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Derek Gregory on Robert Kaplan, The Revenge of Geography

Posted on September 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Both Jeremy Crampton and I have mentioned Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography, to be published this week. Drawing on Kaplan’s previous work, and providing some useful links to other discussions, Derek Gregory discusses it here.

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Žižek – The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

Posted on September 7, 2012 by stuartelden

The Verso blog has the news: After the success of The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, director Sophie Fiennes and the only philosopher-turned-film-star Slavoj Žižek return with The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology. Tonight marks the premiere of the film at the … Continue reading →

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Stuart Hall at 80

Posted on September 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting interview in the New Statesman – Englishness, the new Left, Gramsci, Labour, neoliberalism, etc. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link.

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Forthcoming talks

Posted on September 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Several talks for the 2012/13 academic year have been arranged. Two lectures have been in the diary for a while – the Critical International and Political Studies annual lecture at the University of Warwick in October (abstract here), and the George M. … Continue reading →

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Levi Bryant – The Gravity of Things: An Introduction to Onto-Cartography

Posted on September 6, 2012 by stuartelden

The text of his Dundee lecture next week is available online. This is part of his Onto-Cartographies project, forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press. He says a little about it in this post on his blog, and much more elsewhere on … Continue reading →

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‘Shakespearean Territories’ – abstract for Warwick

Posted on September 5, 2012 by stuartelden

This is my abstract for the Critical International and Political Studies annual lecture, University of Warwick, October 3rd 2012. This lecture shows how Shakespeare’s plays can help us to think about the multi-faceted nature of territory as word, concept and … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory – Frithjof Voss Stiftung award

Posted on September 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Speaking of Derek – congratulations are in order for the International Science Award of German Geography from the Frithjof Voss Stiftung. He has the details (and a good story or two) here.

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Speculations III published

Posted on September 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Free to download – either entire issue of 510 pages or individual articles here. You can also buy a paper copy here. Papers by Benjamin Norris, Levi Bryant, Christopher Norris, translations, reviews of Andy Merrifield, Bryant,  Harman etc. This is the … Continue reading →

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Recent Shakespeare reading

Posted on September 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Working on my paper for Warwick in October. Hamlet, Macbeth and possibly something on Othello.

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‘How to Read Žižek’ by Adam Kotsko

Posted on September 3, 2012 by stuartelden

In the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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