Author Archives: stuartelden

Coriolanus – Ralph Fiennes and the text

Posted on February 5, 2012 by stuartelden

I saw the Ralph Fiennes film version of Coriolanus while down in London this week. It’s good and worth seeing, though it has some problems, and does quite a lot of violence to the text (though not the plot) in the … Continue reading →

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More doubts about the Jeremy Bamber conviction

Posted on February 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Ballistics experts raise doubts as to whether the much-disputed silencer was ever used – report in The Guardian, and a video reviewing the case a year ago. I said something about this case in my piece on the Troy Davis execution … Continue reading →

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‘How to get a fellowship’

Posted on February 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Some good advice here.

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Rancière, Macherey, Balibar in review

Posted on February 3, 2012 by stuartelden

The Notes Taken rounds up three reviews.

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Macherey on philosophy and literature

Posted on February 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Some nice quotes from Pierre Macherey’s The Object of Literature “literature and philosophy are inextricable entwined. Or at least they were until history established a sort of official division between the two” (p. 3). “let us listen, then, to literature … Continue reading →

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KCL talk, Boris and a mechanical elephant

Posted on February 1, 2012 by stuartelden

The talk at King’s College London seemed to go down quite well. Lunchtime talks can be a bit rushed but there was a really good turnout and some good questions. Nice lunch with some very good MA students afterwards. Thanks … Continue reading →

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Agamben – Homo Sacer structure

Posted on January 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Update: a new graphic of the structure is available here. Thanks to Nicholas Dahmann for this – the structure of Agamben’s Homo Sacer in graphic form… jpg and pdf.

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Analysing Discourse conference in Stockholm

Posted on January 31, 2012 by stuartelden

14-15 June 2012. Details here and here.

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Map fight

Posted on January 31, 2012 by stuartelden

This is handy comparison tool for sizes of different countries. I was looking for a rough indicator for the size of Somalia for a lecture, and it’s almost exactly the same size as France.

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Thrift on refereeing in crisis

Posted on January 31, 2012 by stuartelden

In the Chronicle of Higher Education. Thanks to Sam Kinsey for posting this in comments – I’ve reposted so it is more widely seen.

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