Monthly Archives: September 2010

Seventeenth political theory and its context

Posted on September 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Peter follows up my last Leibniz post with a different question. I was talking about how Descartes came just before Leibniz, and how Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza, Pufendorf, Newton were his contemporaries. Peter asks Here’s a perhaps naive question, but isn’t it … Continue reading →

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A little more on Leibniz

Posted on September 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Both Graham Harman and Peter Gratton respond to my Leibniz posts of yesterday, and then Peter responds to Graham. They both comment on what I said about Leibniz, and also on his standing as a philosopher. Peter then rightly questions the … Continue reading →

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Leibniz and Nijmegen

Posted on September 5, 2010 by stuartelden

I should add that Leibniz gives me a perfect ‘Hello Cleveland!’ moment for next week’s lecture in Nijmegen. The talk I will give with be a developed and updated version of ‘The Emergence of Territory’ lecture I gave in Erlangen in July.

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Leibniz

Posted on September 5, 2010 by stuartelden

Anyone who’s been reading this blog recently knows that I’ve been working on Leibniz, and little else, for the past few weeks. I can’t stress enough the difficulties I’m encountering in this work.  Part of the problem is that – … Continue reading →

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Moretti on Deleuze & Guattari and Derrida

Posted on September 5, 2010 by stuartelden

In a hundred-odd pages, the book by Deleuze and Guattari [Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature] contains a truly impressive amount of nonsense; just the opposite, to be fair, of Derrida’s essay on Ulysses, which in the same number of pages … Continue reading →

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Kritike new issue

Posted on September 5, 2010 by stuartelden

You can find the new issue of Kritike here. There’s the Paul Ennis review of Braver’s book on the late Heidegger, previously mentioned here; a range of pieces including an essay on Heidegger; an article and subsequent exchange on Foucault and … Continue reading →

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Roundup – Iraq, Ihde, Meillassoux

Posted on September 4, 2010 by stuartelden

Roy Scranton on Iraq – part one of five – here. Scranton is an ex-soldier who served in Iraq, who wrote a very interesting article for City journal a few years ago – “Walls and Shadows: The Occupation of Baghdad”. … Continue reading →

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Foucault News

Posted on September 4, 2010 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell has moved the Foucault News blog to a separate site – here.

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England v. Bulgaria

Posted on September 3, 2010 by stuartelden

Great night out at the football with my brother and nephew. Bit patchy at times but a strong result.

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Badiou, Meillassoux and worlds

Posted on September 3, 2010 by stuartelden

Very interesting post from Graham Harman about the Badiou/Meillassoux relation (both father and son). It’s most relevant for me given that my next project is on the idea of ‘world’ in a range of forms. L’inexistence divine was going to … Continue reading →

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