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Tom Harper, Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library – October 2018

Posted on October 13, 2018 by stuartelden

Tom Harper, Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library – October 2018 (via the Maps and Views Blog) From the publication in 1595 of the first ‘atlas’ by Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator, the term has become a universally … Continue reading →

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Adrian J. Ivakhiv, Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times – Punctum Books, 2018

Posted on October 12, 2018 by stuartelden

Adrian J. Ivakhiv, Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times – Punctum Books, 2018 available in paperback or pdf download (minimum price $5; free after six months) Update: reader’s guide A spectre is haunting humanity: the spectre of a reality … Continue reading →

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Antoine Bousquet, The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone – U Minnesota Press, October 2018

Posted on October 12, 2018 by stuartelden

Antoine Bousquet, The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone – University of Minnesota Press, October 2018 (and website here) How perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war from the Renaissance to the present Antoine … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield, Endgame Marxism (and Urbanism)

Posted on October 12, 2018 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield on Marx, Beckett and more…

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Intervention – “Christine Blasey Ford and Geographies of Aggression and Repair”

Posted on October 12, 2018 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Natalie Oswin Department of Geography, McGill University natalie.oswin@mcgill.ca Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC on Thursday 27 September 2018. Commentaries on this event are already so numerous they…

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Cover design, endorsements and preorder details for Stuart Elden, Canguilhem – Polity, 2019

Posted on October 9, 2018 by stuartelden

I’m pleased to share the cover design of my forthcoming book Canguilhem (Polity, 2019). It’s part of the Key Contemporary Thinkers series and is available to preorder from Wiley in ebook, paperback and hardcover. The book is due for publication in February … Continue reading →

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Books received – Latour, TCS, Erlenbusch-Anderson, Geroulanos and Meyers, Benite, Geroulanos and Jerr (eds.), Bataille

Posted on October 9, 2018 by stuartelden

Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime; the latest Theory, Culture and Society which is a theme issue on Bataille and Heterology; Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire; Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, … Continue reading →

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Laurence Lampert, What a Philosopher Is? Becoming Nietzsche – reviewed at NDPR

Posted on October 9, 2018 by stuartelden

Laurence Lampert, What a Philosopher Is? Becoming Nietzsche (U Chicago Press, 2018) – reviewed at NDPR It’s a very critical review of what sounds like a fascinating book. I suspect there is something of the clash within North American approaches to … Continue reading →

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Liz Morrish and Helen Sauntson, Academic Irregularities: Language and Neoliberalism in Higher Education – forthcoming from Routledge

Posted on October 8, 2018 by stuartelden

Liz Morrish and Helen Sauntson, Academic Irregularities: Language and Neoliberalism in Higher Education – forthcoming from Routledge. Announcement on the Academic Irregularities blog, from which I’ve taken the following description: We all know that universities in the UK and elsewhere … Continue reading →

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Francesco Vitale, Biodeconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Life Sciences reviewed

Posted on October 5, 2018 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Francesco Vitale, Biodeconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Life Sciences is reviewed at NDPR by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. The book appeared earlier this year with SUNY Press, translated by Mauro Senatore. Update: another good review at Critical Inquiry (thanks to…

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