Category Archives: People

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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Foucault workshop in Maastricht

Posted on November 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Government, Truth, Subject – Michel Foucault and the late lecture courses at Collège de France. A colloquium at the Jan van Eyck Academie. The colloquium is devoted to Foucault’s late lectures at Collège de France (Du gouvernement des vivants [unpublished], … Continue reading →

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Neil Smith – “There’s No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster”

Posted on October 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Written in 2006, as a response to Hurricane Katrina, Neil Smith’s piece “There’s No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster” has lost none of its importance.

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Military Migrants

Posted on October 30, 2012 by stuartelden

Vron Ware’s new book, Military Migrants, is being launched at CCIG at the Open University on 14 November. Vron Ware will be in discussion with Brigadier Mark Abraham, Captain Afzal Amin, and Engin Isin, chaired by Evelyn Ruppert. Details here. The project … Continue reading →

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