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Gaston Gordillo – The Terrain as Medium of Violence

Posted on August 30, 2012 by stuartelden

Also in the ‘Violence and Space’ AAG sessions, Gaston Gordillo on ‘The Terrain as Medium of Violence’. He’s posted the abstract here, and also talks about his intriguing sounding book The Afterlife of Places: Ruins and the Destruction of Space, … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 30, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Object-Oriented Philosophy:
The deal with PUF is now done, and it’s a big one: Garcia’s Forme et objet will appear in our Speculative Realism series at Edinburgh University Press. Mark Allan Ohm and Jon Cogburn are the…

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Quentin Meillassoux – ‘Iteration, Reiteration, Repetition’ text

Posted on August 29, 2012 by stuartelden

Meillassoux’s 20th April 2012 lecture in Berlin is now online. Not sure how authorised this is, but Peter Gratton and Graham Harman have both linked to it. Graham has some thoughts in response in his post.

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Urban Territory: Violent Political Technologies in London and Kano

Posted on August 29, 2012 by stuartelden

This is my abstract for the AAG meeting in Los Angeles next April. It will be part of the ‘Violence and Space’ sessions organised by Philippe le Billon and Simon Springer – call for papers here. I’ll also be part … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Review of John Urry’s Climate Change and Society on the Society and Space open site.

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Lefebvre on Hitler

Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

One of Lefebvre’s earliest books – very hard to find these days – was a short study of the first five years of Hitler’s dictatorship in Germany. Hitler au pouvoir, les enseignements de cinq années de fascisme en Allemagne, Paris: Bureau … Continue reading →

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Michael Watts – Silent Violence reissue forthcoming

Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Michael Watts’s classic Silent Violence: Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria is coming out in early 2013 with University of Georgia Press in their excellent Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation series. As well as some really good new … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler – Adorno prize

Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Judith Butler has been awarded the Adorno prize (press release in German here). Given the remit of the prize, and Butler’s reputation, this seems highly deserved. However there was a piece in The Jerusalem Post criticising the award because Butler … Continue reading →

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Reece Jones on Walls

Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

In the New York Times: Over the past decade, some of the world’s leading democracies built walls and fences on their borders. The United States, India and Israel — often respectively described as the world’s oldest democracy, the world’s largest … Continue reading →

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Some more free downloads

Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve been posting up old papers here for a while, but haven’t done any recently. Here are a few more: Elden, S. & Williams, A. The Territorial Integrity of Iraq, 2003-2007: Invocation, Violation, Viability. Geoforum. 2009;40:407-417. Elden, S. The War … Continue reading →

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