Derek Gregory’s ‘Reach from the Sky’ Tanner lectures

Posted on January 19, 2016 by stuartelden

bioconvergence-and-the-bomber-crew-001Last week I took the short trip from London to Cambridge to attend Derek Gregory’s Tanner lectures – ‘Reach from the sky: aerial violence and the everywhere war’. The lectures covered a lot, from early aircraft to the Second World War, to Vietnam, Iraq and Gaza, and today’s drone warfare.

He delivered the two lectures on the first evening, and then on the second evening there was a discussion with Grégoire Chamayou, Jochen von Bernstorff and Chris Woods which I unfortunately couldn’t attend. All of this was filmed, and will be available online. I’ll share a link when available. And it will of course all be written up and published.

In the meantime, he has shared his own thoughts and many of the striking images on his Geographical Imaginations site.

He has also shared the videos from the ‘Through Post-Atomic Eyes‘ conference from October 2015 on YouTube, including his “Little Boys and Blue Skies: drones through post-atomic eyes“. More details here.

Update: Alex Jeffrey discusses the lectures here.

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Foucault and the Politics of Health: Collaborative research and activism – audio recording of UCL talk

Posted on January 18, 2016 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk of 12 January 2016 to the Geography Department seminar, University College London is now available here. The introduction is by Tariq Jazeel.

“Foucault and the Politics of Health – Collaborative research and activism”

Concentrating on the early 1970s, this talk will discuss Foucault’s research and activist work concerning the politics of health. This is in three registers – the research in his Collège de France seminar; his work with Félix Guattari’s CERFI group; and his role in the activist organisation Groupe Information Santé. The sources for tracing his work in these areas are uncollected, sometimes anonymous, and often unpublished. The talk will draw on published reports and pamphlets, news sources, and material archived in Paris and Normandy.

The talk drew extensively on the work in Chapter Five of Foucault: The Birth of Power, but also discussed the various sources I’ve been using for my overall research on Foucault. There is some overlap with the talk I gave at the LSE late last year, but the specific focus on health and in particular the discussion of the Groupe Information Santé is new.

The LSE talk and other recordings are available here. For bibliographical details of the academic collaborative research work, see here; on the GIS here.

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with Tariq Jazeel, photo by Andy Fugard

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on January 17, 2016 by stuartelden
  1. Appeal by Sartre, Foucault, Guattari, Deleuze and others on imprisonment of Italian intellectuals, 1977
  2. Red Notes, Italy 1977-8: ‘Living with an Earthquake’ – entire pamphlet online
  3. Academic Books of 2015 – my top twenty
  4. Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview from 1979
  5. Foucault – uncollected notes, lectures and interviews
  6. Discussion of Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis
  7. Raul Pacheco-Vega on writing and working spaces
  8. Society and Space Editorial team changes
  9. David Bowie – space on the shelf for Blackstar, but a very big hole…
  10. Books received – several more for the Foucault work, including the new Œuvres
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David Harvey, The Ways of the World – now published (and in paperback), and open access extract

Posted on January 17, 2016 by stuartelden

9781781255315_26David Harvey, The Ways of the World is now published, and an open access extract is available here.

This book presents a sequence of landmark works in David Harvey’s intellectual journey over five decades. It shows how experiencing the riots, despair and injustice of 1970s Baltimore led him to seek an explanation of capitalist inequalities via Marx and to a sustained intellectual engagement that has made him the world’s leading exponent of Marx’s work. The book takes the reader through the development of his unique synthesis of Marxist method and geographical understanding that has allowed him to develop a series of powerful insights into the ways of the world, from the new mechanics of imperialism, crises in financial markets and the effectiveness of car strikers in Oxford, to the links between nature and change, why Sacré Coeur was built in Paris, and the meaning of the postmodern condition. David Harvey is renowned for originality, acumen and the transformative value of his insights. This book shows why.
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The editorial process at Contemporary Political Theory

Posted on January 17, 2016 by stuartelden

CPTA very interesting and detailed discussion of the editorial process at Contemporary Political Theory, by Samuel Chambers (open access).

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Mapping Post-Capitalism

Posted on January 16, 2016 by stuartelden

Some interesting representations of post-capitalism – follow the link to read more about them.

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http://commonstransition.org/mapping-the-emerging-post-capitalist-paradigm-and-its-main-thinkers/

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CfP RGS 2016: Ice, water, rock, sand, and silt: ‘Unearthing’ a Subterranean Geopolitics

Posted on January 16, 2016 by stuartelden

Call for papers for the RGS-IBG on Subterranean Geopolitics

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Books received – several more for the Foucault work, including the new Œuvres

Posted on January 15, 2016 by stuartelden

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Several books for the Foucault project, most picked up second-hand and relating to the work of the Groupe d’information sur les prisons, but also the new Œuvres and the Vrin edition of the Kant introduction along with Foucault’s translation of the text.

On an initial look, Œuvres, despite its cost, is invaluable. The two volumes comprise over 3300 pages, and it includes all Foucault’s authored books except for Maladie mentale et personnalité, Maladie mentale et psychologie and Le Désordre des familles. There are also a few shorter pieces, but none of the lecture courses. It is a critical edition, and includes, for example, the key variants between the first and second edition of Naissance de la clinique. Foucault’s notes to texts appear as footnotes, and there are a lot of editor notes to each text, as well as brief introductions, which also discuss the composition of texts. The editors have also used materials archived at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, including boxes of material which do not yet appear in the catalogue.

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Journals received – TCS, Transactions, GeoHumanities, Annals, RP

Posted on January 15, 2016 by stuartelden

Journals received – Theory, Culture and Society annual review, Transactions of the IBG, the new journal GeoHumanities launch issue, Annals of the AAG, Radical Philosophy.

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Raul Pacheco-Vega on writing and working spaces

Posted on January 15, 2016 by stuartelden

15261015115_e3dd954a6b.jpgRaul Pacheco-Vega has an interesting post on writing and working spaces. The idea of dividing spaces between writing and other work duties makes sense, as you can associate being in a location with productive work, but the 4/4.30am start sounds brutal…

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