Elsevier ‘How to get published’ guide

Posted on April 8, 2011 by stuartelden

Find it here. Obviously largely on the mechanics, but there is some useful stuff here, and not entirely for those at the beginning of their careers.

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Gough map

Posted on April 7, 2011 by stuartelden

In a comment to an earlier post, Keith Lilley mentions the Gough Map. Definitely worth a look at the website of the project Keith has been leading on this map, usually thought to be from the 14th century. Lots of information, but especially good for the digitized version of the map.

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Interview with Bill Cronon

Posted on April 7, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting, thoughtful piece in The Capital Times

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Edinburgh University Press philosophy

Posted on April 5, 2011 by stuartelden

Edinburgh University Press have a new philosophy catalogue out. Lots of really interesting books in there – Graham Harman’s book on Meillassoux launches the new Speculative Realism series; plus Gerald Moore’s book on The Politics of the Gift (endorsed by Bernard Stiegler); and more books on Deleuze than anyone could surely want…

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Ruddick and Macherey free access

Posted on April 5, 2011 by stuartelden

Following the recent  interview with Susan Ruddick about translating Pierre Macherey, Society and Space has made two more texts free access to non-subscribers. They both come from Macherey’s forthcoming book Hegel or Spinoza (University of Minnesota Press), and are Sue’s introduction and the translation of one chapter which appear in the current issue of the journal.

The plan is that when we interview authors on the new blog we make their work in the Environment and Planning series of journals free access for a limited time.

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Society and Space free access highlight papers

Posted on April 5, 2011 by stuartelden

These have been available for a while, but there are a number of papers in Society and Space that are free access as highlights of recently published work. They include papers by Judith Butler; Peter Sloterdijk; Naomi Klein and Neil Smith in conversation; Shiloh Krupar (who has another piece in the new issue); Bob Jessop, Neil Brenner, and Martin Jones; Juliet Flower MacCannell on Badiou; and Melissa Wright. Info and links here.

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Arts and Humanities Research Council and the ‘Big Society’

Posted on April 4, 2011 by stuartelden

The Arts and Humanities Research Council links to the Conservative party ‘big society’ idea continue.

Thom Brooks provides some updates on his blog; Stefan Collini discusses in The Guardian here. Brooks organised a petition which you can sign here; but this does not seem to have made a difference. He’s now urging people to write to the AHRB direct. I’ve just done so and think it is important that as many people as possible take the trouble to do this.

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Nancy, Badiou, Connolly on contemporary events

Posted on April 4, 2011 by stuartelden

Jean-Luc Nancy supports the war in Libya (some excerpts in English here); which Alain Badiou criticises here.

William Connolly takes a broader view of ‘The Politics of the Event’ here.

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They don’t know what they’re doing

Posted on April 4, 2011 by stuartelden

“Ministers admit plans for tuition fees are in disarray”

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China Miéville on Fiction and Politics

Posted on April 3, 2011 by stuartelden

The Weird: a discussion of fiction and politics with China Miéville here. Discussion based, rather than a formal talk, but his answers are detailed and there is a lot of interesting stuff here about genres in literature, political symbolism of cephalopods, hauntology, typologies of the monstrous, etc.

“I was talking to a philosopher of octopus cognition…”

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