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David Harvey: ‘The financial crisis is an urban crisis’

Posted on May 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Short video piece on The Guardian website.

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Designing Geopolitics conference

Posted on May 31, 2012 by stuartelden

In San Diego this weekend, but with live stream. D:GP is a think-tank focused on how planetary scale computation transforms political geography and models of sovereignty, as seen through the lens of speculative art and design. D:GP collaborates directly with … Continue reading →

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Étienne Balibar – Anti-Humanism, and the Question of Philosophical Anthropology

Posted on May 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Audio recording of a lecture with response and discussion, here. (Thanks to Sam Kinsley for the link) The controversy opposing “humanism” and “anti-humanism” was especially virulent in the 1960s and 70s in France, involving different tendencies of Phenomenology, Marxism, Structuralism … Continue reading →

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Anarchist Geographies – Antipode

Posted on May 29, 2012 by stuartelden

following my earlier post, Antipode has the news of a forthcoming theme issue on Anarchist Geographies.

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WordPress-Facebook link

Posted on May 28, 2012 by stuartelden

This used to work just fine. I posted on WordPress, and it was automated to post the message to the Facebook page for this blog, or the one for Society and Space.  But WordPress keeps resetting the connection, either asking … Continue reading →

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The University of Nottingham Centre for Critical Theory Annual Lecture

Posted on May 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Given by my friend and colleague Ben Anderson – live broadcast online for those who can’t get to Nottingham. The University of Nottingham Centre for Critical Theory Annual Lecture Ben Anderson: Atmospheres of Emergency 13 Jun 2012 7pm – 9pm. … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 28, 2012 by stuartelden
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New role at Durham

Posted on May 28, 2012 by stuartelden

From October 2012 I’ll be one of the directors of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Durham. There are four directors—one for each of the faculties and an Executive Director. My role is for the Faculty of Social Sciences and … Continue reading →

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The Anarchist Turn – Simon Critchley

Posted on May 27, 2012 by stuartelden

The Butler videos I linked to earlier are part of a wider conference. Below is Simon Critchley’s introduction, which around 4 minutes in raises the question of anarchist geographers/ies and calls for ‘new maps’.   More videos from this conference … Continue reading →

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Marking finished

Posted on May 27, 2012 by stuartelden

Finally finished marking. Over the past month or so it’s been a lot of essays; 10 dissertations on topics from Portuguese music to Terry Pratchett novels to the war on terror; and 180 exam papers. These have been interspersed with quite … Continue reading →

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