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Derek Gregory’s tribute to Peter Meusburger

Posted on January 1, 2018 by stuartelden

Derek Gregory has a very nice tribute to Peter Meusburger, who died in December.

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William V. Spanos (1925-2017)

Posted on January 1, 2018 by stuartelden

Literary critic and theorist William V. Spanos died on 29th December. His boundary 2 colleague Paul Bové has a brief report here. Although I never met him or heard him speak, I really liked his books Heidegger and Criticism, The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: … Continue reading →

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Novels and biographies read in 2017

Posted on January 1, 2018 by stuartelden

A list of the novels and biographies I read in 2017. For the most part these are the reading I do which is not related to work, though some of the biographies blur that line. A mixed bag, of which … Continue reading →

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A year in review – publications, writing, talks, etc.

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

This is my last day of work in 2017. Tomorrow we head to Tenerife for ten days holiday, hoping for sunshine and lots of cycling. The last major work task I completed today was the copyediting queries for Shakespearean Territories. … Continue reading →

Posted in Canguilhem (book), Cycling, Foucault's Last Decade, Foucault: The Birth of Power, Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, Music, Publishing, Shakespearean Territories, terrain, Territory, The Birth of Territory, The Early Foucault, Travel, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare, Writing | 1 Comment

My favourite academic books of 2017

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

  I don’t think I read as many new books this year as previous years, and the ‘to read’ piles get ever higher… But these are the academic books published in 2017 which I particularly liked: Update: the lists for … Continue reading →

Posted in Arlette Farge, Bruno Latour, Caren Kaplan, China Mieville, David Harvey, Ernst Kantorowicz, Eyal Weizman, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Neil Brenner, Politics, Setha Low, Sigmund Freud, Theory, Uncategorized, urban/urbanisation, William E Connolly, Writing | 12 Comments

Workshop Report from Territory, Law and the Anthropocene (Warwick, 1 December 2017)

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

My brief Workshop Report from the Territory, Law and the Anthropocene event held at the University of Warwick, 1 December 2017 is now up at the ICE-LAW Project site. On 1 December 2017, the Territory subgroup held its second workshop, Territory, Law … Continue reading →

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Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault in the Contemporary Archive

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

While I’m still waiting for her book, Foucault on Painting, to make it across the Atlantic, Catherine Soussloff has written a very interesting post about working on Foucault’s unpublished writings on painting to be found in the archives. Last spring, … Continue reading →

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Viewpoint Magazine forum on The Crisis of Marxism – Althusser, Balibar, Poulantzas, Buci-Glucksmann, etc.

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

The Crisis of Marxism – Asad Haider and Patrick King in Viewpoint Magazine Crisis Theory | Asad Haider In 1977 Louis Althusser gave a famous speech in Venice on “the crisis of Marxism,” a thesis almost as scandalous as that of an epistemological … Continue reading →

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On turning down poorly-paid, limited value, academic work

Posted on December 19, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve just turned down another invitation to write an encyclopaedia entry. I agonised about it, and ended up posting about it on my personal Facebook page. The issue was in part the payment – £40 for 2000-2500 words. I’d be … Continue reading →

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Reflections on academic publishing in Fennia: International Journal of Geography

Posted on December 19, 2017 by stuartelden

The new issue of Fennia: International Journal of Geography has a number of reflections on academic publishing. Contributors include Krisi Pauliina Kallio and James Riding, Simon Batterbury, John C. Finn, Simon Springer, and Sara Fregonese. All pieces are available open access.

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