Category Archives: People

Babette Babich on the books that inspired her

Posted on December 3, 2012 by stuartelden

At the LSE blog, Babette Babich discusses the books that inspired her – wide-ranging and fascinating reading. Babette Babich is an American philosopher known for her studies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, and Hölderlin as well as for her work in … Continue reading →

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Books I’ve read and plan to read

Posted on December 2, 2012 by stuartelden

A book meme I took from Rob Kitchin’s The View from the Blue House and first answered a year ago. As before I’ve largely answered in relation to non-academic reading… The book I’m currently reading? Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles … Continue reading →

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Chris Philo – ‘A great space of murmurings’

Posted on December 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Chris Philo, “‘A great space of murmurings’: Madness, romance and geography”, Progress in Human Geography, online early (requires subscription). Prompted by the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Foucault’s famous book commonly known in English as Madness and Civilization, … Continue reading →

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Becker on Ewald on Foucault on Becker

Posted on December 1, 2012 by stuartelden

This is a really interesting idea – working paper and video (via Foucault News). In a series of lectures delivered in 1979 at the Collège de France under the title The Birth of Biopolitics, Michel Foucault conducted a close reading … Continue reading →

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Territory and Risk

Posted on November 30, 2012 by stuartelden

Two interesting looking collections, edited by Valérie November. More details here, and in the video she talks about the work. A paper on this topic in Society and Space, co-authored with Eduardo Camacho-Hübner and Bruno Latour, entitled “Entering a Risky … Continue reading →

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Interview with Erik Swyngedouw

Posted on November 29, 2012 by stuartelden

Clip from a longer interview with Erik Swyngedouw – thanks to Kenton Card for the link.  

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Interview with Jodi Dean

Posted on November 29, 2012 by stuartelden

Jodi Dean’s The Communist Horizonis getting quite a lot of attention. Figure/Ground Communication has an interview with her here.

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Rhythm of Capital – Reading Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis

Posted on November 29, 2012 by stuartelden

A blog entitled Rhythm of Capital – Reading Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis provides lots of videos of rhythms to exemplify some of Lefebvre’s themes. It’s run by students of New Media at University of Amsterdam. I was pointed to this site by … Continue reading →

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Urban Uprising! Re-imagining the City – conference in New York

Posted on November 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Further details here – via Experimental Geographies. In the wake of the 2008 explosion of the current economic crisis, more and more people are actively fighting to restore what they’ve lost. Not since the ‘60s have so many people across … Continue reading →

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Between Deleuze and Foucault flyer

Posted on November 25, 2012 by stuartelden

The conference I mentioned a few days ago has a flyer available here, with a new take on an iconic image.

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