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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// Bodies on the Targetting Line: Trying to Make Sense of Human Shields

Posted on April 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Funambulist:
Rachel Corrie confronting a Israeli army bulldozer before being killed by it (March 13, 2003) A few months ago, I learned that Judith Butler was going to give a lecture at the London School of Economics and…

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Georgina Born, “Anthropology, Digital Music and the Contemporary”, British Academy lecture, 19 May 2015

Posted on April 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Georgina Born, Radcliffe-Brown lecture in Anthropology, British Academy, 19 May 2015, 6pm

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The Function of Criticism at the Present Time – on the work of Lauren Berlant

Posted on April 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Interesting piece in the LA Review of Books, “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time“, which looks at the work of Lauren Berlant. Berlant will be giving the Society and Space lecture at the Association of American Geographers meeting … Continue reading →

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Kelly Oliver, Earth and World: Philosophy after the Apollo Missions

Posted on April 13, 2015 by stuartelden

Kelly Oliver, Earth and World: Philosophy after the Apollo Missions – thanks to John Protevi for the link. Critically engaging the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida together with her own observations on contemporary politics, … Continue reading →

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Top posts this week on Progressive Geographies

Posted on April 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Terry Eagleton, The Slow Death of the University Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy – forthcoming in 2016 from Verso with introduction by Stuart Elden Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution Heidegger, National Socialism and the editing of the Gesamtausgabe Call … Continue reading →

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Forgiving Foucault and Defining Neoliberalism

Posted on April 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on sanshistory:
“Economics is therefore not the analysis of processes; it is the analysis of an activity. So it is no longer the analysis of the historical logic of processes; it is the analysis of internal rationality, the…

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Lively Infrastructures -Ash Amin

Posted on April 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeZervZXxwA

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Marijn Nieuwenhuis: Spatial Sensitivity, Terrestrial Fixity and China’s Territory

Posted on April 11, 2015 by stuartelden

A bit late linking to this, but there is an interesting interview with my Warwick colleague Marijn Nieuwenhuis in the ‘Geopolitical Passport’ series at Exploring Geopolitics.

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Lauren Berlant Society and Space lecture at the AAG

Posted on April 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Final details of the Society and Space lecture at the AAG meeting in Chicago.

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Foucault and ancient polizei: a genealogy of the military pastorate (2015)

Posted on April 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Kevin Scott Jobe, Foucault and ancient polizei: a genealogy of the military pastorate, Journal of Political Power, Vol. 8, No. 1, 21, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2015.1011378 Full PDF here Abstract While Foucault claimed that biopower, as a…

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