Author Archives: stuartelden

Foucault and the Twin Towers

Posted on September 9, 2011 by stuartelden

Over at his Open Geography blog, Jeremy Crampton offers some thoughts on the cover of our Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography edited book. He also links to a very interesting New York Times photo gallery on the towers, … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Fossils and Leibniz

Posted on September 7, 2011 by stuartelden

Three good days in the British Library rare books room. First up was Daniel Defert, Philippe Artières, Laurent Quéro and Michelle Zancarini-Fournel, Le groupe d’information sur les prisons: Archives d’une lutte, 1970-1972, so that I can offer some thoughts on … Continue reading →

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‘I am an American’

Posted on September 6, 2011 by stuartelden

Cynthia (Cindy) Weber’s ‘I am an American’ project website is now launched, including the films. A book of the same title is also available. Here’s the publisher blurb: From Samuel Huntington’s highly controversial Who Are We? to the urgent appeal … Continue reading →

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Afghanistan and the War on Terror – Ten Years On

Posted on September 6, 2011 by stuartelden

Wednesday 5th October – public meeting Afghanistan and the War on Terror – Ten Years On 7pm, Herschel Building, Lecture Theatre 1 Newcastle University, UK SPEAKERS Lindsey German – National Convenor of Stop the War Coalition since 2001, co-author of … Continue reading →

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Policing the Crisis reissue

Posted on September 6, 2011 by stuartelden

Nina Power has the news that Stuart Hall et. al.’s classic Policing the Crisis is to be reissued with new material.

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War’s Affects: Mediating Conflict and Emotion, 1700-1900 Symposium

Posted on September 6, 2011 by stuartelden

Conference at the Australian National University – more details here.

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The last Heidegger lecture course

Posted on September 5, 2011 by stuartelden

Well, the last course to be published. Vol 32 of the Gesamtausgabe. Still seminars, unpublished writings and notebooks to come. The course is from summer 1932, so a politically charged moment, and is on Anaximander and Parmenides, titled ‘The Beginning of … Continue reading →

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Interviews with new Society and Space co-editors

Posted on September 5, 2011 by stuartelden

Interviews with the three new co-editors of Society and Space can be found over at the journal blog – Deborah Cowen interviews Jane M. Jacobs here; Natalie Oswin interviews Maia Green here; and I interview Peter Gratton here.

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Histories of Violence

Posted on September 2, 2011 by stuartelden

That Massumi lecture is part of a series, including pieces by Bauman and Chomsky, which is itself part of a wider project run by Brad Evans at University of Leeds on ‘Histories of Violence’. The project has a website here, though … Continue reading →

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Brian Massumi on anticipation and action in the Bush era

Posted on September 2, 2011 by stuartelden

Short video here.

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