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Blind Beggar

Posted on June 23, 2010 by stuartelden

Because I was going to see Derek Gregory give a talk at Queen Mary this evening (which was very good), I decided to get off the tube at Whitechapel and walk towards QM and find a pub to watch the … Continue reading →

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In praise of Macquarrie and Robinson

Posted on June 22, 2010 by stuartelden

Both Graham Harman and Peter Gratton have posts up reporting on the news that there will be a new translation of Heidegger’s Being and Time. This is a revision of the Joan Stambaugh translation that SUNY published, done by Dennis … Continue reading →

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Cartographies of the Absolute

Posted on June 22, 2010 by stuartelden

Infinite Thought reports that Alberto Toscano has a new project underway. There is a blog and a forthcoming book written with Jeff Zinkle on cognitive mapping with Zer0. Looking interesting. Alberto was a PhD student at Warwick when I taught … Continue reading →

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Harman on Meillassoux

Posted on June 21, 2010 by stuartelden

Interesting post from Graham Harman on Meillassoux’s After Finitude here. Some small things to note – I hadn’t realised that the English translation of the book was not simply the same text as the French; there is a nice criterion … Continue reading →

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Clare O’Farrell on Foucault and philosophy

Posted on June 16, 2010 by stuartelden

Interesting post from Clare on the state of philosophy as an academic discipline, both intellectually and institutionally – http://inputs.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/foucault-and-philosophy/

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OOO and GIS – request

Posted on June 14, 2010 by stuartelden

Jeremy Crampton – my co-editor on the Foucault and Geography book and a couple of other projects – has a request for OOO people on his Foucault blog… I wouldn’t mind getting a perspective on computer/GI Science “ontologies” from some … Continue reading →

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Object Orientated Philosophy and the History of Ideas

Posted on June 12, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham has kindly responded to my previous post on this in some comments here. I should say right up front – and Graham seems to realise this – that I’m trying to understand the positions in relation to own concerns, … Continue reading →

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Harman, Meillassoux and the Spectrum of Realism

Posted on June 11, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has a fascinating post here on what he calls Meillassoux’s spectrum, which runs “from ‘most classically realist’ to ‘least classically realist’”. 1. naive realists/dogmatists: the people Kant destroyed, even in Meillassoux’s view 2. weak correlationists: Kant; “we can’t know … Continue reading →

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Some forthcoming London talks

Posted on June 10, 2010 by stuartelden

Stephen White, Continental and/versus Analytical Political Thought, School of Public Policy, 14 June – details (Jane Bennett as discussant) Marshall Berman, Urban Ruins: City Life with Urbicide, University of East London, 16 June – details Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture, Whitechapel Gallery, … Continue reading →

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Ladyman and Ross review

Posted on June 10, 2010 by stuartelden

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews has a discussion of Ladyman and Ross, Every Thing Must Go here. The book was the topic of Graham Harman’s Dundee lecture, which as he notes here, is forthcoming in Society and Space.

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