Author Archives: stuartelden

Derek Gregory on ‘The Life of a Bullet’

Posted on August 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Also from Derek Gregory – some discussion of the arms trade, and lots of links, following from this powerful film clip.  

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Derek Gregory on Eyal Weizman’s Forensic Architecture Project

Posted on August 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Some discussion and lots of useful links here.

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Slavoj Žižek on ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

Posted on August 9, 2012 by stuartelden

At Boitempo (warning – contains spoilers). Thanks to David McInerney for the link.

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Verso on the Olympics

Posted on August 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Undeterred by the general enthusiasm for the Olympics – at least in the UK – Verso have posted the second part of their critical reading list. Again, some of these are a bit of a stretch, but some interesting reading … Continue reading →

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Fionnuala O’Neill reviews Ralph Fiennes’s Coriolanus

Posted on August 7, 2012 by stuartelden

In Shakespeare – requires subscription.

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London Mapping Seminar

Posted on August 7, 2012 by stuartelden
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Alex Jeffrey – The Improvised State

Posted on August 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Alex Jeffrey’s The Improvised State: Sovereignty, Performance and Agency in Dayton Bosnia will be available in print in October. You can read Chapter One here. The Improvised State provides a highly developed account of the nature and outcomes of Bosnian … Continue reading →

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Emilia Angelova reviews Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on August 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Emilia Angelova, “Kant’s Physical Geography“, Comparative and Continental Philosophy, Vol 4, No 1, 2012 (requires subscription) This review of an edited collection, Reading Kant’s Geography, discusses a series of critical essays on Kant’s physical geography, a topic to which he devoted … Continue reading →

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Mitchell Dean reviews Agamben, The Kingdom and the Glory

Posted on August 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Mitchell Dean, “Governmentality Meets Theology: ‘The King Reigns, but He Does Not Govern’”, Theory, Culture & Society, May 2012 vol. 29 no. 3 145-158 (requires subscription; via Foucault News). A detailed review with some close discussion of the relation of … Continue reading →

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Žižek on Melancholia

Posted on August 7, 2012 by stuartelden

via Thinking with Shakespeare

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