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Lego Social Theory

Posted on April 11, 2012 by stuartelden

More Lego Social Theory – here. Thanks to Ben R for the link – Anthony Giddens, Angela McRobbie and Stuart Hall. The original figures of Foucault, Butler, Giddens and McRobbie are here.

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Gunnar Olsson on Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on April 10, 2012 by stuartelden

A detailed and very generous review (which becomes much more) of Reading Kant’s Geography by Gunnar Olsson in Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography (requires subscription): So hot are the connections between the geography/anthropology courses and Kant’s overall philosophy that the … Continue reading →

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Rereading novels

Posted on April 9, 2012 by stuartelden

The Guardian has a couple of features on rereading novels – a piece discussing it here, and some contemporary authors’ favourite novels to re-read here. This isn’t something I do very often with novels. I did when younger but now I … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Henri Lefebvre, Mapping the Present, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Travel, Umberto Eco, William Shakespeare | 10 Comments

Ralph Fiennes on Coriolanus

Posted on April 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting interview – though the bit on Coriolanus is about 18 minutes in.

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Every Revolution has its Space: from Occupying Squares to Transforming Cities?

Posted on April 5, 2012 by stuartelden

OpenSpace is pleased to announce this Leverhulme Visiting Professorship event at The University of Manchester: “Every Revolution has its Space: from Occupying Squares to Transforming Cities?” Presentations by: Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography, University of Manchester Andy Merrifield, Leverhulme Visiting … Continue reading →

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Back to the Café Algiers

Posted on April 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Four years ago, Neil and I had a series of work sessions in the Café Algiers, just off Harvard Square. These were in preparation for the ‘Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory’ paper – though our acknowledgement of the Café itself got … Continue reading →

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Planetary Urbanization

Posted on April 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Fascinating wide-ranging discussion with Neil Brenner’s ‘planetary urbanization’ seminar relating to space, territory, urbanization, the globe, world, nature, the planetary, species, capitalism, the state, the anthropocene… readings by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Nikolaos Katsikis, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Erle Ellis, Sarah Deyong, Timothy … Continue reading →

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Coriolanus in Edinburgh

Posted on April 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Just as with New York – when I spoke at the Anachronic Shakespeare conference at NYU before the AAG  – I’ll be speaking about Shakespeare before the RGS in Edinburgh. This will be the first (only?) outing for my paper on Coriolanus. It will be … Continue reading →

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Now only 1056 pages – Žižek’s Hegel book

Posted on April 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Graham Harman on the latest details of Žižek’s Hegel book. You can find the table of contents of Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism here. The Verso page is here.

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More downloads

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Elden, S. Rethinking the Polis: Implications of Heidegger’s Questioning the  Political. Political Geography. 2000;19:407-422. Elden, S. Some are Born Posthumously: The French Afterlife of Henri Lefebvre. Historical Materialism. 2006;14:185-202. Elden, S. Spaces of Humanitarian Exception. Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography. … Continue reading →

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