Author Archives: stuartelden

Security Dispositifs

Posted on April 27, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting conference in Freiburg in a couple of weeks – For about a decade, issues of security have been high on the agenda of societal debate. The social sciences and the humanities have been quick to analyze the impacts of … Continue reading →

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Send to Kindle

Posted on April 27, 2012 by stuartelden

This is a helpful guide of how to send documents to your Kindle or Kindle app on phones, iPads, etc. Basically there is an email address unique to your Kindle account, and you can mail things to it, or you … Continue reading →

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The Winter’s Tale and Henry V

Posted on April 26, 2012 by stuartelden

I spent the last two evenings at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, seeing the Propeller company do The Winter’s Tale and Henry V. They are an all-male company, which leads to some interesting scenes, though I thought it worked better for … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
From John Steinbeck’s 1969 “interview” in The Paris Review (the piece reads more like a series of short writings than a conventional interview): ON GETTING STARTED It is usual that the moment you write for publication—I mean one of…

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Is ‘podcasting’ lectures a good idea?

Posted on April 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Renowned classicist Mary Beard asks this question on her TLS blog. She is responding to the frequent request that a lecture/seminar is recorded. I don’t especially like the term ‘podcasting’ – basically it means audio or video files being made … Continue reading →

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French Theory today

Posted on April 25, 2012 by stuartelden

I linked to the audio of these some time back, but Alexander Galloway’s lectures on French Theory today are now available as pdf pamphlets, with commentaries. The lectures cover Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Quentin Meillassoux, and François … Continue reading →

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Between Deleuze and Foucault

Posted on April 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Website for a reallly interesting project – Between Deleuze and Foucault. Links to details of a conference, forthcoming book, forthcoming special issue of Foucault Studies, and the transcripts and audio of Deleuze’s 1985-1986 course on Foucault.

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Contemporary Political Theory review of Terror and Territory

Posted on April 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Terror and territory: The spatial extent of sovereignty is reviewed by Jonathan Havercroft here. (It appears to require a subscription; though the journal has announced book reviews are now open access.) It is an overall positive review, though it is critical of … Continue reading →

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CFP – Media & The Production of Urban Space

Posted on April 24, 2012 by stuartelden

CALL FOR PAPERS The ECREA Temporary Working Group “Media & The City”, the ARC Research Centre at the Catholic University of Milan and First Monday are happy to announce their collaboration for a special issue of First Monday titled WAVES, … Continue reading →

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One World, Bordered Planet

Posted on April 24, 2012 by stuartelden

BBC podcast – with my colleague Martin Pratt.

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