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Alberto Toscano – Fanaticism

Posted on July 4, 2010 by stuartelden

Just finished reading Alberto Toscano’s book Fanaticism. A very interesting book and a great project – a kind of genealogy or conceptual history of the uses and abuses of the term. Lots of interesting ideas and a lot to take … Continue reading →

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Blogging and Medieval Studies

Posted on July 4, 2010 by stuartelden

There is an interesting post here about blogging and Medieval Studies. I don’t think I’ve been doing this blog for long enough to be able to comment about whether this is true in general terms (I suspect some of the … Continue reading →

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Zizek, Derrida and other lecturers

Posted on July 4, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has a followup to my post on Zizek here. He draws an interesting comparison between Zizek and Derrida as speakers. I heard Derrida speak twice – once was a setpiece event in Oxford, which was called ‘A Short … Continue reading →

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Zizek on the radio

Posted on July 4, 2010 by stuartelden

The Verso blog has the information that you can hear Zizek on the radio here. It’s available until 7th July. Zizek is right at the beginning. He’s given a fairly tough time by the interviewer, and it’s quite serious – though … Continue reading →

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Tour de France

Posted on July 4, 2010 by stuartelden

The Tour de France began yesterday, with an individual time-trial. An 8.9 km course, that Fabian Cancellara won in a flat 10 minutes. That’s an average speed of 53.4 kmph. It was a shame that the weather and the staggered … Continue reading →

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CRMEP moves to Kingston

Posted on July 2, 2010 by stuartelden

So that’s the end for the CRMEP at Middlesex, and the beginning of its life at Kingston. I hope it works out, though obviously the situation at Middlesex was never resolved and there are a lot of undergraduates and two … Continue reading →

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Harman on translation

Posted on July 2, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has an interesting post on translation here. He suggests that English to French has increased the words used, and wonders if this is a standard thing. My sense is that it isn’t necessarily true – when translating Lefebvre … Continue reading →

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When is a state not a state?

Posted on July 2, 2010 by stuartelden

It may seem in bad taste to find something of academic interest in the sexual abuse cases concerning the Catholic church, but this piece in The Guardian raises some important political and geographical issues. These include the Pope’s temporal power … Continue reading →

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Zizek at the LSE

Posted on July 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Then for a bit of light relief I went to hear Zizek talk at the L.S.E. He really is a captivating speaker. It was about his new book Living in the End Times, but there were so many digressions and … Continue reading →

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Althusius, territory, and his sources

Posted on July 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Althusius refers to a few sources in his definition of the territory of the kingdom as the bounded place within which the law of the kingdom is exercised. I know that put like that alone it sounds pretty mundane: but … Continue reading →

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