Category Archives: Politics

Peter Osborne on Middlesex

Posted on July 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Bit late linking to this, but interesting interview with Peter Osborne on the Middlesex philosophy occupation and protests from last year.

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Mitch Rose on Egypt

Posted on July 18, 2011 by stuartelden

Commentary on democracy and transition in Egypt by Mitch Rose over at the Society and Space blog.

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Assange, Žižek, Goodman

Posted on July 12, 2011 by stuartelden

Julian Assange and Slavoj Žižek in dialogue with Amy Goodman here – there are plenty of excerpts on You Tube etc., but this is the full video recording.

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‘Assessing Ten Years of the War on Terror’

Posted on July 5, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve just agreed to be one of the speakers at an event entitled ‘Assessing Ten Years of the War on Terror”, organised by the Tyneside Stop-the-War Coalition and the Newcastle University Place/Space/Politics research cluster. Of course, one of the themes … Continue reading →

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AHRC and ‘Big Society’ – action needed

Posted on June 23, 2011 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Thom Brooks. Please read and consider writing: Dear friends and colleagues, My thanks again for your support in the campaign to persuade the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to remove the “Big Society” from … Continue reading →

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Roundup

Posted on June 13, 2011 by stuartelden

Very interesting interview with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen here. Beowulf and Grendel; why ‘speculative realism’ is more use for medieval studies than Agamben; race, gender, nationalism; and contemporary politics like the ‘war on terror’. Over at the Society and Space blog, Bradley … Continue reading →

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Territory without borders

Posted on June 11, 2011 by stuartelden

That’s the title of a piece I have forthcoming in the Harvard International Review. Some of the argument is rehearsed in other places, and I gave a keynote to the Global Studies Association in 2009 with this title. It’s an attempt to discuss … Continue reading →

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More on the New College

Posted on June 9, 2011 by stuartelden

Reactions at The Disorder of Things; another news report in The Guardian, which among other things suggests Dawkins has little to do with it, Singer will give a single lecture, and Oxford don’t like the name. Brian Leiter also hosts an odd poll, noting … Continue reading →

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More on the New College

Posted on June 7, 2011 by stuartelden

Birkbeck have issued a press release saying Grayling has resigned and that they are not providing facilities; Terry Eagleton calls it odious; the college is accused of copying syllabuses (shouldn’t that be syllabi?); in the same report we hear that Boris Johnston … Continue reading →

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New College for the Humanities

Posted on June 6, 2011 by stuartelden

A.C. Grayling’s proposed New College for the Humanities has a website here. For those who haven’t yet heard the news, it will charge £18,000 per year, have a list of 14 ‘star’ academics who will be involved in teaching to some … Continue reading →

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