Author Archives: stuartelden

Mapping Bob Dylan’s World

Posted on May 28, 2013 by stuartelden

A map of every street, town, and city Dylan has ever sung about.

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Warwick Graduate Conference in Security Studies

Posted on May 28, 2013 by stuartelden

Security and the Everyday 31 October – 1 November 2013 Keynote: Professor Jutta Weldes (University of Bristol); Professor François Debrix (Virginia Tech) More and more research in critical security studies pays attention to the realm of everyday experience, popular culture … Continue reading →

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New Materialism, Fragility, and Activism, William E.Connolly

Posted on May 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJa00_SiK6c Keynote talk by William E. Connolly at the 3rd Annual Radical Democracy Conference on March 16, 2013 at The New School in New York. Talk on “The New Materialism, Fragility, and Activism.” For more information…

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Plastic selves: two new Malabou reviews posted

Posted on May 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Two books by Catherine Malabou are reviewed on the Open Site.

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Boko Haram bibliography minor updates

Posted on May 25, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve added brief comments on four new pieces in the Boko Haram bibliography –  Adibe (2012); Agbiboa (2013); Idowu (2013); Mantzikos (2010).

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The Northern Nigerian State of Emergency

Posted on May 24, 2013 by stuartelden

My Boko Haram paper is lying dormant while I mark exams, and embark on the buying and selling of homes, and is in danger of being over-taken by events. I’ve been keeping up-to-date on the developments in the north-east of the … Continue reading →

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Planning for exclusion in Abuja

Posted on May 24, 2013 by stuartelden

At Open Democracy, an interesting piece on the Nigerian capital of Abuja. Nigeria, a nation deeply scarred by colonialism and years of civil war, took the decision in 1991 to build a new capital city at the country’s centre. In … Continue reading →

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Renditions rendered

Posted on May 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
Many readers will know of various attempts made, several years ago, to map the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme.  One of the most innovative was artist-geographer Trevor Paglen‘s Terminal Air project (and the idea of (de)basing…

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Peter Sloterdijk – Philosophical Temperaments

Posted on May 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk’s little book Philosophical Temperaments: From Plato to Foucault is now out in English translation with Columbia University Press. The chapter on Plato is available to read free online.

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Parrhesia issue 16 out

Posted on May 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Open access and available to download here. Includes essays by Graham Harman, Tristan Garcia, Quentin Meillassoux, Marie-Eve Morin on Jean-Luc Nancy, etc. (via Graham Harman’s blog)

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