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A question on norms around honoraria

Posted on November 28, 2017 by stuartelden

A message from a North American academic: I have professional question for you. I ask because you have shared a lot on your blog about this kinds of issues: How does one determine one’s honorarium fee? Should one determine or … Continue reading →

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Trevor Paglen: art in the age of mass surveillance

Posted on November 27, 2017 by stuartelden

Trevor Paglen: art in the age of mass surveillance in The Guardian. Trevor Paglen describes himself as a landscape artist, but he is no John Constable. The landscapes Paglen frames extend to the bottom of the ocean and beyond the … Continue reading →

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BOOK: ‘Terror and Territory’ by Stuart Elden

Posted on November 27, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Geopolitics, Territory and Security:
Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty  Geographer and political theorist Stuart Elden’s Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty (2009) is a landmark contribution to literature dealing with the spatialities of…

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How I write and why I write – series of posts at A Trumpet of Sedition

Posted on November 26, 2017 by stuartelden

How I write and why I write – series of posts by historians at A Trumpet of Sedition. Posts by Simone Hanebaum, John Rees, Marcus Rediker, Alison Stuart, Gaby Mahlberg, etc. There are lots more posts about writing and publishing archived here.

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La pensée politique de Foucault (2017)

Posted on November 26, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
La pensée politique de Foucault sous la direction d’Orazio IRRERA et Salvo VACCARO Paris, Editions Kimé (coll. “Philosophie en cours”), 2017, p. 248. Loin d’être considérée comme une simple notion appartenant au vocabulaire de la…

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Say ‘Yes!’ to peer review: Open Access publishing and the need for mutual aid in academia

Posted on November 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Simon Springer et al (2017). Say ‘Yes!’ to peer review: Open Access publishing and the need for mutual aid in academia. Fennia 195: 2, pp. xx–xx. ISSN 1798-5617 [pdf, or scroll down list of forthcoming papers] Scholars are increasingly declining to … Continue reading →

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Navigating Marx in the Age of Trump: An Interview With David Harvey

Posted on November 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Navigating Marx in the Age of Trump: An Interview With David Harvey in The Observer This fall marks the 150th anniversary since the publication of Karl Marx’s Capital. In his groundbreaking series, Marx famously defined capital as value in motion, architecting an … Continue reading →

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The disintegration has already begun: Austerity politics at the end of Europe.

Posted on November 23, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
https://soundcloud.com/this-is-hell/978yanisvaroufakis

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In Dread of Derrida – discussion of Ethan Kleinberg’s new book, Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past

Posted on November 23, 2017 by stuartelden

An interesting discussion of Ethan Kleinberg’s new book, Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past, with a link to a panel discussion of the book with Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, Carol Gluck and Stefanos Geroulanos.

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Nigel Thrift reviews David Willetts, A University Education

Posted on November 23, 2017 by stuartelden

Nigel Thrift reviews David Willetts, A University Education in The Times Higher Education.

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