Author Archives: stuartelden

Lisa Jardine on books, internet and knowledge

Posted on January 8, 2012 by stuartelden

If you can get past the Harry Potter bit, this is actually an interesting discussion of modes of knowledge organisation and retrieval.

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Slavoj Žižek on Ralph Fiennes’s film of Coriolanus

Posted on January 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Slavoj Žižek discusses Ralph Fiennes’s film of Coriolanus in the New Statesman (thanks to Paul Harrison for the link). Rather too much about 300, but some interesting comments. I am not convinced that Coriolanus is better than Hamlet. T.S. Eliot (who actually … Continue reading →

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2011 in review

Posted on January 8, 2012 by stuartelden

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 110,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at … Continue reading →

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Novels read in 2011 part 2

Posted on January 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Given the number of these that are not really novels, this list should probably be retitled ‘books I read that are not for work reasons…’ Not as many as the first half of the year, but that’s probably a product … Continue reading →

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End of 2011, and a look to 2012

Posted on January 7, 2012 by stuartelden

I meant to post this before I went offline for a couple of weeks for Christmas and a holiday in the Gambia, but didn’t do so. Anyway, it is a brief review of my 2011 and a look to 2012… … Continue reading →

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Being Interdisciplinary

Posted on December 22, 2011 by stuartelden

Adrian Ivakhiv has some thoughts on “The joy (& loneliness) of being interdisciplinarian“. I am someone who did a first degree in Politics and Modern history – though taught from a single department of Government – with a PhD from that … Continue reading →

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‘Teritorij bez granica’ – ‘Territory without Borders’ in Croatian

Posted on December 22, 2011 by stuartelden

One of the speaking invitations I unfortunately had to turn down this year was to speak in Zagreb at the Human Rights film festival.  (You know you are busy when you have to turn down expenses-paid trips to interesting places you’ve … Continue reading →

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More on Occupy

Posted on December 21, 2011 by stuartelden

this is also a useful collection of links and images

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On the Occupy movement

Posted on December 19, 2011 by stuartelden

The Berkeley Journal of Sociology has a whole host of links on the Occupy movement.

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Durham Doctoral Studentships

Posted on December 19, 2011 by stuartelden

I mentioned some funding opportunities recently; the Durham Doctoral Studentships – especially useful for those ineligible for the other schemes are now advertised here.

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