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Research hacks intermezzo: A cornucopia of writing and publishing advice from Stuart Elden – Christopher Watkin

Posted on April 11, 2017 by stuartelden

Research hacks intermezzo: A cornucopia of writing and publishing advice from Stuart Elden – Christopher Watkin links to my list of writing and publishing posts, and picks some of his favourites. This is part of his series of Research Hacks … Continue reading →

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Interview with Mark Kelly on Foucault and Biopolitical Imperialism

Posted on April 11, 2017 by stuartelden

Fully Automated Episode 2: Biopolitical Imperialism with Mark G.E. Kelly Our guest this week is Mark G. E. Kelly, an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. He is the author of The … Continue reading →

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The textual issues around Foucault’s ‘What is an Author?’

Posted on April 11, 2017 by stuartelden

While it is somewhat outside the time period I am currently working on, Foucault’s ‘What is an Author?’ lecture is interesting because it is one of the few instances for which there is a textual record of an engagement between … Continue reading →

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It seems Jacques Lacan struggled to get his students to do the reading too…

Posted on April 10, 2017 by stuartelden

Last time I wanted to give you an initial insight into the meaning of the question – what happens beyond the pleasure principle? My great friend Jean Hyppolite, who isn’t here today because he is in Germany, told me he … Continue reading →

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Unpaywall – a Chrome and Firefox plugin to find open access versions of articles

Posted on April 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Unpaywall is a new Chrome and Firefox plugin to find open access versions of articles. If you go to a journal article webpage with this installed, then it will give you a green logo on the right side of your browser if … Continue reading →

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Five apps I find really useful for my writing and blogging

Posted on April 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Five apps I find really useful – Evernote – Dropbox – Sanebox – Feedly – WasteNoTime Evernote – I use this as my main repository for notes, links, lists, etc. I appreciate that you can clip websites directly to it, or email things…

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Christopher Watkin’s research hacks #10, 11 and 12

Posted on April 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Christopher Watkin’s Research Hacks series continues. #10: How to present a smart, well-crafted argument #11: Let your arguments breathe #12: Seven ways of keeping up to date with developments in your field The whole series is useful, but #12 has some … Continue reading →

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The pace of academic life is not the problem—the lack of autonomy is – LSE Impact Blog

Posted on April 7, 2017 by stuartelden

The pace of academic life is not the problem—the lack of autonomy is – LSE Impact Blog To many disgruntled with the quantification of scholarship, its impossible demands and meaningless metrics, it is the heightened pace of academic life that … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lacan, Freud and Earth, Tree and Traffic from the Object Lessons series

Posted on April 5, 2017 by stuartelden

Second-hand copies of Lacan’s Ecrits (the old Sheridan translation) and Freud’s Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious; along with Earth, Tree and Traffic from Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series, sent by the publisher. Earth looks especially interesting – not just … Continue reading →

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Lecture on Khôra, Place, and Metaphysics

Posted on April 5, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Here is an audio of my keynote at the University of Windsor this past weekend. I had a wonderful reception (actually that’s a key term I take up), and I should say…

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