Monthly Archives: March 2012

Lefebvre and Democracy

Posted on March 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Mark Purcell has posted his AAG talk on Lefebvre and Democracy, here (via Clive Barnett, who offers a brief critique).

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Draft translation from Agamben’s Opus Dei: An Archeology of Office

Posted on March 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko has made available the preface, here. This book, and Highest Poverty, are being translated for Stanford UP. More here.

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Schmitt book now in paperback

Posted on March 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos, edited by Stephen Legg, is now available in paperback. You can also preview the introduction there. The book includes a slightly revised version of my piece on Schmitt that first appeared in … Continue reading →

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Macherey, Hegel or Spinoza – panel discussion

Posted on March 2, 2012 by stuartelden

The discussion of Pierre Macherey, Hegel or Spinoza at the Association of American Geographers included Keith Woodward, Susan Ruddick, Stuart Elden, Vinay Gidwani, and Warren Montag. You can find the audio recording here. I’ve posted the following before, but you can read a … Continue reading →

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Julia Reinhard Lupton, Thinking with Shakespeare reviewed

Posted on March 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Julia Reinhard Lupton’s Thinking with Shakespeare was a book I read before the Anachronic Shakespeare conference – I wanted to be in some way prepared, and in any case it looked, and was, very interesting. There is a review in … Continue reading →

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Palgrave Macmillan journals open access for March

Posted on March 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Details here – don’t be misled (as I was) by the bit about the librarian needing to get a site licence – just go to the individual journals and it looks like all papers can be freely downloaded.

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Agamben translations under contract

Posted on March 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko has the news that he will be translating two pieces of Agamben’s Homo Sacer series – Opus dei: Archeologia dell’ufficio and Altissima povertà: Regole monastiche e forma di vita – details here. And here’s a link to the plan … Continue reading →

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China Miéville on contemporary London

Posted on March 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Powerful writing in The New York Times. [A fuller, illustrated version is here] London is full of ghosts — ghost walks; a city’s worth of cemeteries; ghost-advertising, scabs of paint on brick. The city invoked something, read a grimoire it … Continue reading →

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Territory, Politics, Governance – new journal

Posted on March 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Not much on the journal site as yet – http://www.tandfonline.com/rtep

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Luise Fischer on Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on March 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Nice review of Reading Kant’s Geography at H-Net. The review is freely available, but here are a couple of excerpts: Stuart Elden and Eduardo Mendieta’s edition Reading Kant’s Geography is a masterful attempt “to remedy this glaring neglect” and to … Continue reading →

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