Cambridge city seminar – audio and video recordings

Posted on May 12, 2014 by stuartelden

This looks a valuable resource – audio and video recordings from the University of Cambridge city seminar. Thanks to dmfant for the link.

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Derek Gregory, ‘The Natures of War’ – Neil Smith memorial lecture

Posted on May 11, 2014 by stuartelden

I made time to watch this powerful, and moving, lecture recently. I think I linked to it at the time, but worth a reminder. Well worth the time – some very good discussion of terrain and nature in warfare – especially mud, desert and jungle.

Derek says a little about the lecture at his Geographical Imaginations site.

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Red Quill Books new website

Posted on May 10, 2014 by stuartelden

Red-Quill-Books-Logo-for-Website-NewRed Quill Books, the radical publisher, have a new website.

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The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon (2014)

Posted on May 10, 2014 by stuartelden

This collection finally published – I have a piece in it on ‘space’. Looking forward to seeing this, though the price means this is destined only for libraries…

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 lexiconThe Cambridge Foucault Lexicon

Editors:
Leonard Lawlor, Pennsylvania State University
John Nale, Pennsylvania State University

Dianna Taylor, Erinn Gilson, Gary Gutting, Richard A. Lynch, H. A. Nethery IV, Eduardo Mendieta, John Protevi, Stephanie Jenkins, James Bernauer, Paul Patton, Corey McCall, Leonard Lawlor, Jeffrey T. Nealon, Christopher Penfield, Arun Iyer, Margaret McLaren, Devonya N. Havis, Gilles Deleuze, Ann V. Murphy, Kevin Thompson, Jana Sawicki, Joshua Kurdys, Charles E. Scott, Todd May, Pol Vandevelde, Judith Revel, Nicolae Morar, Samuel Talcott, Robert Vallier, Phillipe Artière, Mary Beth Mader, Fred Evans, Andrew Dilts, Jared Hibbard-Swanson, Hugh J. Silverman, Paolo Savoia, Alan D. Schrift, Bill Martin, Luca Paltrinieri, Ladelle McWhorter, David-Olivier Gougelet, Gary Shapiro, Miguel de Beistegui, Amy Allen, Brad Stone, Colin Koopman, Chloë Taylor, Adrian Switzer, Robert Bernasconi, Carlos Prado, Johanna Oksala, Mark G. E. Kelly, Lynne Huffer, Olivia Custer, Banu Bargu, Stuart Elden, Ed McGushin, John Nale, Patrick Singy, Allan…

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Foucault’s Manuscripts to the Bibliothèque Nationale

Posted on May 10, 2014 by stuartelden

86tFoucault’s extant manuscript papers – all 37,000 pages of them – have been moved to the Bibliothèque Nationale – story here (in French pp. 26-7; via here – in German).

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Michael Shapiro on Deadwood and The Wire in Geopolitics

Posted on May 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Michael Shapiro discusses Deadwood and The Wire in Geopolitics (requires subscription). Thanks to Elena dell’Agnese for the link.

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A poem by Bud Osborn – ‘Raise shit’

Posted on May 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Bud Osborn’s poem, and the whole set of commentaries on the International Conference in Critical Geography, open access to commemorate Bud’s life.

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‘This is not a cover image’ – bad covers of books on Foucault

Posted on May 9, 2014 by stuartelden

tumblr_inline_n59vvohFao1r1ogyfA set of images of covers of books on Foucault… and their problems. I actually like the Lois McNay cover, but there are some hideous ones here…

Something to bear in mind for Foucault’s Last Decade, though I continue to like the cover image for the book Jeremy Crampton and I edited on Foucault – one of only two times in my publishing career where my/our suggestion for the cover was enthusiastically welcomed by the press (the other was The Birth of Territory). All my book covers are here.

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The end of David Beer’s Thinking Culture blog

Posted on May 8, 2014 by stuartelden

David Beer has decided to close his Thinking Culture blog – a shame, but understandable given his other commitments. He is using his expertise and enthusiasm to great effect at the Theory, Culture and Society blog.

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Deborah Cowen, The Deadly Life of Logistics – coming soon

Posted on May 7, 2014 by stuartelden

A forthcoming book from my friend and co-Society and Space editor, Deborah Cowen – The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade. The book is due out in September 2014.

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A genealogy of logistics, tracing the link between markets and militaries, territory and government

Deborah Cowen traces the art and science of logistics over the past sixty years, from the battlefield to the boardroom and back again. Though the object of corporate and governmental logistical efforts is commodity supply, she demonstrates that they are deeply political—and, considered in the context of the long history of logistics, deeply indebted to the practice of war.

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