Monthly Archives: June 2014

Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds – new book series edited by Jason Dittmer and Ian Klinke

Posted on June 13, 2014 by stuartelden

Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds – Rowman International  Series edited by Jason Dittmer and Ian Klinke This series publishes studies that originate in a range of different fields that are nonetheless linked through their common foundation: a belief that the macro-scale of geopolitics … Continue reading →

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Graham Harman’s Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political due out in October

Posted on June 12, 2014 by stuartelden

Graham Harman’s new book Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political is due out in October. Details in the Pluto catalogue (via his blog).

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Intervention – ‘Merkel’s Geography: Maps and Territory in China’

Posted on June 12, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
by Marijn Nieuwenhuis, University of Warwick Maps are vital for the geographic imaginary of the state. They are, as David Harvey (2001) and others (see, for example, Crampton and Elden 2007; Elden 2013) remind us,…

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David Storey reviews The Birth of Territory in Journal of Historical Geography

Posted on June 10, 2014 by stuartelden

David Storey reviews The Birth of Territory in Journal of Historical Geography (requires subscription or email me). Here’s the final paragraph. This is a work of history, political science, law and philosophy as well as a work of geography. In telling the … Continue reading →

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Can you imagine a world with ice?

Posted on June 10, 2014 by stuartelden

That headline’s not a typo. Lots of people are wondering what it would mean to have a world without ice. However, even as glaciers melt and sea level rises there’s still going to be a lot of ice around for…

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Archipelago/Funambulist Conversation between Léopold Lambert and Stuart Elden on Territory and Volume

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve linked to content on Archipelago – the podcast companion site to Léopold Lambert’s The Funambulist – before. This time it’s a discussion with me, conducted at the CUSP offices in New York, and mainly discussing my 2013 article “Secure the … Continue reading →

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The work of editing – adding references to translations II

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

In a previous post I said a bit about one of the tasks of editing a translation. I’ve now completed the Heidegger references I discussed in that previous post. The references to Hegel, Jaspers, Heraclitus, Homer, Lukács and Lenin took relatively … Continue reading →

Posted in Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Lukács, Karl Jaspers, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, Publishing | 3 Comments

Authority and Political Technology workshop – keynote audio recordings

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Recordings from the recent Authority and Political Technologies workshop are now available at the Warwick website – Christian Borch, Luciana Parisi, Amade M’Charek, Louise Amoore, Costas Douzinas and AbdouMaliq Simone.

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Next installments of Barry Stocker’s reading of Foucault’s Subjectivity and Truth lectures

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

The second half of lecture 1, and the first half of lecture 2.

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Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions – first chapter online

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

The first chapter of Ben Anderson’s Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions is available online. The book will be out in July. Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, … Continue reading →

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