Category Archives: People

Steve Mentz on Greenblatt’s The Swerve

Posted on December 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Further to yesterday’s post, here’s Steve Mentz on Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve.

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Greenblatt, The Swerve – prizes and criticisms

Posted on December 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Jeffrey Cohen has an interesting post on Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the World Became Modern which has been gathering prizes, including the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, and severe criticism at the same time. I have the book, … Continue reading →

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Nigel Thrift on the future of Big Ed(ucation)

Posted on December 7, 2012 by stuartelden

In the Chronicle of Higher Education. Here’s a couple of key paragraphs: It is possible to see a new political economy of higher education coming into existence born out of the huge increase in students around the world, as well … Continue reading →

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Urban/Territory/World

Posted on December 7, 2012 by stuartelden

The ‘Thinking Urban Worlds’ workshop at Durham was held on Wednesday. A very interesting afternoon of discussion organised by Colin McFarlane with presentations by Andy Merrifield and Simon Marvin, and discussant comments from Gordon MacLeod along with my own paper. … Continue reading →

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Gregynog Ideas Lab II

Posted on December 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Details now available of the second Postinternational Politics summer school in Gregynog, Wales.

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Film inspired by Paul Virilio’s Bunker Archaeology

Posted on December 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Short film inspired by Paul Virilio’s Bunker Archaeology. I discuss this in the ‘Secure the Volume’ paper forthcoming in Political Geography. Thanks to Bradley Garrett for the link. RUIN VALUE from robindegoede on Vimeo.

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Routledge books received

Posted on December 5, 2012 by stuartelden

I did some review work for Routledge a while back. These are the books I received in recompense – mainly some Judith Butler books I’d read but didn’t own; some for the Shakespeare project; and David Delaney’s The Spatial, the … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on December 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Another pile of books. David Martin-Jones, Deleuze and World Cinemas; the Heidegger & Nietzsche collection I have a piece in; the new biography of Derrida and Beyond Walls and Cages in recompense for review work; another one of Jean Gottmann’s works; … Continue reading →

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METAphorisms – Tim Morton and Tammy Lu

Posted on December 4, 2012 by stuartelden

A collaborative short piece by Tim Morton and Tammy Lu.

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Mapping… – reissue of the series from Verso

Posted on December 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Verso have reissued their Mapping series.  Mapping Ideology; edited by Slavoj Žižek; Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial, edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi and Mapping the Nation edited by Gopal Balakrishnan.

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