Category Archives: Writing

Mary Beard on more footnotes

Posted on September 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Mary Beard follows up her previous column on footnotes (previously linked to) with another good discussion. Anyone who has read past p. 330 in The Birth of Territory will appreciate why I liked these two posts.

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Earth, Terricide, Geo-metrics

Posted on September 5, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve now nearly finished writing my keynote lecture for the Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance workshop at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (September 19-20). The title is “Geo-metrics” (abstract here). This is the third in a sequence of … Continue reading →

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Mary Beard on ‘the damn footnotes’

Posted on August 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Mary Beard has a good discussion of footnotes in her TLS column. Here’s the beginning: I know what I like, and don’t like, in a footnote: an accurate and precise reference to what ever is being discussed (I mean not a … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – third update

Posted on August 9, 2013 by stuartelden

See first and second updates for background to the book I’m writing (and the brief prospectus here). Recent progress has been slower than I’d have liked, as I’m in the middle of moving home and office. Ideally I would now … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – second update

Posted on July 29, 2013 by stuartelden

Over the last week I did some further work on the timeline I mentioned in the last update. I’m finding this really useful already. In particular I used the bibliography of English translations compiled by Richard Lynch (also in A Companion … Continue reading →

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Academic writing

Posted on July 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Some advice in the Times Higher Education.

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In defence of edited collections

Posted on July 23, 2013 by stuartelden

At the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog, three people offer defences of edited collections.

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Foucault’s Last Decade – initial work

Posted on July 22, 2013 by stuartelden

I thought I’d begin writing something each week or so on what I’ve done on this project. I know that this book is going to take some time to come together, and that I may need to set it aside … Continue reading →

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Advice for PhD Students

Posted on July 1, 2013 by stuartelden

Nick Hopwood has some interesting advice for PhD students – though the title is needlessly provocative.

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Learn to Write Badly

Posted on June 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Michael Billig offers some cautionary advice – Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences. Modern academia is increasingly competitive yet the writing style of social scientists is routinely poor and continues to deteriorate. Are social science … Continue reading →

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