Category Archives: People

Zizek interview and speech

Posted on November 3, 2011 by stuartelden

  Slavoj Žižek interviewed by Al Jazeera. And a speech at at St. Mark’s bookshop. This is transcribed here. Both links via the Verso blog.

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Shock and Awe conference

Posted on November 1, 2011 by stuartelden

To be held in London in just over a week – details here. Derek Gregory is the closing speaker and you can find a shorter version of some of his arguments on this topic at Open Democracy.

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Collapse II – Speculative Realism free download

Posted on November 1, 2011 by stuartelden

Collapse II – the Speculative Realism issue with papers by Meillassoux, Harman, Negarestani, Brassier, etc. is available to download free here.

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Three good days in London

Posted on November 1, 2011 by stuartelden

Three good days in London. Susan and I had a nice walk through Holland Park (easily my favourite park in London); visited the St. Paul’s occupation; had a great evening at our friends’ birthday party; saw ‘The Ides of March’ … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek interview

Posted on October 29, 2011 by stuartelden

Video of an interview with Charlie Rose here.

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David Harvey – ‘The Party of Wall Street Meets its Nemesis’

Posted on October 29, 2011 by stuartelden

At the Verso blog.

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End of October

Posted on October 28, 2011 by stuartelden

October has been a slog. I’ve now done half of my teaching for this academic year. In one month. Okay, this means that the rest of the year is going to be relatively easy on that front, but naturally there … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling, Gottfried Leibniz, Medieval Studies, Music, Publishing, teaching, Territory, Travel, Universities, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Kentucky Committee on Social Theory lectures

Posted on October 28, 2011 by stuartelden

The three other lectures in the University of Kentucky’s Committee on Social Theory spring 2012 series will be given by Michael Hardt, Russ Castronovo and Jane Guyer. Details here. Those are terrific names, and the shame of it – for … Continue reading →

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Noel Castree reviews Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on October 28, 2011 by stuartelden

In the Annals of the Association of American Geographers (requires subscription). Some bits: This excellent book, which oozes scholarly seriousness from start to finish, offers something new to philosophers and geographers alike. It focuses on Kant’s extensive lecture notes about … Continue reading →

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Critchley on Hamlet

Posted on October 26, 2011 by stuartelden

Thomas posted this as a comment to an earlier post, but since many people read this in ways where comments don’t show up, I’m reposting here, and have embedded the video below. You can see Critchley’s lecture on Hamlet at … Continue reading →

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