Author Archives: stuartelden

Violence and Space – Call for Papers

Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Session at the Association of American Geographers conference in Los Angeles, 9-13 April 2013: This session will provide a forum to address the interrelated questions of violence and space. Papers will examine how geography mediates the meanings, constructions, effects, foundations, … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Three new Society and Space papers online – on the state; Nancy, Lefebvre and the global-urban, and children’s geographies and the uses of theory.

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Paulina Ochoa Espejo – The Time of Popular Sovereignty

Posted on August 27, 2012 by stuartelden

Paulina Ochoa Espejo, The Time of Popular Sovereignty (PSU Press, 2011) is an interesting and innovative study of the notion of the ‘people’, because it stresses how we need to think about this notion as developing and changing through time. She … Continue reading →

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LA review of books on Sloterdijk

Posted on August 27, 2012 by stuartelden

Review of Sloterdijk’s Bubbles: Spheres I here. Thanks to Sean Sturm and John Measor for the alert. If you’re looking for other things of Sloterdijk to read in English the bibliography Sean Sturm has compiled is invaluable.

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John Protevi on ‘How to begin reading Deleuze’

Posted on August 27, 2012 by stuartelden

John Protevi offers some good advice at New APPS. He starts with Deleuze’s book Spinoza: Practical Philosophy and then offers suggestions for primary and secondary literature.

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John Agnew and Martin Jones on Territory, Politics, Governance

Posted on August 26, 2012 by stuartelden

In a series of short videos, John Agnew and Martin Jones discuss the new journal Territory, Politics, Governance. The links to the interviews are here– the full interview isn’t currently working – or you can go right to the transcript.

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Bernard Harcourt – The Illusion of Free Markets

Posted on August 26, 2012 by stuartelden

I finally got round to reading Bernard Harcourt, The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order. I bought it after The Foucault Effect 1991-2011 conference last year when Bernard spoke. I don’t have much to say, … Continue reading →

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Haruki Murakami on writing and running

Posted on August 26, 2012 by stuartelden

Thanks to Oliver Belcher for the link – a piece about novelist Haruki Murakami’s views on writing and running. What does a novelist/writer need? For Murakami, it’s three things – talent, focus and endurance. Fortunately, these two disciplines—focus and endurance—are different … Continue reading →

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Thomas Meyer’s Beowulf

Posted on August 26, 2012 by stuartelden

The latest book from Punctum is Thomas Meyer’s translation of Beowulf. No ordinary translation – typographically and linguistically this is very different and this is a beautifully produced edition. It’s available free online or for a small price. You can … Continue reading →

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Peter Suber on Open Access Publishing

Posted on August 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Good discussion at Berfrois from Peter Suber of the Harvard Open Access Project.

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