Monthly Archives: November 2010

A busy week

Posted on November 19, 2010 by stuartelden

Gave a workshop on publishing with graduate students in geography at University of Washington on Monday, plus a few follow-up meetings. I was invited to come to a class in the Geopolitics course at UW, where the students had been … Continue reading →

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Mark Blyth on austerity

Posted on November 17, 2010 by stuartelden

This is a terrific video of Mark Blyth explaining and criticising ‘austerity’ (via here). Although the animations help, this is really good counter-argument to people who think you cannot achieve anything in a 20 minute conference slot. This is just … Continue reading →

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David Livingstone on Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on November 17, 2010 by stuartelden

A moment of Kantian enlightenment! In a splendid, interdisciplinary set of interrogations, the nature and significance of Immanuel Kant’s geography is brought into full light for the very first time. This remarkable work of retrieval thus enlightens, at once, Kant’s … Continue reading →

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Society and Space – Global Borders issue

Posted on November 17, 2010 by stuartelden

Issue 6 of this year is now available online here. It’s a theme issue on ‘Global Borders’ guest edited by Chris Rumford of Royal Holloway. A whole range of papers on the EU, migration, Denmark, Sweden and Canada, virtual biopolitics, … Continue reading →

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And it still wasn’t enough

Posted on November 17, 2010 by stuartelden

Many people will be aware of the ‘what is it like to be a woman in philosophy’ blog, which makes for very depressing reading. Here’s an example from history – both in time (from 1954) and the discipline… From the … Continue reading →

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Gratton on the world and calculation

Posted on November 16, 2010 by stuartelden

Responding to my comments on the RPA, Peter Gratton offers his own thoughts on the conference and the notion of the world here; and then on the question of calculation here. He does the latter through some quotes from Dominique … Continue reading →

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Brenner and Elden on Lefebvre, now in Italian

Posted on November 16, 2010 by stuartelden

The piece Neil Brenner and I wrote on Lefebvre – “Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory”, International Political Sociology, Vol 3 No 4, 2009, pp. 353–377 – has now been translated into Italian – “Stato, Spazio e Territorio”, translated by Pasquale Alferj, … Continue reading →

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Pierre Macherey – Hegel or Spinoza

Posted on November 16, 2010 by stuartelden

Pierre Macherey‘s Hegel ou Spinoza is coming out in English translation in late 2011, with University of Minnesota Press. The translation is by Sue Ruddick of Department of Geography at University of Toronto. Really great to see this come to … Continue reading →

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Roundup – King Lear, David Harvey, Medieval Cartography

Posted on November 16, 2010 by stuartelden

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen has an interesting post on teaching King Lear here. Lear is part of Chapter Eight of my territory book, and I know the section on it is too long. It will be difficult to cut it. I … Continue reading →

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Wendy Brown – Walled States, Waning Sovereignty

Posted on November 15, 2010 by stuartelden

Bit late on this – Wendy Brown’s book Walled States, Waning Sovereignty is now out. I saw some of the material for the book in advance of her lecture at the Open University last year, and it’s well worth a … Continue reading →

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