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Posted on November 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Featherstone on McFarlane at the Society and Space open site.

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Council for the Defence of British Universities

Posted on November 15, 2012 by stuartelden

The Council for the Defence of British Universities has recently been launched. Their message is that British universities occupy a high place in the world, and need to be defended against changes and especially marketisation. Britain’s universities are amongst the world’s … Continue reading →

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Agamben – The Highest Poverty

Posted on November 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Stanford University Press have a page up for Agamben’s The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life. You can read a draft of the preface here. The Highest Poverty is IV, 1 in the Homo Sacer series. Nicholas Dahmann made a … Continue reading →

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Bradley Garrett new website

Posted on November 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Urban geographer and explorer Brad Garrett has a new website. Some stunning photography there.

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Bill Martin scholar session audio

Posted on November 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Bill Martin was the focus of a scholar session at the recent SPEP conference. Peter Gratton spoke at this and recorded it and has posted the audio here.

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Richard Sennett – 2012 Paul Hirst memorial lecture

Posted on November 14, 2012 by stuartelden

The audio of Richard Sennett’s 2012 Paul Hirst memorial lecture is available here.

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Slavoj Žižek on Obama’s re-election

Posted on November 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Short piece in The Guardian. Preposterous and thoughtful all at the same time. Here’s one typical paragraph: In Europe, the ground floor of a building is counted as zero, so the floor above it is the first floor, while in the … Continue reading →

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Big books received

Posted on November 13, 2012 by stuartelden

The Thrift and Glennie book is 470 pages; Sloterdijk’s is 500; Parfit’s is a staggering 1,400 pages across the two volumes. All received in recompense for review work – I reviewed part of a reference work for OUP and the manuscript of the … Continue reading →

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