 Peter Sloterdijk’s Globes – Spheres II: Macrospherology listed on Amazon. It’s not on the Semiotext(e) page yet, but is on the MIT Press page (they distribute the books). It will be published in October 2014, and comes…

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Herbert Marcuse, Collected Papers – sixth and final volume published

Posted on May 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Earlier this year, the sixth and final volume of Herbert Marcuse’s Collected Papers was published. The series was begun back in 1998, and they were edited by Douglas Kellner, joined by Clayton Pierce for the final two volumes. They are expensive – … Continue reading →

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The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent

Posted on May 22, 2014 by stuartelden

The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent – edited by Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira and published by University of Minnesota Press. From the front lines of the war on academic freedom, linking the policing of knowledge to the relationship … Continue reading →

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This Land is Your Land: Remaking Property After Neoliberalism – videos of a 2014 conference

Posted on May 22, 2014 by stuartelden

“This Land is Your Land: Remaking Property After Neoliberalism” – videos of a 2014 conference at Harvard, organised by the Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left. Other sessions here – via Mark Purcell at Path to the Possible.

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