Category Archives: Politics

More on UC campus violence

Posted on November 21, 2011 by stuartelden

A lot of important discussion – some I’ve found useful include: A Storify compilation on ‘Police Brutality at Occupy’. An interview with one of the sprayed students. Plastic Bodies takes apart the idea that that is was a legitimate response. … Continue reading →

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‘Occupy’ – the word and its history

Posted on November 20, 2011 by stuartelden

Tim Morton has posted the entry on ‘Occupy‘ from the Oxford English Dictionary – the full, multi-volume, historical one, not a concise version. It’s very interesting.

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UC campus violence

Posted on November 20, 2011 by stuartelden

These videos have been widely circulated, but just in case people haven’t come across them before. First, the assault on protestors at UC Berkeley: And then on students at UC Davis protesting in their support: A less often linked version … Continue reading →

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David Harvey – Deutscher Prize Lecture 2011

Posted on November 19, 2011 by stuartelden

David Harvey, “History versus Theory: A Commentary on Marx’s Method in Capital”, 11 November 2011, The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Lecture

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Arundhati Roy at OWS

Posted on November 19, 2011 by stuartelden

The Guardian has a transcript. Via the Verso blog.

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Society and Space on Occupy

Posted on November 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Over at the Society and Space open site, Deb Cowen presents five reflections from editorial board members on the Occupy movement. Elena Trubina, Eduardo Mendieta, Juliet Fall, Ananya Roy, and Deborah Bird Rose are posted so far, with more to … Continue reading →

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טריטוריה

Posted on November 16, 2011 by stuartelden

The Hebrew translation of my ‘Land, Terrain, Territory’ piece is now available in html or pdf. (You can read some earlier thoughts on the politics of translation concerning this process in an earlier post here.)

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Elden, Gregory, Sevilla-Buitrago in ACME

Posted on November 12, 2011 by stuartelden

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, Vol 10 No 2 is now available. It includes the English version of a discussion between me, Derek Gregory and Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago that was originally published earlier this year in a Spanish translation: … Continue reading →

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Roundup – things to read

Posted on November 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Hardt and Negri on “The Problem of Transition” (supposedly on the Occupy movement, but really an excerpt from Commonwealth) David Campbell – ‘The elusive enemy: Looking back at the “war on terror’s” visual culture’ On Landscape Ontology: An Interview with … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory – ‘Lines of Descent’

Posted on November 9, 2011 by stuartelden

Derek Gregory’s ‘Lines of Descent’ essay is available at Open Democracy. There are a number of other papers linked to this weekend’s ‘Shock and Awe’ conference here.

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