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David Harvey, ‘Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason’ – video of LSE talk

Posted on September 22, 2017 by stuartelden

David Harvey, ‘Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason’ – video of LSE talk, 18 September 2017 Download : Audio, Video Editor’s note: We regret to say that owing to a technical problem the first few minutes of the … Continue reading →

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Charlotte Mathieson on REF 2021 & ECRs: the current situation

Posted on September 22, 2017 by stuartelden

Charlotte Mathieson on REF 2021 & ECRs: the current situation If you’re an early career researcher – or even a bit further ahead than that – and based in the UK, this is a really helpful summary of the situation … Continue reading →

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Daniel Defert on the Foucault-Sartre relation – a 1990 letter

Posted on September 22, 2017 by stuartelden

This was not a source I knew about before: Daniel Defert, “Lettre à Claude Lanzmann”, Les Temps Modernes, No 531-533, Vol 2, 1990,  pp. 1201-1206. It’s a short piece in a massive 1400 page collection devoted to Sartre, ten years after … Continue reading →

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New titles in the Antipode Book Series for 2017

Posted on September 20, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
So far this year we’ve published three new titles in the Antipode Book Series: Other Geographies: The Influences of Michael Watts edited by Sharad Chari (University of California, Berkeley), Susanne Freidberg (Dartmouth College), Vinay Gidwani (University…

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Jean Wahl, Transcendence and The Concrete: Selected Writings reviewed at NDPR

Posted on September 20, 2017 by stuartelden

Jean Wahl, Transcendence and The Concrete: Selected Writings is reviewed at NDPR. Although not that well known in English, Wahl was a significant figure in France in the mid-twentieth century, and among other things was one of Foucault’s teachers. His book … Continue reading →

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‘7 things I wish I had done during my PhD’

Posted on September 20, 2017 by stuartelden

Some interesting thoughts here – ‘7 things I wish I had done during my PhD‘. Though largely from the perspective of a scientist, there are things here relevant to other disciplines.

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Responses to Peter Sloterdijk’s ‘Pseudonymous Politics’ (open access)

Posted on September 19, 2017 by stuartelden

A number of responses to Peter Sloterdjk’s ‘Pseudonymous Politics’ are now available to download from New Perspectives here. The original article is also open access here. Claudia Aradau – Performative Politics and International Relations – Friedrich Kratochwil – Of Myths, Lies, … Continue reading →

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Thresholds – A pop-up symposium – 22 September 2017, University of York

Posted on September 19, 2017 by stuartelden

Thresholds – A pop-up symposium – 22 September 2017, University of York Thresholds is intended to bring together diverse disciplines including sociology, politics, history, anthropology, women’s studies, critical management, human geography, social policy. The format will be a short papers … Continue reading →

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Jason Dittmer, Diplomatic Material: Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy

Posted on September 19, 2017 by stuartelden

Jason Dittmer’s new book, Diplomatic Material: Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy is out with Duke University Press. In Diplomatic Material Jason Dittmer offers a counterintuitive reading of foreign policy by tracing the ways that complex interactions between people and things … Continue reading →

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Genealogy and Political Theory, 29 September 2017, Amsterdam

Posted on September 14, 2017 by stuartelden

Workshop: Genealogy and Political Theory, 29 September 2017, 10.00 hrs. – 17.00 hrs. Campus Roeterseiland, building J/K, room B22 (Valckenierstraat 65-67, 1018 XE Amsterdam) In recent years, there has been a proliferation of works of and on genealogy by political theorists and historians … Continue reading →

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