Why do faculty work so hard? – Inside Higher Ed essay

Posted on March 5, 2014 by stuartelden

As I am writing this article, I should be writing something else: an email to an editor, an email to an author, a letter of recommendation, notes for tomorrow’s classes, comments on students’ papers, comments on manuscripts, an abstract for an upcoming conference, notes for one of the books I’m working on. I cannot remember the last time I ended a day having crossed everything off my to-do list.

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Nominations for 2014 International Critical Animal Studies Awards and Scholars

Posted on March 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Nominations for 2014 International Critical Animal Studies Awards and Scholars now open – full details here.

 

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Two more pieces on Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’

Posted on March 5, 2014 by stuartelden

41JCuufyXGL._SY445_Two more pieces on Heidegger’s controversial ‘Black Notebooks’ at the Chronicle and Critical Animal. The first of the three volumes of these notebooks – Überlegungen II-VI (Schwarze Hefte 1931-1938) – has now been published.

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Dimitris Vardoulakis, Sovereignty and Its Other reviewed at NDPR

Posted on March 5, 2014 by stuartelden

9780823251360_10Nice review of Dimitris Vardoulakis, Sovereignty and Its Other at NDPR.

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Uma entrevista com Michel Foucault -1975 (2014)

Posted on March 5, 2014 by stuartelden

A very interesting 1975 interview from Foucault in Brazil. This interview was retranslated into French for the Dits et ecrits collection – it appears as text number 163. It is interesting for many reasons, but especially for the extensive discussion of the idea of confession. There is no English translation published – to the best of my knowledge.

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globo-Foucault Interview with Foucault conducted in 1975 published in national newspaper O GLOBO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Uma entrevista com Michel Foucault, O Globo, 11th January 2014

No ano em que se completam três décadas da morte do filósofo francês, o Prosa publica uma entrevista concedida por ele em 1975 durante visita ao Brasil. Nela, Foucault discute as origens de seu método, fala sobre mecanismos de controle na sociedade e critica o ideal de humanismo fundado em “poder normalizador”

Poucos dias depois do assassinato de Vladimir Herzog por agentes do regime militar, em 25 de outubro de 1975, o jornalista e escritor Claudio Bojunga e o psicanalista e ensaísta Reinaldo Lobo entrevistaram o filósofo francês Michel Foucault (1926-1984), então em visita à Universidade de São Paulo. Publicada originalmente no “Jornal da Tarde”, vespertino de “O Estado de S. Paulo”, a conversa examinava as ideias do filósofo libertário das marginalidades…

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George Marcus lecture in Melbourne, 21 March 2014

Posted on March 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Public lecture – “The Relevance of Ethnographic Inquiry Today: Is It Still Small?, Beautiful?, Critical?, Possible?” by Professor George Marcus, University of California, Irvine – Friday, March 21, 2014 – 16:00–18:00, State Library of Victoria

Full details here.

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Ukraine – maps and timeline

Posted on March 5, 2014 by stuartelden

0302_UKRAINE_RUSSIAN_FORCES-945Two more useful background resources on the Ukraine crisis – a detailed timeline at Critical Legal Thinking and some maps at the New York Times.

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Joining the Advisory Council of Durham’s Institute of Advanced Study

Posted on March 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Building_Exterior_2The last major role I had at Durham University was as the social science director of the Institute of Advanced Study. I was very sorry to have to give this up when I moved to the University of Warwick. I’m therefore delighted to have been asked to join the Advisory Council of the IAS, along with some very eminent names. This will give me a strong link back to a remarkable academic institution – a place where thinking and genuinely interdisciplinary work are made possible and warmly welcomed.

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New Formations – cfp Societies of Control

Posted on March 4, 2014 by stuartelden

nf8081New Formations – deadline for contributions to the next general issue (issue 83): April 30th 2014

Call for Contributions: New Formations issue 84-85 Societies of Control

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The People, Place, and Space Reader – open access material

Posted on March 4, 2014 by stuartelden

51Z2K4mz-WL._SY300_The People, Place, and Space Reader, edited by Jen Jack Gieseking & William Mangold, with Cindi Katz, Setha Low, & Susan Saegert

The editors of The People, Place, and Space Reader believe that knowledge should be open to the public and have therefore decided to publicly share their writing in the form of the book introduction and twelve section introductions. If open access (OA) selections from the reader are available, they are hyperlinked on the pages.

Thanks to Clive Barnett’s Pop Theory for the link to this.

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