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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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Léopold Lambert and Michael Woods’s keynotes from Warwick Political Spaces workshop (audio)

Posted on June 14, 2016 by stuartelden

Léopold Lambert and Michael Woods’s keynotes from Warwick Political Spaces workshop (audio) – via Warwick Political Geography. Update: a few images from the first of these lectures are here.

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Review essay on Axelos. An Introduction to Future Ways of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger by Cameron Duncan

Posted on June 14, 2016 by stuartelden

Review essay on Kostas Axelos, An Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger by Cameron Duncan in PhaenEx. Both the essay and the book are available open access. Here’s one key paragraph from the review. Though not well-known … Continue reading →

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The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault (2016)

Posted on June 13, 2016 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Dotan Leshem, The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault, Columbia University Press, 2016 Dotan Leshem recasts the history of the West from an economic perspective, bringing politics, philosophy, and economics closer…

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