The new urban question – A conversation on the legacy of Bernardo Secchi with Paola Pellegrini

Posted on December 16, 2014 by stuartelden

very interesting discussion at the Society and Space open site.

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Barry, Andrew 2013 “Material Politics: Disputes Along the Pipeline” reviewed by Kai Bosworth

Posted on December 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Andrew Barry’s new book reviewed at Society and Space open site.

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JUCS 1.3 content list

Posted on December 15, 2014 by stuartelden

new issue of Journal of Urban Cultural Studies published.

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Pleased to announce that Issue 1.3 (2014) of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is in final production, content below:

EDITORIAL

Inaugural editorial: Urban cultural studies – a manifesto (part 2)

RESEARCH ARTICLES

The worst tourists in the world: Gangsters, heterotopia and the space of global capital In Bruges

Alternative sprawls, junkcities: Buenos Aires Libre and horizontal urban epistemologies

‘Alas, alas. House, oh house!’: The collapse of the Cologne City archive

Spaces for reading, a cartography of used books in urban Latin America

Urban tellurics in Barcelona: Between a Heideggerian rock and a postmodern swimming pool

SHORT-FORM ARTICLES

Geographies of street art: Shepard Fairey and the trans-scalar imagination

Bodies and sculptures: Moving mountains

‘Psychogeography of the Boundary’: An author interview with Eric Hazan

Sydney’s Chinatown/Chinese cities

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The objects that surround our writing – Devin Shaw on his desk, study and working practices

Posted on December 10, 2014 by stuartelden

A nice post by Devin Shaw at The Notes Taken about the books, papers and other objects surrounding him as he completes a book manuscript.

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Verso 2014 – Selected highlights, from Arundhati Roy to Slavoj Žižek in a free Ebook

Posted on December 10, 2014 by stuartelden

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Verso 2014: Free Ebook Collection, edited by Verso Books

Selected highlights, from Arundhati Roy to Slavoj Žižek

We bring you a compilation of our most exciting reading from 2014, with contributions from leading radical names – brought together for the first time in this ebook collection, and available for FREE download!

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Volume 32, Issue 6 now out

Posted on December 10, 2014 by stuartelden

New issue of Society and Space out – lots of very interesting papers in here.

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Books received – White on Genet and Voeltzel, Vingt ans et après

Posted on December 10, 2014 by stuartelden

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Edmund White’s biography of Genet, and Thierry Voeltzel, Vingt ans et après – a collection of dialogues with (an anonymous) Foucault (see Foucault News for details).

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Luce Irigaray Circle Conference: Topologies of Sexual Difference – Melbourne – 10-12 Dec 2014

Posted on December 9, 2014 by stuartelden

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Luce Irigaray Circle Conference, Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday 10 to Friday 12 December 2014

The Communication, Politics and Culture Research Centre at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, with the support of the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, will host an interdisciplinary conference inspired by Luce Irigaray and her thinking of sexual difference. This will be the seventh meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle. The overall theme for the conference will be “Topologies of Sexual Difference.”

More details here, via Continental Philosophy.

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Foucault audio and video recordings – a chronological list with links

Posted on December 9, 2014 by stuartelden

foucaultLast year I listed all the Foucault audio recordings I could find online. I’ve now updated the list, and reordered them chronologically.

These are now all listed on this page (as part of the ‘Foucault Resources‘ part of this site).

There are a few bits of missing information, and there may well be others available online that I’ve missed. Updates, corrections or additions welcome.

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Richard Polt and Gregory Fried in conversation with Thomas Sheehan about Heidegger

Posted on December 9, 2014 by stuartelden

178348120X14-230x345Richard Polt and Gregory Fried in conversation with Thomas Sheehan at 3am (via Enowning). The discussion is around the reading proposed in Sheehan’s new book, but it also touches on Heidegger’s politics and the revelations of the ‘black notebooks’.

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