Category Archives: People

materiali foucaultiani – first issue

Posted on March 23, 2012 by stuartelden

Italian journal materiali foucaultiani is now published. The issue has a theme section on ‘Geographies of power: space and heterotopias’. A pdf is available here; you can view it in issuu here. French and English texts are promised for the … Continue reading →

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Millennium conference – date correction

Posted on March 22, 2012 by stuartelden

Please note the date 20-21 October 2012 is correct – not as previously advertised.

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Greenblatt on Shakespeare and Absolutism

Posted on March 20, 2012 by stuartelden

What is striking is that his work, alert to every human fantasy and longing, is allergic to the absolutist strain so prevalent in his world, from the metaphysical to the mundane. His kings repeatedly discover the constraints within which they … Continue reading →

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When Greenblatt met Clinton

Posted on March 20, 2012 by stuartelden

Good story in Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare’s Freedom (pp. 74-75). Greenblatt says how he was invited to the the White House for a poetry evening, and President Clinton gave a speech which mentioned Macbeth. This was, he remarked wryly, not the most … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory – Deadly Embrace

Posted on March 20, 2012 by stuartelden

The audio and slides of Derek Gregory’s British Academy lecture ‘Deadly Embrace: War, Distance and Intimacy’ are available here. He gave the same lecture at the University of Manchester yesterday, and it was excellent. Great dinner with Derek, Maja Zehfuss, … Continue reading →

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Alex Loftus – Everyday Environmentalism

Posted on March 18, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting new book out by Alex Loftus – Everyday Environmentalism: Creating an Urban Political Ecology with University of Minnesota Press. UMP kindly sent me a publicity copy, and the timing was good – I read it immediately after Matthew Gandy’s … Continue reading →

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Biking in the City

Posted on March 17, 2012 by stuartelden

Only just got round to reading David Byrne’s Bicycle Diaries, which isn’t quite what I expected. There is stuff on cycling, but of a very particular kind, which is resolutely urban, definitely not about speed or exercise, but as a … Continue reading →

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Jeff Malpas – Heidegger and the Thinking of Place

Posted on March 16, 2012 by stuartelden

Jeff Malpas’s book Heidegger and the Thinking of Place: Explorations in the Topology of Being is now out.  Endorsements from Andrew Benjamin, Julian Young and me. The idea of place–topos–runs through Martin Heidegger’s thinking almost from the very start. It … Continue reading →

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Review of Terror and Territory

Posted on March 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Bit late noticing this one – nice review of Terror and Territory in The Canadian Geographer by Jeremy Kowalski (requires subscription). Interesting to see the take on the book proposed here, which is not how I would have put it, … Continue reading →

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Review of Jenny Edkins, Missing: Persons and Politics

Posted on March 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Over at the Society and Space open site you can find my review of Jenny Edkins’s new book from Cornell University Press, Missing: Persons and Politics.

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