Category Archives: People

By Sovereignty of Nature: Ralph Fiennes’s Coriolanus

Posted on February 20, 2012 by stuartelden

My piece on Coriolanus has now been published at Berfrois. [update: Julia Reinhard Lupton links to this from her valuable Thinking with Shakespeare blog – and in doing so describes me as a ‘progressive geographer’… I like it, and perhaps … Continue reading →

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Cambridge discussion audio

Posted on February 20, 2012 by stuartelden

The audio recording of the discussion on 16 February 2012 with Adam Ramadan is now available. Many thanks to Adam for asking the questions and John Mason and the Cambridge University Geographical Society for inviting me and organising the event. Apart from a … Continue reading →

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Ian Bogost – Alien Phenomenology

Posted on February 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Ian Bogost has news of his very shortly forthcoming book Alien Phenomenology, with  University of Minnesota Press. A bold new metaphysics that explores how all things—from atoms to green chiles, cotton to computers—interact with, perceive, and experience one another In … Continue reading →

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Gerard Toal on political affect

Posted on February 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting post from Gerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail) on political affect, which links to a piece he wrote for Antipode in 2004, and where he promises to develop an affective geopolitics. Most contemporary geographers will be aware that the discipline … Continue reading →

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Unpublished Foucault interview

Posted on February 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Foucault News links to a previously unpublished interview with Foucault from 1977. Some interesting discussion of history, genealogy and archaeology; the question of strategy; politics, state, classes and state apparatuses; power, sexuality and the body… The beginning of the Présentation follows: … Continue reading →

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Bingo – Shakespeare

Posted on February 18, 2012 by stuartelden

Went to see Edward Bond’s play Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death last night at the Young Vic. Very good, and especially interesting for the playing out of the tensions with the Enclosures Act – perhaps even more so than … Continue reading →

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New APPS interview with Eduardo Mendieta

Posted on February 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Find it here. A fascinating story of his background and the huge range of things he works on.

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At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean

Posted on February 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Having done some review work for Continuum, one of the books I asked for was Steve Mentz, At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean. The book had been sitting on my desk for a few days before I took it with … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory – British Academy lecture

Posted on February 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Deadly Embrace: War, Distance and Intimacy Professor Derek Gregory FBA Wednesday 14 March, 2012, 6.00-7.15pm The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH It has become commonplace to claim that contemporary wars are fought from a distance: the … Continue reading →

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Security and Geopolitical Space – readings

Posted on February 14, 2012 by stuartelden

My visit to the University of Kentucky for the Committee on Social Theory is part of a class on ‘Security’. The idea is that the four visiting speakers give public lectures and then have a discussion session with the students taking … Continue reading →

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