Author Archives: stuartelden

‘V for Visibility’ in Interstitial journal

Posted on March 29, 2013 by stuartelden

A little piece by me on the Guy Fawkes/V for Vendetta masks used in the Occupy protests has been published in the open access journal Interstitial. A shorter version first appeared on the Society and Space open site in November … Continue reading →

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Foucault books received

Posted on March 29, 2013 by stuartelden

Two new books – the Blackwell A Companion to Foucault, and the new collection La grande étrangère. I’ll be reviewing the Companion for Cultural Geographies. It looks really good including a translation of Daniel Defert’s ‘Chronology’ from Dits et écrits … Continue reading →

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Toys for the State of Exception

Posted on March 28, 2013 by stuartelden

Agamben Toys – Apposite Baubles for the State of Exception (via Derek Gregory, who acknowledges Alex Vasudevan). Derek’s post at Geographical Imaginations is worth a look for the more sinister side of all this – though comedy as opposition and critique shouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Understanding Society on Michael Mann on Power

Posted on March 28, 2013 by stuartelden

  Daniel Little on Michael Mann’s hugely ambitious four volume The Sources of Social Power. In 1986 Michael Mann began a strikingly ambitious project — to give a theoretical and historical account of the history of power in human history. … Continue reading →

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A Latin Empire versus German Hegemony? Agamben on contemporary Europe

Posted on March 27, 2013 by stuartelden

A provocative piece by Giorgio Agamben, drawing on a 1945 essay by Alexandre Kojève. Thanks to Elliott Jarbe and Sebastian Budgen for the link.

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Boko Haram – more references

Posted on March 27, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve updated my Annotated Bibliography to Boko Haram – and moved it to a page under the new Resources heading. I’ll add other things to that page in due course.

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Freedom and the Construction of Europe

Posted on March 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Two volume collection of essays, Freedom and the Construction of Europe , edited by Quentin Skinner and Martin van Gelderen. Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 26, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
Following up my post on the air campaigns waged by the United States and by Pakistan inside the Federally Administered Tribal Territories and the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), here are some screenshots from Chris…

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Foucault’s History of Sexuality – an updated table

Posted on March 26, 2013 by stuartelden

In 2005 I published a piece entitled ‘The Problem of Confession’, freely available here. which had a lot of discussion of Foucault’s different plans for his History of Sexuality and the issues that revolved around them. That piece had a … Continue reading →

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Foucault lecture at Memorial University Newfoundland – audio recording

Posted on March 26, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of the George Story Lecture in Humanities I gave at Memorial University of Newfoundland, entitled “Knowledge, Truth, Power: The Politics of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir”, is now available here. There is a gap in the recording about … Continue reading →

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