Monthly Archives: February 2012

New York talks

Posted on February 22, 2012 by stuartelden

Off to New York, probably my favourite city. Three talks over the next few days… 24-25 February 2012 – “The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth”, Anachronic Shakespeare conference, Poetics and Theory program, New York University 27 February 2012 … Continue reading →

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Outside Territory

Posted on February 22, 2012 by stuartelden

This is the talk I’ll be giving at the ‘Extraterritoriality’ conference of the Exterritory project – Paris, May 2nd. This talk seeks to explore what it means to be outside territory. It does so in three registers. First, it discusses … Continue reading →

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Is your packaging really necessary?

Posted on February 21, 2012 by stuartelden
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The analytic/continental divide (again)

Posted on February 21, 2012 by stuartelden

Gary Gutting has recently written a piece about the analytic/continental divide for The New York Times. Eric Schliesser has written a long response here; Graham Harman responds here; Plastic Bodies here.

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CRIPS annual lecture at Warwick

Posted on February 20, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ll be giving the Critical International and Political Studies annual lecture at the University of Warwick in October 2012. It will be 10 years since I left the Politics and International Studies department at Warwick, and though I’ve been back for a few … Continue reading →

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By Sovereignty of Nature: Ralph Fiennes’s Coriolanus

Posted on February 20, 2012 by stuartelden

My piece on Coriolanus has now been published at Berfrois. [update: Julia Reinhard Lupton links to this from her valuable Thinking with Shakespeare blog – and in doing so describes me as a ‘progressive geographer’… I like it, and perhaps … Continue reading →

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Cambridge discussion audio

Posted on February 20, 2012 by stuartelden

The audio recording of the discussion on 16 February 2012 with Adam Ramadan is now available. Many thanks to Adam for asking the questions and John Mason and the Cambridge University Geographical Society for inviting me and organising the event. Apart from a … Continue reading →

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Para-Academic Publishing

Posted on February 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting event in New York in April (via The Whim)

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Ian Bogost – Alien Phenomenology

Posted on February 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Ian Bogost has news of his very shortly forthcoming book Alien Phenomenology, with  University of Minnesota Press. A bold new metaphysics that explores how all things—from atoms to green chiles, cotton to computers—interact with, perceive, and experience one another In … Continue reading →

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Gerard Toal on political affect

Posted on February 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting post from Gerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail) on political affect, which links to a piece he wrote for Antipode in 2004, and where he promises to develop an affective geopolitics. Most contemporary geographers will be aware that the discipline … Continue reading →

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