Technologies of Bordering – Yale audio

Posted on April 14, 2012 by stuartelden

The audio of my presentation at the Yale conference – nothing especially new for people who know my work on territory already; and especially this piece – but may be of interest to some. Apologies for the noise in a few places – my notes were too close to the microphone.

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Gone in 16 seconds

Posted on April 14, 2012 by stuartelden

The video of my Kentucky talk has been uploaded… but unfortunately only 16 seconds. I’ll try to find out what’s up. Thanks for the alert on the Geopolitics & Security blog.

Update: now available in full

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Foucault at Berkeley 1983

Posted on April 13, 2012 by stuartelden

This has just been linked to on the Foucault discussion list – a 1983 seminar at Berkeley in the History department.

lecture;
1st discussion;
2nd discussion:

there is also a transcript of the discussion.

Thanks to Kevin Turner for the links.

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Yale borders conference

Posted on April 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Arrived in New Haven yesterday for the ‘Walls and Fences’ conference after several great days in and around the GSD. Neil was a great host, and some good conversations with him, his colleagues at the GSD and visitors. Got to meet Lukasz Stanek for the first time, and David Madden and David Wachsmuth came in the last couple of days to be part of Neil’s Planetary Urbanization seminar. Spent Easter Day walking around Providence. Also made good progress on the ‘Outside Territory’ paper for Paris and Nottingham in May.

I’m the first panellist on the first panel. The paper is basically a version of the ‘Territory without Borders’ piece I published last year in the Harvard International Review, though there is a little extra on the relation between biometrics and geometrics. Only 15 minutes, so have cut it down and practiced aloud a few times to try to keep it focussed. Last night was a welcome dinner and got to meet some interesting people. I’m quite glad to be the first speaker. Not only is it over and I can be more relaxed for the rest of the conference, there is no temptation to rewrite it in response to the other papers. Although the talks are short, there is lots of time for discussion, and there are a range of disciplines and perspectives on show here. Should be good.

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Politics of Place

Posted on April 12, 2012 by stuartelden

New postgraduate journal –

Politics of Place is a peer-reviewed journal for postgraduates. It publishes exceptional research focusing on the relationship between culture and spatiality in works of literature, engaging particularly with issues of nationhood, community, class, marginality, and the self. The journal places specific emphasis on the complex interactions between physical environments and human activity.

more details here.

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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

Posted on April 12, 2012 by stuartelden

David Harvey’s new book is out – my copy was sent to Durham so I’ve not yet seen it. There is a review by Owen Hatherley here; and Harvey talks about the book here.

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Matt Hannah interview on Dark Territory

Posted on April 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Interview about his book Dark Territory in the Information Age: Learning from the West German Census Boycotts of the 1980s at Exploring Geopolitics. Part one and follow the link at the end for part two.

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Edinburgh Bodies in Movement seminar series

Posted on April 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Details up of the three seminars in this series – I’m giving the third of them – 2 July 2012, on Coriolanus. Apparently I will provide ‘a delicious geographical and material twist’ to the play and film…

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New APPS interview with Beth Lord

Posted on April 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Another in the ever-interesting series of interviews – this time with Beth Lord from Dundee (Beth and I were at Warwick at the same time).

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Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

Posted on April 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Details here; review at Berfrois here.

The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon’s fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of scholars at the cutting edge of Pynchon studies. Part I covers Pynchon’s fiction novel-by-novel from the 1960s to the present, including such indisputable classics as The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity’s Rainbow. Part II zooms out to give a bird’s-eye-view of Pynchon’s novelistic practice across his entire career. Part III surveys major topics of Pynchon’s fiction: history, politics, alterity (‘otherness’) and science and technology. Designed for students, scholars and fans alike, the Companion begins with a biography of the elusive author and ends with a coda on how to read Pynchon and a bibliography for further reading.

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