Category Archives: People

Bill Martin scholar session audio

Posted on November 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Bill Martin was the focus of a scholar session at the recent SPEP conference. Peter Gratton spoke at this and recorded it and has posted the audio here.

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Slavoj Žižek on Obama’s re-election

Posted on November 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Short piece in The Guardian. Preposterous and thoughtful all at the same time. Here’s one typical paragraph: In Europe, the ground floor of a building is counted as zero, so the floor above it is the first floor, while in the … Continue reading →

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Big books received

Posted on November 13, 2012 by stuartelden

The Thrift and Glennie book is 470 pages; Sloterdijk’s is 500; Parfit’s is a staggering 1,400 pages across the two volumes. All received in recompense for review work – I reviewed part of a reference work for OUP and the manuscript of the … Continue reading →

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Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics

Posted on November 13, 2012 by stuartelden

This looks a very interesting collection – full details and links to some excerpts here. Adam David Morton discusses the book and his chapter here.

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Elizabeth Grosz – interview with Interstitial teaser

Posted on November 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Fractured Politics has posted a brief excerpt from a forthcoming interview with Elizabeth Grosz and the new journal Interstitial.

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Foucault – Du gouvernement des vivants

Posted on November 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Just received – really looking forward to this.

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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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