Category Archives: Politics

David Harvey in Athens

Posted on June 28, 2012 by stuartelden

via the Reading Marx’s Capital blog, which also links to photos and audio.

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Amin and Thrift, Arts of the Political

Posted on June 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift’s new book, Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left is due out in March 2013 with Duke University Press. Very little on the publisher site as yet.

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Political Geology in Lancaster

Posted on June 22, 2012 by stuartelden

I gave a very short version of my “Fossils” talk at the Political Geology: Stratigraphies of Power workshop at Lancaster University yesterday. A very interesting event and the beginning of some useful discussions. It reinvigorated my interest in a project I’d rather … Continue reading →

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Border Walls – Reece Jones

Posted on June 20, 2012 by stuartelden

Forthcoming in July with Zed books. At the Zed books blog, Reece discusses 10 years of the Israeli wall in the West Bank. Here’s the blurb on the book: Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek’s response to the campaign against Syriza

Posted on June 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Greek Left Review:
The campaign against SYRIZA in the days before elections is getting nastier and nastier – since our enemies control the big media, they can permit themselves direct lies, knowing that our answer cannot reach…

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Hardt and Negri declaration

Posted on June 14, 2012 by stuartelden

This is not a mani­festo. Mani­fes­tos provide a glimpse of a world to come and also call into being the sub­ject, who although now only a specter must mater­i­al­ize to become the agent of change. Mani­fes­tos work like the ancient … Continue reading →

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Critical Climate Change

Posted on June 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Intriguing new series of books from Open Humanities Press. Details here. Open Humanities Press is pleased to launch a new series in literary and cultural theory published in conjunction with the University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office. Each Critical … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory – Supplying war in Afghanistan: the frictions of distance

Posted on June 12, 2012 by stuartelden

At the Open Democracy website. Pakistan has said NATO’s supply convoys can cross the Afghan border so long as America’s drones do not. Though the expanded use of cyberwarfare, covert special forces and drones is designed to overcome the frictional … Continue reading →

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Erik Swyngedouw, Andy Merrifield, Neil Smith – Every Revolution has its Space

Posted on June 6, 2012 by stuartelden

“Every Revolution has its Space: from Occupying Squares to Transforming Cities?” Presentations by: Erik Swyngedouw, Andy Merrifield, Neil Smith. Audio here. Thanks to Colin McFarlane for the link.

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Peter Hallward on the Quebec student protests

Posted on June 1, 2012 by stuartelden

In The Guardian. My colleagues at Society and Space are trying to get some pieces on this topic for the journal’s open site. I’ll link to them when there.

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