Posted on March 4, 2013 by stuartelden

London Critical Theory Summer School with a stellar cast of academics.

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Bruno Latour – fifth and sixth Gifford lectures

Posted on March 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Links to the first four can be found here.

Posted in Bruno Latour | Leave a comment

Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance workshop

Posted on March 4, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve accepted an invitation to give the keynote address to a workshop on ‘Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance’, at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario, 19-20 September 2013.

Posted in Conferences, Politics | Leave a comment

Alexander von Humboldt lecture – The Emergence of Territory

Posted on March 4, 2013 by stuartelden

An old lecture of mine, on the history of territory project, has been posted on YouTube. It’s one of the Alexander von Humboldt lectures at the University of Nijmegen, from September 2010. It’s introduced by Huib Ernste, and you can find my thoughts on how the lecture went here. The lecture was an updated version of one I gave in Erlangen earlier that year.

Posted in The Birth of Territory | Leave a comment

Books received

Posted on March 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Books 4 March 2013

John Sallis, Logic of Imagination; the reissue of Michael Watts, Silent Violence; Paul Virilio’s The Great Accelerator, and Paidraig Carmody, The New Scramble for Africa.

Posted in Books, John Sallis, Michael Watts, Paul Virilio | Leave a comment

Andrew Barry, Material Politics

Posted on March 3, 2013 by stuartelden

BarryAndrew Barry’s new book Material Politics: Disputes Along the Pipeline is forthcoming in September in the RGS-IBG book series.

In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the production of information about their performance, origins, and impact.

    • Presents an original theoretical approach to political geography by revealing the paradoxical relationship between materials and politics

    • Explores how political disputes have come to revolve not around objects in isolation, but objects that are entangled in ever growing quantities of information about their performance, origins, and impact

    • Studies the example of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline – a fascinating experiment in transparency and corporate social responsibility – and its wide-spread negative political impact

    • Capitalizes on the growing interdisciplinary interest, especially within geography and social theory, about the critical role of material artifacts in political life

Posted in Andrew Barry, Books | 3 Comments

Posted on March 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Clive Barnett on Iris Marion Young – one of his ‘favourite thinkers’ series. That series is an intriguing mix – David Byrne, JM Coetzee, Stanley Cavell et. al.

Admin's avatarPop Theory

Picture 092Noticing, rather belatedly I now realise, that the last book by Iris Marion Young had been published got me reflecting on the different encounters I have had with her work over the years, making me feel old, and slow, but also making me realise that sometimes thinkers act as helpful companions. I have always found, on reading Young, that she had got somewhere I wanted to be well before I arrived there, but I have also found this kind of affirming – she is one of the thinkers who always reassured me that I wasn’t completely on the wrong track. So I have been reconstructing ‘my life with Iris’, which does, oddly, include one occasion when I met her in person.

I think my first encounter was in late 1989 – I was in my first term as a graduate student, and this was the moment of postmodernism in geography: Ed Soja’s Postmodern…

View original post 1,448 more words

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Posted on March 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Léopold Lambert on his new book Weaponized Architecture.

Léopold Lambert's avatarThe Funambulist

Weaponized Architecture 2011 Cover

I apologize to those of my readers who would reasonably see this article as a form of self-promotion, this will be the first and only post about this book. Following the research I undertook in 2010 and the architectural project that emerged from it in 2011, My good friends Ethel and Cesar from  DPR-Barcelona and I have worked together to come out with a book, Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence that would be available for all. This is now the case and you can find the book on any national franchise of amazon and (preferably!) in some bookstores in various countries. For a presentation of this work, you can see the small lecture I was lucky to be able to do at the school of architecture of Lund (Sweden) in September 2012. One particularity of the book that is also worth noting, was developed by dpr-barcelona is the introduction…

View original post 336 more words

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Routledge Studies in Global and Transnational Politics Series

Posted on March 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Call for proposals for a new book series – Routledge Studies in Global and Transnational Politics.

The core theme of the series is ‘global connectivities’ and the implications and outcomes of global and transnational processes in history and in the contemporary world. The series aims to promote greater theoretical innovation and inter-disciplinarity in the academic study of global transformations. The understanding of globalization that it employs accords centrality to forms and processes of political, social, cultural and economic connectivity (and disconnectivity) and relations between the global and the local. The series’ editors see the multi-disciplinary exploration of ‘global connectivities’ as contributing both to understanding the nature and direction of current global and transnational transformations, and to recasting the intellectual agenda of the social sciences.

The series aims to publish work that engages these aims and themes by leading and emerging scholars, and will comprise research monographs, edited collections and advanced textbooks for scholars, researchers, policy analysts, and students.

We invite proposals; and if you wish to discuss your ideas at any stage of the project, please contact one of the series editors, below:

Series editors:

Chris Rumford: Chris.Rumford@rhul.ac.uk

Sandra Halperin: Sandra.Halperin@rhul.ac.uk

Luis Lobo-Guerrero: Luis.Lobo-Guerrero@rhul.ac.uk

Download a flyer here.

Posted in Publishing | Leave a comment

Kaleidoscope – postgraduate Durham journal

Posted on March 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Kaleidoscope Vol 5 No 1 is now available. This is a postgraduate journal at Durham University, edited by a small team of committed postgraduates linked to the Institute of Advanced Study.

Unusually, this is a special edition of proceedings from two conferences.

The first of these was the Fifth Annual Rhizomes conference held by The School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies in The University of Queensland, Australia in February 2010, entitled “Diaspora: Language and Place”. The annual Rhizomes Postgraduate Conference provides an opportunity for postgraduates and early career researchers to present research, exchange ideas, and build networks in a friendly and relaxed academic environment while engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue.

The second was the RGS-IBG Postgraduate Mid-term Conference, hosted by Durham University’s Geography Department in 2011. The RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum Midterm Conferenceoffers a welcoming, supportive and affirmative environment for postgraduates to share emerging and ongoing geographical research.

This issue presents a highly diverse and engaging series of papers on topics ranging from British musical futurism, Indian urban imaginaries and Filipino diaspora studies to homosociality in Malory’s Lancelot, Chinese dialects and Dostoevsky’s post-Siberian works.

Issue 5.1 of Kaleidoscope is available to view at:-

http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/ias/kaleidoscope/51Edition.pdf

The Call for Papers for the next edition will be in March, when we will be inviting submissions on the theme of ‘Time’, including full-length articles of 7,000 -10,000 words, as well as shorter articles, book reviews and interviews with academics or authors that are relevant to the theme.

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment