David Harvey lecture series in NYC – Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History

Posted on August 31, 2016 by stuartelden

David Harvey lecture series in New York – Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History. Free and open to the public.

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An open access virtual issue for the 2016 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture, AbdouMaliq Simone’s “Provisioning the Provisional: Ensemble Work in Yangon”

Posted on August 31, 2016 by stuartelden

An open access virtual issue linked to the 2016 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture, by AbdouMaliq Simone.

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The 2016 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture

Provisioning the Provisional: Ensemble Work in Yangon

AbdouMaliq Simone

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

Göttingen, Germany

How do lives reach each other, what do they want or need from all the different instantiations of living? How much do particular enactments of living really need to engage all those others taking place in the larger surrounds; how much do they simply need to know that specific ways of doing things are there, somewhere, without necessarily needing to interact with them? When interaction is necessary, how much has to be conceded and recalibrated? In cities where thousands upon thousands of things are going on simultaneously at any given time, how do particular lives know what it is exactly that is relevant to them, that poses serious implications for who they think they are or what they want to be? How far…

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Early Modern Literary Geographies – 14-15 October 2016

Posted on August 30, 2016 by stuartelden

Early Modern Literary Geographies, Huntington library, San Marino, CA, 14-15 October 2016 –  details here or download the programme brochure

The conference is organised around the themes of Body, House, Neighbourhood, and Region. I’ll be speaking in the last of these on “Denmark, Norway, Poland: Regional Geopolitics in Hamlet”. This is part of what I hope will be chapter 2 of my Shakespeare book.

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Books received – Marshall, Shakespeare, O’Lear & Dalby, Mitchell, Harvey

Posted on August 30, 2016 by stuartelden

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Back from holiday, a mix of recently received books. The Routledge ones are in recompense for review work, as is Shakespeare and Space. The others were picked up second-hand for various projects.

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Repo, Jemima 2016 The Biopolitics of Gender, reviewed by Martina Tazzioli

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Angharad Closs Stephens – National Atmospheres and the ‘Brexit’ Revolt

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Seminar: Tool-boxes and rolling marbles: The far-flung applications of Michel Foucault’s work (2016)

Posted on August 30, 2016 by stuartelden

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Clare O’Farrell, Tool-boxes and rolling marbles: The far-flung applications of Michel Foucault’s work (2016)

Date: Tuesday, 30th August 2016, 11:30am-1:00pm
Location:
A Block, Level 3, Conference Room 330
QUT, Kelvin Grove Campus
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Entry is free but please register with Eventbrite by Monday, 29th August 5:00pm

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This paper was originally delivered as a keynote presentation to the Foucault @ 90 conference at Ayr in Scotland in June 2016.

Foucault famously said he was writing for users, not readers. He wanted his books to function as tooI-boxes to be deployed in the most applied of areas – he specifically names educators, magistrates, wardens, and conscientious objectors for instance. He also imagined his books as ‘rolling marbles’ that could be picked up and then sent elsewhere. Some 40 years after Foucault expressed these sentiments about his work, he has become the most cited theorist in the social sciences…

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Who Wrote Shakespeare? – Martin Wiggins on collaboration at the BBC website

Posted on August 30, 2016 by stuartelden

p0451wyzWho Wrote Shakespeare? – Martin Wiggins at the BBC website. The discussion is not of the para-academic debate about whether William Shakespeare wrote the plays that bear his name, but rather about the collaborative nature of some of them – some of which are canonical, and some of which are disputed. Some good introductory discussion, a handy image of the plays and likely authors, and some good video clips of passages from some plays.

I’m well aware that much of this is contested, having worked on several of the plays which are thought to be collaborative for my Shakespeare project. But for a wide audience, this is a clear and useful summary.

The ‘Hand D’ manuscript of a addition to Sir Thomas More, believed to be by Shakespeare is currently on display at the British Library, in their superb ‘Shakespeare in Ten Acts‘ exhibition. There is much else of interest in that exhibition, but for me the manuscript was worth it alone. It’s open for about a week more.

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Finishing with Foucault, working on Shakespeare and now a holiday

Posted on August 17, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve now finished work on Foucault: The Birth of Power – the corrections to the proofs have been sent off. In the past several weeks I’ve been working hard on Shakespeare, and have got several chapters into draft state. I’m going to have to take a break from this work in the autumn-winter, with teaching and several talks on different topics, so I’d like to get this manuscript to a point where I can leave it without too many loose ends. This doesn’t mean it’s nearly finished, indeed far from it, but I want it to be at a point where I can put it aside and return, at some point, with fresh eyes and hopefully new energy and ideas.

I’ve put a new page on this site with more information on the Shakespeare project. This supersedes the older page, and more accurately reflects the current shape of it.

Foucault: The Birth of Power is now available to pre-order from Polity’s distributor, Wiley, as well as online bookstores. It is currently projected for February publication. The cover isn’t yet up, but the book’s description is.

Now for a holiday.

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Books and journals received – Shaw, Italiano, Hall, Dixon, Braverman

Posted on August 17, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile each of books and journals, recently received. The books are mainly the second instalment of ones in recompense for review work, along with Ian Shaw’s Predator Empire, sent by the publisher.

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