Hannah Arendt movie – trailer and a few thoughts

Posted on May 15, 2014 by stuartelden


I finally watched the Hannah Arendt movie yesterday. In some parts it’s flawed – especially the flashback scenes to her time at Freiburg University, and the affair with Heidegger – but other parts are powerful and thoughtful. It mainly focuses on the Adolf Eichmann trial, blending documentary footage with the film. I liked that it was in multiple languages, with subtitles. It’s especially good on the controversy following her book on the trial, and the complicated relationship with Hans Jonas was interesting. Worth watching if you can.

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

Posted on May 15, 2014 by stuartelden

This is a rather strange interview, which Heidegger appears to have scripted in advance and to be reading off notes. Thanks to Elena Loizidou for the link (via Open Culture) – click on cc at the bottom if the subtitles don’t appear.

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Wonderful photographs of abandoned places

Posted on May 15, 2014 by stuartelden

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Many more here.

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Editorial Team Sought for New AAG Journal ‘GeoHumanities’

Posted on May 14, 2014 by stuartelden

The Association of American Geographers seeks applications and nominations for a team of two co-editors for a new AAG journal, to be published by Routledge titled GeoHumanities.  The co-editors will be appointed for a four-year editorial term that will commence December 1, 2014.  We anticipate that the team will be comprised of one editor from Geography and one from a Humanities discipline.

The aim of the journal is to draw on and further explore the multifaceted scholarly conversations between geography and the humanities that have been evolving over the past decade.  As such, we anticipate that the journal will serve as a home for the critical and creative interdisciplinary work of artists, authors, historians, geographers, literary and feminist theorists, environmentalists, philosophers and others working across a broad spectrum of disciplines, and at scales from the personal and local to the  international and global.

More details here.

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David Harvey, Mapping a New Economy in The Chronicle Review

Posted on May 14, 2014 by stuartelden

photo_50373_wide_largeDavid Harvey’s most recent book, and his career as a whole, is discussed in The Chronicle Review.

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Warwick Institute of Advanced Study Visiting Fellowships

Posted on May 14, 2014 by stuartelden

iasWarwick’s Institute of Advanced Study invites applications to its Visiting Fellowship Programme (Deadline 30 June 2014) – full details here.

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New Editor Positions: The Geographical Journal, Area and the RGS-IBG Book Series (Human)

Posted on May 14, 2014 by stuartelden

RGS-IBG journals and book series seek new editors.

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Austerity and Crisis/Emergency

Posted on May 14, 2014 by stuartelden

Initial details of a workshop in Durham.

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Initial details of a workshop at Durham on ‘Austerity and Emergency/Crisis’. It’s not formally part of the network, but obviously linked. If anyone is interested in attending or contributing then please get in contact with ben.anderson@durham.ac.uk. The workshop is being organised as part of an ESRC seminar series on ‘Austere Futures’ led by Beckie Coleman at Goldsmiths;
http://www.austerityfutures.org.uk/events/

Austerity and Crisis/Emergency
Department of Geography, Durham University
30th June 2014
11.00-18.00

The fifth seminar in the ESRC seminar series on ‘Austerity Futures: Imagining and Materialising the Future in an ‘Age of Austerity’’ will hone in on the relation between austerity and crisis and emergency – where crisis and emergency are understood as both material and affective conditions lived unevenly and as specific ways of rendering events and situations governable. A range of recent work has mapped how austerity emerged, or was returned to and reconfigured, in the midst of a translation…

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Fudge, Judy and Strauss, Kendra (Eds) 2013 Temporary work, agencies and unfree labour, reviewed by Ben Rogaly

Posted on May 14, 2014 by stuartelden

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

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Foucault Now (2014)

Posted on May 13, 2014 by stuartelden

The latest volume in the Polity ‘Theory Now’ series.

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foucault-nowJames Faubion (Editor), Foucault Now, Polity, February 2014

ISBN: 978-0-7456-6378-4
232 pages

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Description

Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been put run the risk of and occasionally simply amount to misuse.This interdisciplinary volume brings together a group of esteemed scholars, recognized for their command of and insights into Foucault’s oeuvre. They demonstrate the many respects in which Foucault’s project of an ontology of the present remains vital and continues to yield compelling insights and show that an ontology of the present is restricted to no particular terrain, but instead ranges widely and on paths that frequently intersect.The essays in this much-needed new collection address the key components of…

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