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Posted on November 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Yesterday, we had a meeting of Faculty Council for the Arts (I have to go as chair of our undergrad studies committee). This poor librarian starts us off with a 15-minute…

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Books received

Posted on November 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Chris Butler’s book on Lefebvre; Conley’s Spatial Ecologies; Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography (can’t quite believe I actually bought this); Campe’s The Game of Probability; first edition of Lindberg, The Beginning of Western Science (thanks Nick); a second-hand copy of … Continue reading →

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Romney’s Project for a New American Century

Posted on November 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Romney’s team prepared a website to launch if he’d won the election. I don’t blame him for being prepared, though rather embarassing that it leaked. Political Wire has some images. Interesting to see the idea of the ‘American century’ coming up … Continue reading →

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Mapping the US election

Posted on November 8, 2012 by stuartelden

In my opening lecture in the level 2 module Political Geography, I regularly use US presidential election maps. I generally start with 2000, 2004, and 2008 and talk about the swing states and geographical areas that seem clearly demarcated. But then … Continue reading →

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GURU ‘Justice and the City’ conference

Posted on November 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Newcastle University, 15-16 November, “Justice and the City”. Speakers include Jean Hillier, Patsy Healey, Stephen Graham, Don Mitchell and Matthew Gandy. Full details here.

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Posted on November 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Good piece on Nate Silver’s methods. And a great line about ‘the audacity of competence’.

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Posted on November 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko on forthcoming Agamben translations.

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Shakespearean Territories – Durham, Oxford, York

Posted on November 7, 2012 by stuartelden

I’m giving various talks on my Shakespearean Territories project over the next few months. In November, I’ll be speaking in my own department at a workshop on Politicised Literary Geographies, and then to the 1887 Society at Mansfield College, University … Continue reading →

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Gaston Gordillo – The Destruction of Space

Posted on November 7, 2012 by stuartelden

At Space and Politics, Gaston Gordillo has posted a fascinating excerpt from his forthcoming book The Afterlife of Places: Ruins and the Destruction of Space. Here’s the opening paragraph: The violent destruction of the void of the Gran Chaco by the state … Continue reading →

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Obama, Drones, and FiveThirtyEight

Posted on November 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Despite the disappointments of his first term, and the drones, I was still pleased to see Obama’s reelection. Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight was indeed very accurate.

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