Monthly Archives: January 2012

The Territorial Trap of the Territorial Trap

Posted on January 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Nisha Shah‘s important paper “The Territorial Trap of the Territorial Trap: Global Transformation and the Problem of the State’s Two Territories” has recently been published in International Political Sociology (requires subscription). Here’s the abstract: This paper argues that attempts by theories … Continue reading →

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Jason Read on Pierre Macherey, Hegel or Spinoza

Posted on January 13, 2012 by stuartelden

This is a good, detailed review of the recently published translation of Pierre Macherey, Hegel or Spinoza. You can read a brief interview I did with the translator, Susan Ruddick, here. Society and Space published a version of the introduction and … Continue reading →

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On referees

Posted on January 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Over at the Society and Space open site I offer some thoughts on referees and the refereeing process, building on an editorial by Felix Driver in Journal of Historical Geography.

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A roundup

Posted on January 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Here are lots of interesting things I came across while catching up with my Google reader feeds… Some interesting advice on the PhD application process (for the UK) – here (think I got this via New APPS). Also advice – Graham … Continue reading →

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Lisa Jardine on books, internet and knowledge

Posted on January 8, 2012 by stuartelden

If you can get past the Harry Potter bit, this is actually an interesting discussion of modes of knowledge organisation and retrieval.

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Slavoj Žižek on Ralph Fiennes’s film of Coriolanus

Posted on January 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Slavoj Žižek discusses Ralph Fiennes’s film of Coriolanus in the New Statesman (thanks to Paul Harrison for the link). Rather too much about 300, but some interesting comments. I am not convinced that Coriolanus is better than Hamlet. T.S. Eliot (who actually … Continue reading →

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2011 in review

Posted on January 8, 2012 by stuartelden

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 110,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at … Continue reading →

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Novels read in 2011 part 2

Posted on January 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Given the number of these that are not really novels, this list should probably be retitled ‘books I read that are not for work reasons…’ Not as many as the first half of the year, but that’s probably a product … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Cycling, Martin Heidegger, Novels read, Stephen Greenblatt, Umberto Eco, William Shakespeare | 5 Comments

End of 2011, and a look to 2012

Posted on January 7, 2012 by stuartelden

I meant to post this before I went offline for a couple of weeks for Christmas and a holiday in the Gambia, but didn’t do so. Anyway, it is a brief review of my 2011 and a look to 2012… … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Cricket, Cycling, Eduardo Mendieta, Immanuel Kant, My Publications, Peter Sloterdijk, Society and Space, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World, Travel | Leave a comment