Category Archives: People

Barnett on Harvey

Posted on April 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Some thoughts on Rebel Cities (and baby vomit) here.

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Simon Critchley interview

Posted on April 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Interview with Simon Critchley here (via Verso blog). Among many other topics (love, death, Occupy, literature) one thing it reveals is that he is co-writing a book on Hamlet with his wife. What’s the Hamlet book about, if you don’t … Continue reading →

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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

Posted on April 12, 2012 by stuartelden

David Harvey’s new book is out – my copy was sent to Durham so I’ve not yet seen it. There is a review by Owen Hatherley here; and Harvey talks about the book here.

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Edinburgh Bodies in Movement seminar series

Posted on April 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Details up of the three seminars in this series – I’m giving the third of them – 2 July 2012, on Coriolanus. Apparently I will provide ‘a delicious geographical and material twist’ to the play and film…

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Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

Posted on April 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Details here; review at Berfrois here. The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and … Continue reading →

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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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