Author Archives: stuartelden

London Underground live

A neat bit of cartography – taking a data feed from Transport from London and turning it into a live map. The Skyfall version is also very cool and there are others for mainline trains, etc. Thanks to Nistasha Kaul … Continue reading →

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The Pay Strike And Its Discontents

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
The ballots are out, the wheels are in motion. Union members have until Thursday 10 October to vote on strike action over the latest derisory pay offer of 1% (if you haven’t received…

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Jeppe Strandsbjerg on Cartography and Territory in International Relations

At the e-International Relations website.

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cfp: AAG Tampa 2014: “What Space for the Post-Security State?”

Originally posted on Open Geography:
AAG 2014 CFP  “What Space for the Post-Security State?”  Tampa, Florida, 8-12 April 2014  Session organizers: Jeremy Crampton, University of Kentucky, Klaus Dodds, Peter Adey (Royal Holloway University of London)  Session sponsored by the Political…

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Nigel Thrift on the spaces of academic offices and studies

In the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Burning Issues: Geopolitics Today – webpage for Warwick class

My MA lecture class at Warwick, Burning Issues: Geopolitics Today now has a webpage.

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Speaking about Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon

I’ll be briefly talking about the Shakespearean territories project at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon on 11 October. Coals to Newcastle…

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Books received

Timothy Mitchell’s Carbon Democracy (this keeps coming up in conversations and papers); a fascinating-looking new book on The Concept of World from Kant to Derrida; William Connolly’s new The Fragility of Things; a biography of Hegel; and the two volumes … Continue reading →

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Weapon of the Strong – Special Extract | Judith Butler

An interview with Judith Butler, extracted from a forthcoming book.

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We are now at figureground.org

Figureground moves home, and interviews Latour.

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