Category Archives: Writing

Talking about Publishing, Urban Territory, and lots else

Posted on May 16, 2014 by stuartelden

I was involved in three events this week. The first was the most wide-ranging – a filmed conversation with Babette Babich at Fordham University, that ranged from contemporary territorial issues to Kant, Leibniz, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Lefebvre; Greek geography to … Continue reading →

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Five apps I find really useful for my writing and blogging

Posted on May 13, 2014 by stuartelden

Five apps I find really useful – Evernote – Dropbox – Sanebox – Feedly – WasteNoTime Evernote – I use this as my main repository for notes, links, lists, etc. I appreciate that you can clip websites directly to it, or email things to a direct address. As … Continue reading →

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Rob Kitchin – Writing for impact: how to craft papers that will be cited

Posted on April 24, 2014 by stuartelden

An interesting piece by Rob Kitchin about writing and publishing. For the past few years I’ve co-taught a professional development course for doctoral students on completing a thesis, getting a job, and publishing.  The course draws liberally on a book … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare’s annotated dictionary?

Posted on April 22, 2014 by stuartelden

An interesting story from the Folger Shakespeare Library about the claimed discovery of Shakespeare’s dictionary – an annotated copy of John Baret’s Alvearie. The claim is not just that Shakespeare used the dictionary, which is well-known, but that this was his personal copy. … Continue reading →

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The 24 hour Schedules of Writers, Composers and others – interesting graphical representations

Posted on April 3, 2014 by stuartelden

The Huffington Post links to some interesting graphical representations of 24 hours in the life of creative figures – Beethoven, Balzac, Flaubert, Mozart, etc. Very male and white, but interesting nonetheless. The full diagram is here.  

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David Farrell Krell on reading, translating and citing

Posted on March 16, 2014 by stuartelden

A note in one of David Farrell Krell’s books: I will cite Derrida’s texts throughout the book by a code letter (here, G), with the page numbers of the French and English editions. I have not used the available translations … Continue reading →

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Bradley Garrett interview on writing and publishing his book Explore Everything

Posted on March 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Very interesting interview with Bradley Garrett on writing and publishing his book Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City.

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Two useful pieces on writing dissertations and publishing books

Posted on March 9, 2014 by stuartelden

In The Chronicle on writing a dissertation/thesis. In The Times Higher on publishing a book.

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Foucault’s Last Decade – ninth update

Posted on February 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve worked through the first volume of the History of Sexuality, in both French and English. There are, to my mind, not nearly as many translational issues with this as with Surveiller et punir/Discipline … Continue reading →

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Creating a writing space – #whereiwrite

Posted on February 23, 2014 by stuartelden

There is an interesting piece at chroniclevitae about creating a space for writing, and continued at #whereiwrite. I have a great home study, which is where I do most of my writing – this is a picture of the last … Continue reading →

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