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Books received – Wilson, Beer, Park and Kaplan, Sullivan, Roudinesco, Mattern

Posted on November 28, 2017 by stuartelden

A pile of recent books – Matthew Wilson, New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map; David Beer, Metric Power; Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan (eds.), Life in the Age of Drone Warfare; Rob Sullivan, The Geography of … Continue reading →

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Trevor Paglen: art in the age of mass surveillance

Posted on November 27, 2017 by stuartelden

Trevor Paglen: art in the age of mass surveillance in The Guardian. Trevor Paglen describes himself as a landscape artist, but he is no John Constable. The landscapes Paglen frames extend to the bottom of the ocean and beyond the … Continue reading →

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Navigating Marx in the Age of Trump: An Interview With David Harvey

Posted on November 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Navigating Marx in the Age of Trump: An Interview With David Harvey in The Observer This fall marks the 150th anniversary since the publication of Karl Marx’s Capital. In his groundbreaking series, Marx famously defined capital as value in motion, architecting an … Continue reading →

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Book censorship in Turkey including Althusser, Spinoza and Camus

Posted on November 22, 2017 by stuartelden

Thanks to G.M. Goshgarian for bringing this to my attention – Books come under suspicion in post-coup Turkey. This obviously needs to be seen in the wider context of Turkish politics, but seems indicative of what is being reported about academics … Continue reading →

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Stuart Hall bibliography – compiled by Nick Beech for the Stuart Hall Foundation

Posted on November 21, 2017 by stuartelden

Stuart Hall bibliography – compiled by Nick Beech for the Stuart Hall Foundation The Stuart Hall Foundation has published a bibliography of Stuart Hall’s published works, including all known political, literary, critical, theoretical, creative prose and poetry, interviews, and ephemera, … Continue reading →

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CFP 2nd International and Multidisciplinary Conference on Baudrillard Studies – Oxford, 5-7 September 2018

Posted on November 21, 2017 by stuartelden

Applied Baudrillard: 2nd International and Multidisciplinary Conference on Baudrillard Studies – Oxford, 5-7 September 2018 Confirmed Keynote Speakers to date: Professor Mike Gane (Loughborough University) This is the Call For Papers for the 2nd International Conference on Baudrillard Studies to … Continue reading →

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Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan (eds.), Life in the Age of Drone Warfare

Posted on November 20, 2017 by stuartelden

Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan (eds.), Life in the Age of Drone Warfare – now out with Duke University Press. This volume’s contributors offer a new critical language through which to explore and assess the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions … Continue reading →

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150 Years of Marx’s Capital, with David Harvey, Nancy Holmstrom, Ajay Singh Chaudhary

Posted on November 20, 2017 by stuartelden

150 Years of Marx’s Capital, with David Harvey, Nancy Holmstrom, Ajay Singh Chaudhary (via Reading Marx’s Capital)

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The Early Foucault Update 14 – another month of slow, steady progress

Posted on November 20, 2017 by stuartelden

It’s been a month since the last update on this book, and it’s been another one of slow, steady progress. As I said in the last update, before term began I made a list of smaller tasks which I thought … Continue reading →

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Elisabetta R. Bertolino, Adriana Cavarero: Resistance and the Voice of Law

Posted on November 20, 2017 by stuartelden

Elisabetta R. Bertolino, Adriana Cavarero: Resistance and the Voice of Law, forthcoming with Routledge in 2018. Critical legal scholars have made us aware that law is made up not only of rules but also of language. But who speaks the … Continue reading →

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