Author Archives: stuartelden

Two useful pieces on writing dissertations and publishing books

Posted on March 9, 2014 by stuartelden

In The Chronicle on writing a dissertation/thesis. In The Times Higher on publishing a book.

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Rethinking Marxism – Keywords articles open access

Posted on March 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Routledge is pleased to offer free access to all Keywords articles from Rethinking Marxism. The Keywords articles highlight theories related to the rich history of Marxism through the subject-led vocabularly. “One of the goals of Rethinking Marxism from the very beginning has been … Continue reading →

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Bruno Latour, On some of the affects of capitalism – text available online

Posted on March 8, 2014 by stuartelden

The text of Latour’s lecture given at the Royal Academy, Copenhagen, 26th of February, 2014 is available to read online. This and many more texts are also available on his website.

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Marc Weller on the legal questions around Crimea

Posted on March 8, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve been trying to keep up with the news reports on the situation in Crimea, and haven’t felt a need to link to many of these. But this discussion at the BBC website of the legal issues by Marc Weller, Professor … Continue reading →

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Beyond Leiter Reports – different sources for philosophy news

Posted on March 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Brian Leiter has long run a widely read blog that provides a lot of news information on the discipline of Philosophy. In that it is very useful. But he also uses it as a forum for his own views which … Continue reading →

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The first volume of Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ reviewed in German

Posted on March 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Markus Gabriel discusses the first volume of Heidegger’s controversial ‘Black Notebooks’ – Überlegungen II-VI (Schwarze Hefte 1931-1938) – in Die Welt. Thanks to Marijn for the alert in comments to an earlier post.

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David Harvey, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

Posted on March 8, 2014 by stuartelden

David Harvey’s latest book, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, will be published in early April. Following on from The Enigma of Capital, the world’s leading Marxist thinker explores the hidden workings of capital and reveals the forces that will … Continue reading →

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URBAN QUESTIONS: Personal and Political Interrogations

Posted on March 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield discusses Castells’s The Urban Question and his own new book, The New Urban Question.

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Speaking styles and speaking spaces

Posted on March 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Having given four talks over the past two weeks – two on The Birth of Territory and two on the Foucault’s Last Decade project – I thought I’d write a little about the different spaces I spoke in, and how these change … Continue reading →

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Mental health issues in academia – a challenging piece in The Guardian

Posted on March 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
There is a challenging piece in The Guardian about the culture of acceptance around mental health issues in academia, especially around the expectations of PhD students. Important and worth reading and discussing. For once –…

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