Author Archives: stuartelden

La Volonté de savoir de Michel Foucault. Regards critiques 1976-1979

Posted on July 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
La Volonté de savoir de Michel Foucault. Regards critiques 1976-1979 Dossier coordonné par Jean-François Bert Textes choisis, présentés et traduits par Philippe Artières, Jean-François Bert, Philippe Chevallier, Frédéric Gros, Florian Nicodème, Luca Paltrinieri, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville,…

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A history of the secret

Posted on July 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
What is the secret, and what is its relation to privacy? Some musings, on reading Clare Birchall’s 2011 paper “Transparency Interrupted” in Theory, Culture & Society. Etymology: secret (n.)late 14c., from Latin secretus “set apart, withdrawn, hidden,”…

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Thinkers’ Corner – Jean Gottmann, The Significance of Territory in Geographica Helvetica

Posted on July 11, 2013 by stuartelden

The first 2013 issue of Geographica Helvetica included my assessment of Jean Gottmann’s The Significance of Territory, forty years since it was published. The piece is now available open access here.

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Advice for (post)graduate students

Posted on July 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Advice for (post)graduate students on advisors in the Times Higher Education. (A good counter-balance to previously linked advice.)

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Roberto Esposito, Living Thought reviewed at NDPR

Posted on July 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Roberto Esposito’s book Living Thought is reviewed at NDPR.

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In Search of UIQ – Guattari and science-fiction

Posted on July 11, 2013 by stuartelden

A documentary about Guattari’s unrealised science-fiction movie, In Search of UIQ, has recently been released. It is discussed here. Thanks to Slawek Krolak for the link.

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Sarah Schulman reviewed by Gerry Kearns

Posted on July 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Kearns reviews Schulman.

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Thinking Memory Through Space – conference in London

Posted on July 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Conference in July in London – full details here.

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Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography – Call for papers

Posted on July 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Call for Papers: Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography, 28-29 November 2013 Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS), University of Warwick Theme: ‘Politics, Spaces, Imaginations’ Keynote: Klaus Dodds (Geography, Royal Holloway) Globalised mobilities today remind us of the inextricable … Continue reading →

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“Maybe there’s something wrong with our notion of paradise” — Slavoj Žižek

Posted on July 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
In an essay published today at the LRB, Slavoj Žižek addresses the current, disparate waves of protest around the globe and explores the difference between a reformist and a revolutionary period: in a reformist period, global revolution remains a…

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