Thomas Meyer on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks

Posted on May 20, 2014 by stuartelden

Martin_Heidegger_for_WPThis is one of the better pieces I’ve read recently on Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’. In particular, it is good on how they fit within the structure of Heidegger’s thought as a whole, and especially his plans for posthumous publication. As Meyer notes, Heidegger planned this at a very young age – in his late 40s…

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Peter Sloterdijk’s Globes: Spheres II forthcoming in October 2014

Posted on May 20, 2014 by stuartelden

Unknown Peter Sloterdijk’s Globes – Spheres II: Macrospherology listed on Amazon. It’s not on the Semiotext(e) page yet, but is on the MIT Press page (they distribute the books). It will be published in October 2014, and comes in at 1048 pages. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for spotting this.

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Antipode Foundation International Workshop Awards 2014 – the results

Posted on May 19, 2014 by stuartelden

Antipode Foundation International Workshop Awards announced – good to see some of my Society and Space colleagues among the recipients.

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Last week we announced the winners of 2014’s Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project Awards, and today we can reveal the recipients of our International Workshop Awards.

International Workshop Awards are intended to support radical geographers holding events (including conferences, workshops, seminar series, summer schools and action research meetings) that further radical analyses of geographical issues and engender the development of a new and better society. The Antipode Foundation encourages applications that are collaborative in nature: we want to fund work that leads to the exchange of ideas across disciplinary boundaries, countries and sectors, and to the building of relationships and productive partnerships.

We encourage participation and engagement, cooperation and co-enquiry, whether with fellow scholars, research groups, university departments, NGOs, think tanks or social movements. The Foundation also encourages initiatives that are adventurous, that explore the boundaries of established academic practice, and that trespass and disrupt disciplinary borders. We’d like to…

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Dalton and Thatcher commentary – “What does a critical data studies look like, and why do we care?”

Posted on May 19, 2014 by stuartelden

A commentary on big data and critical data studies at the Society and Space open site.

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Nelson, Alondra 2013 “Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination” reviewed by Angela Last

Posted on May 19, 2014 by stuartelden

A new review at the Society and Space open site – Alondra Nelson’s Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination.

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Peter Sloterdijk and Andrei Ujica on The Fall of the Romanov Empire

Posted on May 18, 2014 by stuartelden

A lecture by Peter Sloterdijk and then a discussion between Sloterdijk and Andrei Ujica on The Fall of the Romanov Empire – thanks to ANTHEM for the link. The lecture is in English, though the discussion is in German. I’ve embedded the film itself below.

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My ten most popular posts this week

Posted on May 18, 2014 by stuartelden

Five apps I find really useful for my writing and blogging

David Harvey – Afterthoughts on Piketty’s Capital

Martin Heidegger interviewed by a Buddhist Monk on German Television (English subtitles)

Video archive of interviews and lectures by geographers in the 1980s – David Harvey, Derek Gregory, Torsten Hägerstrand, Anne Buttimer, etc.

David Harvey, Mapping a New Economy in The Chronicle Review

Foucault Now (2014)

Wonderful photographs of abandoned places

Hannah Arendt movie – trailer and a few thoughts

Boko Haram – An Annotated Bibliography

Talking about Publishing, Urban Territory, and lots else

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‘Books constitute capital’

Posted on May 18, 2014 by stuartelden

Derek Gregory on Harvey, Piketty and Sloterdijk’s books on capital.

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HARVEY Seventeen contradictions Introducing his interview with David Harvey at the Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this week, Scott Carlson notes that

‘The American stage has recently been set for questioning capitalism, with the U.S. tour of academe’s rock star of the moment, Thomas Piketty. The French economist’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century has highlighted capitalism’s drift toward inequality and criticized economists’ focus on pure theory.’

The interview was prompted by the publication of David’s latest book, Seventeen contradictions and the end of capitalism: see also this interview with Jonathan Derbyshirehere.  En route, David has good things to say about Piketty’s project – its empirical detail, its humanistic flourishes (see also Paul Krugmanhere) – but he is evidently dissatisfied with its analytical and, in consequence, its political reach.

Since he spoke to the Chronicle, David has fleshed out his critique of Piketty here.

The book…

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Foucault’s Lectures on the Punitive Society V

Posted on May 18, 2014 by stuartelden

Barry Stocker continues his reading of Foucault.

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Back to blogging on Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, 1972-1973, La société punitive published last year by Seuil, English publication probably still more than a year away. Since I last posted (January 14th), Seuil has brought out the  1980-1981 lectures Subjectivité et Vérité, Amazon France are apparently currently preparing my order for delivery, so it should reach me in Istanbul within a couple of weeks, and I will blog on it after I worked through La société punitive. The period since September has been extremely demanding, largely for the following reasons. I put Kierkegaard on Politics (Palgrave 2014, but in print since November 2013) through proofing and indexing stages and into print; I was one of two people making the co-edited volume Nietzsche as Political Philosopher ready for publication (it is available for pre-order from De Gruyter and should be in print by July), and getting the co-authored…

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The Squared Horizon: The Frames and Trajectories of Paul Virilio, 6 June 2014. Nottingham Trent University

Posted on May 18, 2014 by stuartelden

The Squared Horizon: The Frames and Trajectories of Paul Virilio, 6 June 2014. Nottingham Trent University – full details here.

VirilioIn Desert Screen, Paul Virilio suggests the notion of a ‘squared horizon’ as a way of envisioning the interposition of the screen, multiple screens, in matters of war, conflict and international relations. Yet, the ‘squared horizon’ might also function as a starting point for bringing together the various frames and trajectories which make up Virilio’s oeuvre. The ‘squared horizon’ evokes the fragmented, pixelated existence of late capitalism, the perpetual dividing up of time into ever smaller units, the deferred, bracketed out future, put aside in favour of the instantaneous and immediate, the impact of urbanization with its grid systems and blocks on our experience of space, time and identity.

We are pleased to present a one-day conference focusing on the work of Paul Virilio organized around theme of the squared horizon.

Attendance to the conference is free but please reserve your place here so we have an idea of numbers.

 

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