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Phil Steinberg interview at Exploring Geopolitics

Posted on August 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Political Geographer Phil Steinberg is interviewed at Exploring Geopolitics. It’s part of that site’s ‘Geopolitical Passport’ series – lots of other interesting interviews there.

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Posted on August 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Work (for free) with Figure/Ground.

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Difficult Books

Posted on August 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Publishers Weekly has a list of ten of the most difficult books to read. Heidegger and Hegel make the list, but it is dominated by fiction. Worth it, for me at least, because it links to the original list and discussion … Continue reading →

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Verso’s Olympic reading list

Posted on August 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Some of these are a bit of a stretch, but many good books here. Marc Perelman’s recent Barbaric Sport: A Global Plague looks intriguingly polemical.

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Slavoj Žižek – Signs from the Future

Posted on August 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Žižek has another new book coming out this autumn. There is an excerpt available here. Compared to Less than Nothing it’s a mere pamphlet at 128 pages. Entitled The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, it’s published by Verso.

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Owen Hatherley on The Olympian Landscape

Posted on August 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Owen Hatherley is author of the very good A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain. Verso have an excerpt from his forthcoming book,  A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain, here. A small taste: What of … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Review of Pierre Macherey, Hegel or Spinoza at NDPR – plus links to online material in Society and Space.

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Posted on August 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Political Geography forum on open-access publishing.

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Simon Critchley interview

Posted on August 1, 2012 by stuartelden

At Figure/Ground (via Graham Harman). Some interesting discussion of universities, teaching, research, assessment as well as politics and his own writing.

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Leaky Geopolitics: The Ruptures and Transgressions of WikiLeaks

Posted on July 31, 2012 by stuartelden

A series of reflections in Geopolitics – Simon Springer, Heather Chi, Jeremy Crampton, Fiona McConnell, Julie Cupples, Kevin Glynn, Barney Warf & Wes Attewell. Find it here (requires subscription).  The unfurling of violent rhetoric and the show of force that … Continue reading →

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