Monthly Archives: September 2013

Neil Brenner (ed.) Implosions/Explosions – forthcoming

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Jovis Verlag have a page up for Neil Brenner’s collection, Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization. In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical … Continue reading →

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Neil Smith papers and tributes open access from Taylor and Francis

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Taylor and Francis have put together some open access papers by and on Neil Smith.

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Books received – Explore Everything and Lifeblood

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Two very interesting books in the post – Bradley Garrett’s stunningly illustrated and designed Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City and Matthew Huber’s Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom and the Forces of Capital. Thanks to the publishers for sending these.  

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Fionnuala O’Neill response to my The Geopolitics of King Lear

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

In the same issue of Law and Literature that my paper “The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth” (free download) appears in, there is a piece by Fionnuala O’Neill entitled “Toward Tyranny: Geopolitics and Genre, A Response to Stuart Elden” (requires … Continue reading →

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The early Derrida on Heidegger, la question de l’Être et l’histoire

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Talking of Derrida on Heidegger, a 1964-65 course, entitled Heidegger, la question de l’Être et l’histoire is being published next month.

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Reading David Farrell Krell on Derrida and our Animal Others

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

David Farrell Krell has long been one of my favourite commentators on Heidegger and Nietzsche. He is the principal translator of Heidegger’s multi-volume book on Nietzsche, as well as Basic Writings and some other texts, wrote the great book Daimon … Continue reading →

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Syria: Mapping the conflict

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

The BBC has a good, interactive image mapping the Syria conflict. It is “produced by the Syria Needs Analysis Project (SNAP), [and] is based on information from the US government compiled from media sources”.  

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New Journal: The Anthropocene Review

Posted on September 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
A new journal is now being published with Sage titled The Anthropocene Review. Here is the “aims and scope” of the new publication that I snagged from the blog where you can also find…

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Earth, Terricide, Geo-metrics

Posted on September 5, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve now nearly finished writing my keynote lecture for the Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance workshop at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (September 19-20). The title is “Geo-metrics” (abstract here). This is the third in a sequence of … Continue reading →

Posted in Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Conferences, Elizabeth Grosz, Eugen Fink, Henri Lefebvre, Kostas Axelos, Martin Heidegger, Politics, Publishing, Speaking Against Number, Writing | 3 Comments

Shakespeare in Stratford

Posted on September 4, 2013 by stuartelden

One of the things I was looking forward to about being in the Midlands again was the proximity to Stratford-on-Avon. Susan and I went to see Titus Andronicus at the end of August, and I’ve booked tickets for As You … Continue reading →

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