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Books received – Sullivan, Rogers, Foucault companion, journals

Posted on November 16, 2016 by stuartelden

. A copy of Garrett Sullivan Jr’s classic The Drama of Landscape, kindly sent by Garrett. I use this extensively in my work on Shakespeare. Dallas Rogers also sent a copy of his new book The Geopolitics of Real Estate, … Continue reading →

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Promoted from doctor to professor: what changes?

Posted on November 14, 2016 by stuartelden

Promoted from doctor to professor: what changes? – various people, including my ex-Durham colleague Harriet Bulkeley, give their take on this in The Times Higher Education.

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Society and Space book series – first two volumes by Bulley and Klauser out soon

Posted on November 14, 2016 by stuartelden

Over the past several years I’ve been working with Sage on a Society and Space book series, which is linked to the Environment and Planning D: Society and Space journal (now published by Sage). There are several books under contract or … Continue reading →

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Volumetric Urbanism: Charting New Urban Divisions, Sheffield, 24-25 May 2017

Posted on November 14, 2016 by stuartelden

VOLUMETRIC URBANISM: Charting new urban divisions [pdf] An International Workshop University of Sheffield and University of Western Sydney Sheffield, United Kingdom, 24-26th May 2017. Organisers: Simon Marvin, Urban Institute, Rowland Atkinson, Inclusive Societies at the University of Sheffield and Donald McNeill … Continue reading →

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A response to the publishing advice from yesterday from David Enoch

Posted on November 11, 2016 by stuartelden

A few people didn’t like the publishing advice I linked to yesterday, so here’s a response from the same blog, the Daily Nous, from David Enoch. But do look at the comments to the original post, where Jason Brennan responds … Continue reading →

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Endorsements for Foucault: The Birth of Power from Caren Kaplan and Bernard Harcourt

Posted on November 11, 2016 by stuartelden

Two very generous endorsements for my next book Foucault: The Birth of Power, due out in early 2017. ‘Foucault: The Birth of Power opens an illuminating window into the process of political awakening and philosophical transformation as intellectual history. Drawing … Continue reading →

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New Historical Materialism website

Posted on November 11, 2016 by stuartelden

New Historical Materialism website – looks good.

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A great comment from a university press editor on publishing

Posted on November 10, 2016 by stuartelden

A great comment to Productive in Publishing (guest post by Jason Brennan) at the Daily Nous. Matt McAdam ·November 10, 2016 at 1:39 pm I think this is all very good advice, and I also think those who find it … Continue reading →

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Some of the best advice I’ve read on being productive in publishing

Posted on November 10, 2016 by stuartelden

Productive in Publishing (guest post by Jason Brennan) at the Daily Nous. Read the whole thing – it’s an outline, not a full article. But here are some especially good points: 1b: Publishing is not the price of being an … Continue reading →

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When did Foucault translate Leo Spitzer?

Posted on November 10, 2016 by stuartelden

One of the few translations made by Michel Foucault, and perhaps the most unusual, was an essay by literary theorist Leo Spitzer. It was published as “Arts du langage et linguistique”, in Leo Spitzer, Etudes de style, Paris: Gallimard, 1970, pp. 45-78. (There are … Continue reading →

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