Monthly Archives: December 2010

David Campbell on Wikileaks

Posted on December 10, 2010 by stuartelden

Some good analysis here.

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Thoughts on the fees issue

Posted on December 10, 2010 by stuartelden

The Liberal Democrats justify breaking their pre-election pledge by claiming that compromises have to be made in coalition. But the Liberal Democrats were never going to form an administration on their own. They therefore knew that they would not be … Continue reading →

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Audio files of lectures on Foucault’s 82-83 course

Posted on December 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Audio files of lectures on Foucault’s 82-83 course on The Government of Self and Others are available here. This was a workshop at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, now at Kingston, on 2nd December 2010.

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Sloterdijk – Neither Sun nor Death delayed

Posted on December 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Neither Sun nor Death – the volume of interviews with Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs – still doesn’t appear to be out, despite being scheduled for November. The title comes from the claim that neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a … Continue reading →

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Human Remains

Posted on December 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Conference session organised by Paul Harrison (paul.harrison@durham.ac.uk) and John Wylie – reposted from crit-geog-forum Paper Session at the 4th Nordic Geographers Meeting “Geographical Knowledge, Nature and Practice” ENSPAC, Roskilde University, Denmark. 24.–27. May 2011 Human Remains: the place of the … Continue reading →

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Reactions to Terror and Territory

Posted on December 8, 2010 by stuartelden

A generous post commenting on Terror and Territory, by Devin Shaw, can be found here. Very generous: it claims that my account of sovereignty is “more nuanced than Agamben’s”; and that for a take on the rhetoric of the neo-cons, … Continue reading →

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The Political Philosophy of Julian Assange

Posted on December 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Peter Ludlow has written an analysis of Assange, available through the Leiter Reports blog: I’ve organized my summary of his position into three parts.  First, I’ll look at his view of what conspiracies are and how they are formed.  Second, … Continue reading →

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Further Reading

Posted on December 7, 2010 by stuartelden

More books received recently… Jeppe Strandsbjerg, Territory, Globalisation and International Relations: The Cartographic Reality of Space – I wrote an endorsement for this, and it’s good to see it out. Needless to say it is highly recommended. Nathan Widder, Reflections on … Continue reading →

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ALGC conference – Aberystwyth

Posted on December 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Speaking of Connolly, he is the keynote speaker at this conference – I spoke at the one earlier this yearand it’s highly recommended as an interesting intellectual space. The 9th Aberystwyth-Lancaster Graduate Colloquium 2nd- 4th June 2011 Department of International … Continue reading →

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Connolly’s World

Posted on December 6, 2010 by stuartelden

An exciting looking new book by William E. Connolly, A World of Becoming, is forthcoming, apparently this month. Full details here, but here’s the description. In A World of Becoming William E. Connolly outlines a political philosophy suited to a world … Continue reading →

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