Author Archives: stuartelden

# PALESTINE /// The Right to the Ruin: Civilizational Absence in the Post-Nakba Landscapes

Posted on May 21, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Funambulist:
What is wrong with these pictures? Start maybe by looking at them all. The landscapes that they show are beautiful and seem to be almost untouched by humans. The problem is that they are taken…

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The Funambulist Pamphlets

Posted on May 21, 2013 by stuartelden

One of my favourite blogs, The Funambulist, teams up with one of the most interesting and challenging new publishing outlets, Punctum Books, to produce a series of little books on themes covered on the blog. The twelve first volumes are … Continue reading →

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Writing for readers

Posted on May 21, 2013 by stuartelden

Short comment piece in The Chronicle on writing, readers and changes to publishing. Thanks to Annick Wibben for the link.

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Jeanne Haffner, The View from Above

Posted on May 21, 2013 by stuartelden

Jeanne Haffner’s The View from Above: The Science of Social Space has recently been published by MIT Press. In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social space” (l’espace social)—the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked—emerged in a … Continue reading →

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Taking time to dwell with Iain Sinclair

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXM0S4n1Hw Iain Sinclair is a leading writer, filmmaker, poet and psychogeographer, renowned for his walks in the borderlands of cities, derelict sites and urban redevelopments. His solitary walks in Middlesbrough and Hartlepool were the focus of…

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Intervention symposium – ‘Explosive geographies’

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
On April 15, 2013, two bombs targeting the Boston Marathon exploded on Boylston St, killing three and initiating the United State’s most visible domestic security operation of the decade. Two days later, a fertilizer plant…

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Foucault for Architects

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Gordana Fontana-Giusti’s Foucault for Architects is now out (via Heterotopian Studies). From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and arts including architecture and its critical discourse. The implications for architecture … Continue reading →

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Podcast: Ian Hacking ‘Making up Autism’

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Centre for Medical Humanities Blog:
A podcast of Professor Ian Hacking’s ‘Making Up Autism’ – Inaugural C. L. Oakley Lecture in Medicine and the Arts, University of Leeds, 13 May 2013 – is now available here.

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Landscape’s Geopolitics reviewed by John Agnew

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Agnew on Mangani at the Society and Space open site.

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Postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Copenhagen

Posted on May 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Ben Rosamond – br@ifs.ku.dk: Three postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Copenhagen ‘EuroChallenge’ Interdisciplinary Research Programme Department of Political Science, Facuty of Law, Faculty of Humanities ‘EuroChallenge’ is a major new interdisciplinary project, financed by the … Continue reading →

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