Category Archives: People

‘How should we do the history of territory?’ – Berkeley audio

Posted on September 16, 2011 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my Berkeley talk is now available. Many thanks to Ilaria Giglioli for making the recording. “How should we do the history of territory”, University of California, Berkeley, 14 September 2011.

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Foucault sculpture in a nursing home

Posted on September 14, 2011 by stuartelden

Okay, this is odd. A Dutch nursing home, built in the form of a panopticon, has a sculpture of Foucault’s head and one forearm in the foyer. Brief video clip below, and story here. Thanks to Mark Kelly for the … Continue reading →

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Stuart Hall on neoliberalism

Posted on September 13, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting piece in The Guardian. [Update longer versionin Soundings here – thanks to Peter Gratton, via Paul Gilroy, for the link]

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Details of Berkeley and Tucson lectures

Posted on September 12, 2011 by stuartelden

14 September 2011 – “How should we do the history of territory?” Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, USA (details) 16 September 2011 – ”How should we do the history of territory?” School of Geography and Development, University of … Continue reading →

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Sensualising Deformity – Call for papers

Posted on September 12, 2011 by stuartelden

This could be interesting. Sensualising Deformity: Communication and Construction of Monstrous Embodiment, at the University of Edinburgh, June 15-16 2012. The link takes you to the call for papers, and they have a linked blog. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is one of … Continue reading →

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Sloterdijk Spheres I: Bubbles

Posted on September 11, 2011 by stuartelden

MIT Press have a page up for Semiotext(e)’s forthcoming translation of Sloterdijk’s Bubbles: Spheres Volume I – Microspherology. That site says September; Amazon (both UK and US) have it listed for October. The translations of volumes II and III are in … Continue reading →

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Sloterdijk Now endorsees and dates

Posted on September 11, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve heard that the book will be endorsed by Sylvère Lotringer and Claire Colebrook. Both are people whose work I respect greatly, and so I’m thrilled they agree to do this. Perhaps appropriately given Sloterdijk’s own style (discussed in the … Continue reading →

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Christian Parenti and David Harvey discussion

Posted on September 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Christian Parenti (author of a terrific book on Iraq The Freedom) in conversation with David Harvey about his new book Tropic of Chaos. Christian Parenti: Tropic of Chaos from CenterforPlaceCulturePolitics on Vimeo.

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Radical Foucault

Posted on September 10, 2011 by stuartelden

The conference was very good, and my lecture seemed to be well received. There were a lot of questions and good discussion afterwards, which I always take to be a good sign. Lots of interest in the course I was … Continue reading →

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Lefebvre and Poulantzas review essay

Posted on September 9, 2011 by stuartelden

The new issue of Society and Space is out. Among the interesting papers is a review essay by Andrew Jonas of The Poulantzas Reader and the State, Space, World collection of Henri Lefebvre’s work that Neil Brenner and I edited. … Continue reading →

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