Author Archives: stuartelden

London skyline

Posted on December 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Good piece on the changes to London’s skyline, and the complexities of politics, capital and planning regulations. Clever illustration too.

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Posted on December 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Edward Soja, Andy Merrifield and Maria Kaika on the future of urban studies (via Urban Cultural Studies).

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Chris Philo – ‘A great space of murmurings’

Posted on December 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Chris Philo, “‘A great space of murmurings’: Madness, romance and geography”, Progress in Human Geography, online early (requires subscription). Prompted by the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Foucault’s famous book commonly known in English as Madness and Civilization, … Continue reading →

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Becker on Ewald on Foucault on Becker

Posted on December 1, 2012 by stuartelden

This is a really interesting idea – working paper and video (via Foucault News). In a series of lectures delivered in 1979 at the Collège de France under the title The Birth of Biopolitics, Michel Foucault conducted a close reading … Continue reading →

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Territory and Risk

Posted on November 30, 2012 by stuartelden

Two interesting looking collections, edited by Valérie November. More details here, and in the video she talks about the work. A paper on this topic in Society and Space, co-authored with Eduardo Camacho-Hübner and Bruno Latour, entitled “Entering a Risky … Continue reading →

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Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets melting

Posted on November 30, 2012 by stuartelden

The Guardian has a gallery of striking images of Greenland and Antarctica ice sheet melt.

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All over the world

Posted on November 29, 2012 by stuartelden

ClustrMaps, which this blog uses to track where visitors are from, cleared my two-year old map and started a new one a month ago. In that month there were just over 10,000 discrete visits – only counting people who visited … Continue reading →

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Interview with Erik Swyngedouw

Posted on November 29, 2012 by stuartelden

Clip from a longer interview with Erik Swyngedouw – thanks to Kenton Card for the link.  

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Interview with Jodi Dean

Posted on November 29, 2012 by stuartelden

Jodi Dean’s The Communist Horizonis getting quite a lot of attention. Figure/Ground Communication has an interview with her here.

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Rhythm of Capital – Reading Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis

Posted on November 29, 2012 by stuartelden

A blog entitled Rhythm of Capital – Reading Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis provides lots of videos of rhythms to exemplify some of Lefebvre’s themes. It’s run by students of New Media at University of Amsterdam. I was pointed to this site by … Continue reading →

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