Category Archives: People

Jean Gottmann – The Significance of Territory

Posted on November 12, 2012 by stuartelden

The editors of Geographica Helvetica have asked me to contribute a short piece to their relaunch issue. They asked me to write a piece on past geographical text, reevaluating its contemporary worth and relevance. This is for one of the … Continue reading →

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Daniel Defert and the Foucault archives

Posted on November 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Foucault News links to an interview with Daniel Defert on the Foucault archives and a separate piece with some more details: Il ne s’agit pas encore du trésor, mais déjà de sa cartographie : un inventaire de 63 pages décrivant le contenu … Continue reading →

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Foucault after Agamben: Rethinking the Language of Biopolitics – call for panellists

Posted on November 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Najeeb Jan is seeking panelists for the 2013 Los Angeles meeting of the AAG. Please note since this is a panel discussion, you will not need to submit an abstract. If you are interested in joining the panel discussion please email … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Rée reviews Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life

Posted on November 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life is reviewed by Jonathan Rée at New Humanist (via ANTHEM).

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Books received

Posted on November 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Chris Butler’s book on Lefebvre; Conley’s Spatial Ecologies; Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography (can’t quite believe I actually bought this); Campe’s The Game of Probability; first edition of Lindberg, The Beginning of Western Science (thanks Nick); a second-hand copy of … Continue reading →

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GURU ‘Justice and the City’ conference

Posted on November 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Newcastle University, 15-16 November, “Justice and the City”. Speakers include Jean Hillier, Patsy Healey, Stephen Graham, Don Mitchell and Matthew Gandy. Full details here.

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Shakespearean Territories – Durham, Oxford, York

Posted on November 7, 2012 by stuartelden

I’m giving various talks on my Shakespearean Territories project over the next few months. In November, I’ll be speaking in my own department at a workshop on Politicised Literary Geographies, and then to the 1887 Society at Mansfield College, University … Continue reading →

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Gaston Gordillo – The Destruction of Space

Posted on November 7, 2012 by stuartelden

At Space and Politics, Gaston Gordillo has posted a fascinating excerpt from his forthcoming book The Afterlife of Places: Ruins and the Destruction of Space. Here’s the opening paragraph: The violent destruction of the void of the Gran Chaco by the state … Continue reading →

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FiveThirtyEight – counting the US election

Posted on November 6, 2012 by stuartelden

I probably should have posted this a while back, but this blog at the NY Times has been the most useful thing I’ve being reading on the US election and the complications of the Electoral College system. One of the … Continue reading →

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Interview with Simon Critchley – ‘The Tragic and its Limits’

Posted on November 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting interview with Simon Critchley at The White Review. There is a quite a bit of discussion of his forthcoming co-authored book The Hamlet Doctrine.

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