Category Archives: Politics

‘Peace Walls’ across the world – some striking photographs

Posted on May 3, 2014 by stuartelden

The translation is not good, but the images are striking – a collection of photographs of ‘peace walls’ across the world. Some in divided cities, some on disputed territory, some between states. The original Italian article is here.

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Marc Crépon, The Thought of Death and the Memory of War – reviewed at NDPR

Posted on May 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Marc Crépon, The Thought of Death and the Memory of War is reviewed at NDPR. I didn’t know about this translation before, but it sounds important and interesting: The first English translation of one of the foremost voices of contemporary moral and … Continue reading →

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Through the Lens: Sights and Sites of War – a screening and discussion of Dirty Wars, London, 27 May 2014

Posted on May 2, 2014 by stuartelden

A rearranged date for this screening and discussion of Jeremy Scahill’s Dirty Wars, organised by Royal Holloway Geopolitics & Security- 27 May 2014, London. Full details including booking (free, but required) here. Join us for an evening of film and discussion … Continue reading →

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Tom Slater’s Bibliography on ‘Territorial Stigmatization’

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

This is a useful resource – Tom Slater’s ‘An International Bibliography on Territorial Stigmatization‘. The work on this develops from Loïc Wacquant’s Urban Outcasts, and earlier references, with the suggestion that “the exploration of contemporary urban poverty must start with the powerful … Continue reading →

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Saskia Sassen, ‘Expulsions: Complexity and Brutality’ – lectures at Durham, LSE and Dublin

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Saskia Sassen’s Expulsions is forthcoming in June 2014. Saskia Sassen, “Expulsions: Complexity and Brutality” – lecture at Durham University in February 2014 (via ANTHEM). Update: a lecture at the LSE on the same topic is available here (via The Anthropo.scene] And one … Continue reading →

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Seeing the secret state with Trevor Paglen

Posted on April 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on War Law Space:
Earlier this week I blogged about Trevor Paglen’s new work over at Intercept, and now Joseph Lee (via Gab Olah) send news of a talk Paglen gave at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin last…

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E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left

Posted on April 30, 2014 by stuartelden

  E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics by E. P. Thompson; edited by Cal Winslow – out in June with Monthly Review Press. More details and endorsements at the site – here’s the blurb. E. P. Thompson … Continue reading →

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Nazism and the German Academy

Posted on April 29, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Eric Schwitzgebel provides a translation to the preface of a 1935 issue of the journal Kant-Studien, which shows just how much the academy (obviously not just Heidegger) rolled over Kantian and other philosophical…

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The Birth of Territory – a short piece at the Politics@Warwick blog

Posted on April 28, 2014 by stuartelden

There is a short piece on The Birth of Territory at the Politics@Warwick blog.

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Utopia or Bust by Benjamin Kunkel – Chapter One on David Harvey free online

Posted on April 28, 2014 by stuartelden

Chapter One of Benjamin Kunkel, Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis is free to read online. It’s mainly a discussion of David Harvey’s work.

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