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Echoes of Cologne [Forum], Introduction by Angela Last

Posted on June 28, 2016 by stuartelden

The first few pieces of a Society and Space open site forum on the Cologne assaults of New Year’s Eve are now available.

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Michel Foucault, Prisons and the future of abolition – an interview at Critical Theory

Posted on June 26, 2016 by stuartelden

At Critical-Theory.com, there is an interesting interview with Andrew Dilts and Perry Zurn about Foucault, the Prisons Information Group and the future of prisons and abolition. It builds on the work of their edited book Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons … Continue reading →

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Books received – three Marxist classics from Verso: Lefebvre, Althusser et. al. and Goldmann

Posted on June 25, 2016 by stuartelden

Books received – three Marxist classics from Verso. Henri Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy, the first complete English translation of Althusser, Balibar, Establet, Macherey and Rancière’s Reading Capital and Lucien Goldmann’s The Hidden God. Metaphilosophy is a book I’ve wanted to get translated into English for … Continue reading →

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A dark day for the UK – my early thoughts on the EU referendum

Posted on June 24, 2016 by stuartelden

Yet again I find myself in a minority in a national vote. It was hard to take in the past – 1992, 2010, 2015 – but with those there was always the hope for the future. Now it is hard … Continue reading →

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“Sur les Toits”: An open-access Antipode Symposium on the Prison Protests in Early 1970s France

Posted on June 23, 2016 by stuartelden

“Sur les Toits”: An open-access Antipode Symposium on the Prison Protests in Early 1970s France This symposium contains a rich collection of contributions based on the screening of the French documentary film Sur les Toits (“On the Roofs”). On a Wednesday in May … Continue reading →

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Saba Mahmood 2016 AAG Society and Space lecture video

Posted on June 22, 2016 by stuartelden

From the Society and Space open site: Professor Saba Mahmood (University of California, Berkeley) delivered the Society and Space plenary lecture at the Association of American Geographers meeting on March 31, 2016. A video of her excellent talk, titled “Secularism, … Continue reading →

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Migration, Borders, Territory – a commentary on the EU referendum

Posted on June 21, 2016 by stuartelden

A few weeks ago I was asked by the Architectural Association to write a commentary on the UK’s EU referendum. The request was for a short piece on how the vote might impact on territory. It was written in late … Continue reading →

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Tim Ingold, ‘Reclaiming the University of Aberdeen’

Posted on June 20, 2016 by stuartelden

A powerful piece by Tim Ingold, ‘Reclaiming the University of Aberdeen’: We, staff and students of the University of Aberdeen, are angry. We are angry about the way our academic community and our commitment to education and scholarship have been … Continue reading →

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Why do so many academics publish in unreadable outlets?

Posted on June 20, 2016 by stuartelden

Why do so many academics publish in unreadable outlets? I don’t mean the prose style is unreadable (though it might be), but I’m thinking of the outlets they chose to publish in. Obviously, I recognise that the ‘gold standard’ for … Continue reading →

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Second English volume of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks forthcoming

Posted on June 14, 2016 by stuartelden

Martin Heidegger, Ponderings VII–XI: Black Notebooks 1938–1939, translated by Richard Rojcewicz, forthcoming in early 2017. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the tip. Through these broad and sprawling notebooks, Heidegger offers fascinating opinions on Holderlin, Nietzsche, Wagner, Wittgenstein, Pascal, and many others. … Continue reading →

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