Category Archives: Publishing

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen on Writing

Posted on August 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Posts I’ve made on writing, i.e. here and here, have received some of the most attention of any on this blog. So people may find Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s post on writing useful. Lots of examples, good advice, and personal recollections.

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Academic publishers and access to articles

Posted on August 15, 2011 by stuartelden

This was posted to the crit-geog-forum list earlier today, in response to a suggestion that all list members refuse to sign standard journal copyright forms, retaining the rights to put their work online as open access immediately. The Science Commons website – http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/scae/ – was … Continue reading →

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Ben Woodard, On An Ungrounded Earth

Posted on August 14, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting looking book coming out soon – Ben Woodard, On an Ungrounded Earth: Towards a New Geophilosophy (thanks to Tim Morton for the link). From the Punctum books website Geophilosophy is an odd form of philosophy torn between an overly … Continue reading →

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Ashgate sale

Posted on August 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Ashgate have some very good books, but they tend to be expensive hardbacks. They currently have a sale (not apparently applicable in the Americas, unfortunately) where all many books are down to £25 until 25 Oct 2011 – and authors/editors … Continue reading →

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A little more on writing

Posted on August 8, 2011 by stuartelden

My recent post on writing in response to a Foucault passage has received more notice than almost any other post I’ve made here. In particular, take a look at the different perspectives offered by Mark Purcell, Paul Simpson, Oliver Belcher … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Writing; Making Time for Writing

Posted on July 29, 2011 by stuartelden

From Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault site – reposted with commentary at her Refracted Input blog: Does there exist a pleasure in writing? I don’t know. One thing is certain, that there is, I think, a very strong obligation to write. I don’t … Continue reading →

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Global Politics – 2nd edition

Posted on July 28, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve just completed revising my chapter “Why is the world divided territorially?” for the second edition of Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss (eds.) Global Politics: A New Introduction. The book has an interesting approach – rather than teach international or … Continue reading →

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Reactions to the Berfrois review

Posted on July 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Peter Gratton offers some thoughts in response to my review of Foucault’s 1970-71 course here. Interesting ideas about how the claims could be read as a critique of the crisis of legitimation argument in modernity. I think this might be … Continue reading →

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This Is Not The End Of The Book

Posted on July 13, 2011 by stuartelden

Just finished reading Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carrière’s book-length series of dialogues This Is Not The End Of The Book. It’s an interesting, engaging and sometimes annoyingly showy discussion, ranging widely across book-related topics such as libraries, editing, publishing, private collections, … Continue reading →

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Bloomsbury buys Continuum

Posted on July 12, 2011 by stuartelden

Bloomsbury (publishers of Harry Potter and more recently Bloomsbury Academic) have bought Continuum. Continuum were my first publisher with Mapping the Present – though I signed the contract with Athlone, which they acquired while the book was in production – … Continue reading →

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