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Jacques Derrida, The Death Penalty, Volume II reviewed at NDPR

Posted on October 29, 2017 by stuartelden

Jacques Derrida, The Death Penalty, Volume II reviewed at NDPR by Deborah Goldgaber. Here’s the publisher’s description of this volume: In the first volume of his extraordinary analysis of the death penalty, Jacques Derrida began a journey toward an ambitious end: … Continue reading →

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Shannon Mattern, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media – now out with UMP

Posted on October 29, 2017 by stuartelden

Shannon Mattern, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media – now out with University of Minnesota Press. A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of … Continue reading →

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Roger Keil, Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In – now out with Polity

Posted on October 29, 2017 by stuartelden

Roger Keil, Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In – now out with Polity. The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive growth in urbanization is often referred to as an ‘urban revolution’, most of the twenty-first century’s … Continue reading →

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Antonio Gramsci, The Prison Notebooks – exhibition in London

Posted on October 25, 2017 by stuartelden

Antonio Gramsci, The Prison Notebooks – exhibition in London Exhibition curated by Silvio Pons and Francesco Giasi Italian Cultural Institute 39 Belgrave Square London SW1X 8NX 30 October – 10 November 2017 Monday to Friday 10am – 6pm (closed on … Continue reading →

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Political Geology Workshop @ Cambridge, 17 November 2017

Posted on October 25, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Mutable Matter:
Political Geology: Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life Friday 17 November 2017 University of Cambridge Department of Geography Seminar Room 10am – 5pm What and where is the geos in geopolitics? This workshop will…

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Michel Foucault « Un très beau feu d’artifice » (2016)

Posted on October 25, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault « Un très beau feu d’artifice » Critique 2016/12 (n° 835) Présentation En 1978, devant des étudiants californiens, Michel Foucault rêvait à haute voix de « livres bombes » : ils ne tueraient…

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Media Theory – launch issue of new online, open access journal

Posted on October 25, 2017 by stuartelden

Media Theory – launch issue of new online, open access journal edited by Simon Dawes. Media Theory is an independent, online and open access journal of peer-reviewed, theoretical interventions into all aspects of media and communications. Vol 1 No 1 (2017): … Continue reading →

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Speaking Volumes – series of short contributions at Cultural Anthropology organised by Franck Billé

Posted on October 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Speaking Volumes – series of short contributions at Cultural Anthropology organised by Franck Billé. I have a piece in it on ‘terrain’. All open access. Speaking Volumes by Franck Billé Having engaged with the recent volumetric turn in architecture and … Continue reading →

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Audio and video recordings of Foucault – some updates to the list of those available online

Posted on October 23, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve added a few things to the list of Foucault audio and video recordings available online. These include a 1972 interview on the re-edition of Histoire de la folie (small charge to download). There are also five linked radio discussions with … Continue reading →

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Gordon Douglas, The Help-Yourself City: Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism, forthcoming from OUP

Posted on October 23, 2017 by stuartelden

Gordon Douglas, The Help-Yourself City: Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism – forthcoming from OUP in early 2018. When cash-strapped local governments fail to provide adequate services, and planning policies prioritize economic development over community needs, how do concerned citizens … Continue reading →

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