Category Archives: People

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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Heidegger’s handwriting

Posted on March 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Came across this again (it’s mentioned in Speaking Against Number). Something very interesting in seeing the handwriting of people you’d only before read in print. With Foucault and Lefebvre I’ve seen originals in the archives; with Heidegger at the Heidegger museum … Continue reading →

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Matt Hannah – Dark Territory Review forum

Posted on March 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Review forum on Matthew Hannah’s book Dark Territory in the Information Age – here (requires subscription). Pieces by Neil Smith, Stephen Legg, Bernd Beliner, Patricia Ehrkamp and Jeremy Crampton, with a reply by Hannah. Such a shame about the prohibitive … Continue reading →

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Stephen Graham on Olympic London

Posted on March 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Great piece in The Guardian. As a metaphor for the London Olympics, it could hardly be more stark. The much-derided “Wenlock” Olympic mascot is now available in London Olympic stores dressed as a Metropolitan police officer. For £10.25 you, too, … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek on The Wire

Posted on March 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Link to audio and story here. Also provides the link to the Fredric Jameson piece I mentioned some time back.

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Singularum – first issue on Alphonso Lingis

Posted on March 11, 2012 by stuartelden

New online journal – first issue is on Alphonso Lingis, including papers by Graham Harman, Timothy Morton and John Protevi. And there is an interview with man himself, taking photography and geography as the ways into his work, here.

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