Monthly Archives: January 2011

My question to Speculative Medievalisms

Posted on January 15, 2011 by stuartelden

I didn’t get the chance to ask my general question of the whole day. (I didn’t get the chance I’d have liked to ask Nick Srnicek a question either, but I’ll send him that privately.) My question, or more of … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Medieval Studies | 3 Comments

Speculative Medievalisms

Posted on January 15, 2011 by stuartelden

I spent yesterday at the Speculative Medievalisms workshop at King’s College, London. I’d left it late to reserve a place, not knowing if I could make it, and it was full. But fortunately a space opened up for me. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben, Graham Harman, Medieval Studies, Michel Foucault, Quentin Meillassoux | 2 Comments

A day of minor things

Posted on January 13, 2011 by stuartelden

Yesterday was the busiest day yet on this blog, though of course it was mainly to see a post that I didn’t write. I’m sure that I should have followed up today with some insightful thoughts or hard-hitting polemics, but … Continue reading →

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Bartolus consilia found

Posted on January 13, 2011 by stuartelden

A week ago I discussed the last few references I’ve been trying to find for The Birth of Territory. I’m back at the British Library today, and thought I would just check one more time. And I found the Bartolus … Continue reading →

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A monumental project

Posted on January 12, 2011 by stuartelden

[update 5th April 2012 – more details here] The latest newsletter of the Association of American Geographers has a piece by Doug Richardson on a new project –  the tentatively titled International Encyclopaedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology. … Continue reading →

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What kind of bike?

Posted on January 12, 2011 by stuartelden

I have very little to say by way of response to Paul’s post below. I would say one thing though. By ‘road bike’ I meant a bike that is not a mountain bike, rather than a motorbike. This bike actually. Very … Continue reading →

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Paul Ashton of re.press on publishing

Posted on January 12, 2011 by stuartelden

This was posted as a comment, but since these don’t show up in readers etc. unless you subscribe specifically to comments, I will post it here. Hi Stuart, I might take this opportunity to write a few comments in an … Continue reading →

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Die Entstehung des Territorium

Posted on January 12, 2011 by stuartelden

The text of my Erlangen lecture ‘The Emergence of Territory’ has now been translated into German and is available as a working paper here. My sincere thanks to Henning Füller, Georg Glasz and their colleagues for this work. It must … Continue reading →

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Harman on Writing

Posted on January 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Really interesting piece here from Graham Harman on writing. I’m firmly of the view that academics don’t talk enough about the mechanics of writing, and that they only way that we can work out practices that work best for us … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Heidegger videos

Posted on January 11, 2011 by stuartelden

There is lots of stuff of Foucault on Youtube, but I’d not seen this before. http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=2490966830447709021&hl=en&fs=true It’s Foucault at l’Université Catholique de Louvain in 1981, at the time he gave the “Mal faire, dire vrai” lectures. Many thanks to Clare … Continue reading →

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