Author Archives: stuartelden

The Birth of Territory reviewed in Law, Culture and the Humanities by Thanos Zartaloudis

Posted on May 19, 2016 by stuartelden

The Birth of Territory is reviewed in Law, Culture and the Humanities by Thanos Zartaloudis (requires subscription). It’s a generous summary of the book and says a few things about the legal aspects of the argument. To the legal audience … Continue reading →

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Elsevier buy Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Posted on May 18, 2016 by stuartelden

News yesterday that Elsevier had bought Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has caused a lot of controversy. SSRN is used to share work in progress, Elsevier is a controversial publisher with expensive subscriptions. The Duck of Minerva has one take on … Continue reading →

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Royalties

Posted on May 18, 2016 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Conversation with a (smart) undergraduate student yesterday, about the amount of money academics make from book sales. I asked him how much he thought an academic got in royalties for a £20 book. ‘About £9?’ It’s…

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Mark Neocleous, The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and the ‘Enemies of All Mankind’ – a few thoughts

Posted on May 18, 2016 by stuartelden

As I’ve previously mentioned, Mark Neocleous, The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and the ‘Enemies of All Mankind’ is now out with Routledge. Here’s the backcover description: The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy. This book is a radical exploration … Continue reading →

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Books received 2 – Shakespeare and Heidegger

Posted on May 18, 2016 by stuartelden

Two (poor quality) second-hand Shakespeare books and the last of the Oxford sale books I’d ordered, plus the first volume of Heidegger’s lectures from the Gesamtausgabe.  

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Books received 1 – review work for Verso

Posted on May 18, 2016 by stuartelden

A number of recent and not-so-recent books from Verso after I wrote a report for them. 

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Graham Harman, Dante’s Broken Hammer

Posted on May 17, 2016 by stuartelden

Graham Harman, Dante’s Broken Hammer, forthcoming in October 2016 from Repeater Books. His Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory recently appeared with Polity. In this book the founder of object-oriented philosophy transforms one of the classic poets of the Western canon, Dante … Continue reading →

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Christian-François de Kervran, Les dix et une nuits de Jean Barraqué et Michel Foucault à Trélévern

Posted on May 17, 2016 by stuartelden

This looks a curious new book on the very early Foucault – Christian-François de Kervran, Les dix et une nuits de Jean Barraqué et Michel Foucault à Trélévern. Au printemps 1952 le philosophe Michel Foucault et Jean Barraqué, compositeur de musique … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 15 – revision and resubmission of the manuscript, and table of contents

Posted on May 16, 2016 by stuartelden

While I had made some changes to the manuscript after submission, and again after receiving the reports, on Sunday evening I finished four long days of thoroughly revising the text and resubmitted it to the publisher. Just as I was beginning … Continue reading →

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Books received – Oxford Shakespeare volumes

Posted on May 16, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile of volumes in the Oxford Shakespeare series -there was a sale on, so I picked up a number of ones I didn’t already have that will inform work over the next few months.

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