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Daniel McCormack, Some Lesser-Known Truths About Academe

Posted on May 9, 2017 by stuartelden

Daniel McCormack, ‘Some Lesser-Known Truths About Academe‘ in The Chronicle of Higher Education. While this is a US focused piece, there is still much in here to consider for people in, or considering a career in higher education elsewhere. The … Continue reading →

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Three potential starting points for reading Thomas Pynchon

Posted on May 9, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
Today is Pynchon in Public Day, so here are three books that I think may make good entry points for those interested in, but perhaps unnecessarily daunted by, Thomas Pynchon. My intuition is that many readers’…

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Mary Beard – How long can it take to write a paragraph?

Posted on May 9, 2017 by stuartelden

Mary Beard – How long can it take to write a paragraph? in the TLS. Answer: in my case recently about three days, or — more accurately — about three days of repeatedly getting a few lines down on the screen, then … Continue reading →

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Here Be Monsters: A Punctum Publishing Primer – Eileen Joy on the current state of academic publishing

Posted on May 9, 2017 by stuartelden

Here Be Monsters: A Punctum Publishing Primer – Eileen Joy on the current state of academic publishing. Much to think about here. punctum doesn’t publish books for your grandmother’s tenure and promotion committee, which somehow, through a strange process of … Continue reading →

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‘The Rise of Forensic Architecture’ – profile of Eyal Weizman and the agency in Architect magazine

Posted on May 5, 2017 by stuartelden

‘The Rise of Forensic Architecture‘ – a fascinating  profile of Eyal Weizman and the agency in Architect magazine. Eyal’s book Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability is now available from MIT Press.

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Call for applications – Summer School for Critical Palestine/ Israel Studies, Haifa, August 2017

Posted on May 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Mada El Carmel, a Palestinian research institute located in Haifa, is organizing a summer school that is supported by the Antipode Foundation. Full details can be found here: http://mada-research.org/en/2017/04/20/mada-summer-school-critical-palestine-israel-studies-august-2017/ Mada Summer School for Critical Palestine/ Israel Studies, Haifa, August 2017 Palestine/Israel … Continue reading →

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9 Critical Theory books that came out in April

Posted on May 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Useful roundup as ever – Deutscher, de Angelis, Lambert, Schmidt, DeLanda and Harman et. al.

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Giorgio Agamben, The Omnibus Homo Sacer – forthcoming in July from Stanford University Press

Posted on May 4, 2017 by stuartelden

I’d seen a French translation of this, and so was wondering if there would be an English version, and here it is: Giorgio Agamben, The Omnibus Homo Sacer – forthcoming in July from Stanford University Press. 1336 pages, bringing together all … Continue reading →

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Territory – The Map is Not…

Posted on May 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Thanks to dmf for pointing me to this intriguing project: Territory – themapisnot.com Territory is a literary project about territories and the maps that will always fail to capture them. It’s about the naive dream of objectivity, and how we use … Continue reading →

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Another critique of academia.edu – at Diggit Magazine

Posted on May 2, 2017 by stuartelden

Another critique of academia.edu – ‘The end of Academia.edu: how business takes over, again‘ at Diggit Magazine. See also my post from earlier this year ‘Delete your academia.edu account… (there are other ways to share your work)‘ and the comments to … Continue reading →

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