Category Archives: Publishing

Mary Beard on more footnotes

Posted on September 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Mary Beard follows up her previous column on footnotes (previously linked to) with another good discussion. Anyone who has read past p. 330 in The Birth of Territory will appreciate why I liked these two posts.

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Earth, Terricide, Geo-metrics

Posted on September 5, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve now nearly finished writing my keynote lecture for the Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance workshop at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (September 19-20). The title is “Geo-metrics” (abstract here). This is the third in a sequence of … Continue reading →

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Making edited collections work – a publisher’s perspective

Posted on September 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Rowman and Littlefield International offer some interesting perspectives and advice (see also the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog, where three people offer defences of edited collections – I’ve previously linked to this.)

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Cambridge Foucault Lexicon – forthcoming

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Cambridge University Press have a page up for the forthcoming The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, edited by Leonard Lawlor and John Nale. I wrote the entry on ‘space’. It looks like this is going to be another expensive, destined for libraries … Continue reading →

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In-divisible cities

Posted on August 31, 2013 by stuartelden

To pull cities together, and then push them apart. To feel their bricks crumble in our fingers like honeycomb, before fusing them once more between our palms. To hang the great capitals of the world from the crescent moon, like … Continue reading →

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The Geopolitics of King Lear – pdf available

Posted on August 19, 2013 by stuartelden

My article ‘The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth’ has now been published in Law and Literature, Vol 25 No 2, pp. 147-65. You can download the article freely here. I’m impressed by the way the University of California Press allow … Continue reading →

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Open access philosophy books

Posted on August 18, 2013 by stuartelden

Critical Theory links to five open access philosophy books that are worth reading. Three will be familiar to regular readers of this blog, but Penumbr(a) – a collection of essays from the journal Umbr(a) – and Immersion Into Noise are not ones I’ve linked to … Continue reading →

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Mary Beard on ‘the damn footnotes’

Posted on August 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Mary Beard has a good discussion of footnotes in her TLS column. Here’s the beginning: I know what I like, and don’t like, in a footnote: an accurate and precise reference to what ever is being discussed (I mean not a … Continue reading →

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San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

Posted on August 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Details here – via The Guardian.

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New Heidegger Research – book series

Posted on August 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Call for proposals for a new book series with Rowman International. New Heidegger Research publishes work by, about, and provoked by Martin Heidegger. The goal of the series is to promote informed and critical dialogue that breaks new philosophical ground … Continue reading →

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