Category Archives: teaching

David Storey, Territories

Posted on January 19, 2012 by stuartelden

David Storey’s Territory: The Claiming of Space has now been published in a second edition, retitled Territories: The Claiming of Space. It’s a really helpful overview of events and debates and a great textbook which I use in my teaching. … Continue reading →

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University of Sydney and research ‘project management’

Posted on December 7, 2011 by stuartelden

I posted the first link I was sent about the situation at the University of Sydney yesterday, in the long message about email. It is worth a look – a statement by a large number of faculty members about the … Continue reading →

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To do list

Posted on December 2, 2011 by stuartelden

In the immortal words of Malcolm Tucker, “I’ve got a to-do list longer than a Leonard Cohen song”… One of the things that has suffered has been this blog. As the last, somewhat grumpy, post indicated, we are moving, and so that has … Continue reading →

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End of October

Posted on October 28, 2011 by stuartelden

October has been a slog. I’ve now done half of my teaching for this academic year. In one month. Okay, this means that the rest of the year is going to be relatively easy on that front, but naturally there … Continue reading →

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Foucault on the disciplinary society

Posted on October 21, 2011 by stuartelden

Just an audio recording, but Foucault on Discipline and Punish and what he was showing in that book – in English. I played the first five minutes to my students today to help explain the relation between the prison and … Continue reading →

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Research and the UCU action – an infrequently asked question?

Posted on October 15, 2011 by stuartelden

Another week, another message from Sally Hunt of the UCU. This is the end of the first week of the ‘work to contract’ action of the union in response to pensions. (See my earlier scepticism here.) The message is self-congratulatory, … Continue reading →

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Free Downloads

Posted on October 14, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve added a couple of new pieces to the ‘Free Downloads’ page, and right at the bottom you can find the reading lists for teaching, as requested recently. Where I am able to do so, I will put stuff here … Continue reading →

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First week teaching

Posted on October 12, 2011 by stuartelden

Back to teaching, and good to be back in the classroom. In the first term our weeks run Thursday-Wednesday (which is confusing) so as my teaching is on Friday, Tuesday and Wednesday this means I’ve just finished the first week. … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Meillassoux

Posted on September 21, 2011 by stuartelden

After a hugely frustrating day on teaching bureaucracy (assessment proformas, reading lists, online teaching sites, etc.) amazon.fr sends me an email saying they’ve just sent my copies of Quentin Meillassoux, Le nombre et la sirène (on Mallarmé, released today) and Foucault … Continue reading →

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Lectures on Foucault

Posted on September 1, 2011 by stuartelden

I give two different lectures on Foucault this month. One is at the Radical Foucault conference in London (8th-9th Sept), and then the second is given at both UC Berkeley and University of Arizona the following week. The paper for … Continue reading →

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