Author Archives: stuartelden

Louise Amoore, The Politics of Possibility – preview available

Posted on November 4, 2013 by stuartelden

You can read the introduction to Louise Amoore’s The Politics of Possibility here. Duke’s own site says the book is in stock, though online book stores don’t seem to have it yet.

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Police Power, all the way to heaven – Mark Neocleous on No-Fly Zones

Posted on November 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Neocleous on police power and no-fly zones.

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If all the ice melted – the world’s coastlines

Posted on November 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Powerful images from National Geographic.

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JM Coetzee: Universities head for extinction

Posted on November 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Novelist and academic JM Coetzee’s foreword to University of Cape Town fellow Professor John Higgins’s new book. Thanks to dmfant for the link.

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The place of sovereignty: Mapping power with Agamben, Butler, and Foucault (2013)

Posted on November 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Verena Erlenbusch, The place of sovereignty: Mapping power with Agamben, Butler, and Foucault (2013) Critical Horizons, 14 (1), pp. 44-69. https://doi.org/10.1179/15685160X13A.0000000003 Abstract This article addresses the relationship between sovereignty, biopolitics and governmentality in the work…

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Shakespeare Aloud! – Macbeth in Stratford

Posted on November 3, 2013 by stuartelden

I went to an interesting version of Macbeth in Stratford last night, performed by the Shakespeare Aloud! group, with only six actors. It was heavily cut, with most of the more political discussion scenes missing, but it kept the core of … Continue reading →

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Neil Brenner video on Place, Capitalism and the Right to the City

Posted on November 1, 2013 by stuartelden

Impressive twenty minute presentation via @urbantheorylab

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China Miéville video on Marxism and Halloween

Posted on November 1, 2013 by stuartelden

via the Pluto Press blog.

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Coventry Telegraph story on the strike yesterday, and a few other thoughts

Posted on November 1, 2013 by stuartelden

The Coventry Telegraph has a story about the strike yesterday, with reports from University of Warwick. One thing that isn’t coming through clearly enough in the news reports – and with this as with much else I blame the UCU … Continue reading →

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Derek Sayer appeal against inclusion in the REF

Posted on November 1, 2013 by stuartelden

Derek Sayer, the Lancaster historian, has appealed against his inclusion in the British university research assessment (the REF). The Times Higher Education has a story here; and there is much more at Sayer’s own blog, including the most recent which … Continue reading →

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