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Latour: War & Peace in Time of Ecological Conflicts

Posted on February 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8rvoo2Gw7o LSE lecture: Although it is still useful to insist on the distinction between science and politics, the scale and importance of ecological mutations make it more and more difficult to use it effectively. The problem…

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(Bad) Evacuation: moving, naming, killing

Posted on February 21, 2014 by stuartelden

Pete Adey discusses his new project on Evacuation at the Royal Holloway Geopolitics and Security blog.

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Braverman, Irus 2013 “Zooland: The Institution of Captivity” reviewed by Franklin Ginn

Posted on February 21, 2014 by stuartelden

Zooland reviewed at the Society and Space open site.

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Benjamin Reiss on Sleep’s Hidden Histories

Posted on February 19, 2014 by stuartelden

Interesting review essay of three books on sleep by Benjamin Reiss at the LA review of Books. The books reviewed are Alan Derickson’s Dangerously Sleepy; Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s The Slumbering Masses;  and Jonathan Crary’s 24/7…

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Measurement, Circulation & Possibility (some notes for a forthcoming talk)

Posted on February 19, 2014 by stuartelden

David Beer shares some notes for a forthcoming talks – which draws on Foucault, Amoore, Brennner/Peck/Theodore, Ajana and Elden, among others. Sounds interesting, and hopefully a written version will follow.

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What does a surveillance state look like?

Posted on February 18, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Understanding Empire: Technology, Power, Politics:
Traver Paglen has released these birds-eye photos of the NSA (National Security Agency, the “signals” intelligence organization, $10.8 billion dollar budget), the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office – in control of U.S. satellites,…

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Nick Beech, Mónica Moreno Figueroa & Les Back on Stuart Hall

Posted on February 18, 2014 by stuartelden

New TCS board member David Beer links to three more TCS tributes to Stuart Hall. I’ve added these – and a few more – to this list https://progressivegeographies.com/2014/02/10/stuart-hall-obituaries-and-tributes/

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PhDs in Geopolitics, Cyber Security and Society @ RHUL

Posted on February 15, 2014 by stuartelden

PhD studentships at Royal Holloway.

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Kittler on data and surveillance (a new translation)

Posted on February 14, 2014 by stuartelden

Kittler translated and discussed on the TCS open site.

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Power, Knowledge, Self-Reference: Guattari’s Triad

Posted on February 13, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
“Machines,” wrote Gilles Deleuze in his examination of Foucault’s thought, “are always social before being technical. Or, rather, there is a human technology before which exists before a material technology.”i With this simple statement, the…

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