Author Archives: stuartelden

The nature(s) of war and biomimetic war

Posted on February 25, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
One of my tasks this past week has been to complete the revisions to ‘The Natures of War’ which, to my delight, Antipode has agreed to publish in its entirety (and with a handful of…

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My review of Mustafa Dikeç’s new book, ‘Space, Politics and Aesthetics’

Posted on February 25, 2015 by stuartelden

Nicholas Crane’s review of Mustafa Dikeç’s forthcoming book.

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Simon Dalby, International Security in the Anthropocene at E-IR

Posted on February 25, 2015 by stuartelden

Simon Dalby, “International Security in the Anthropocene” at E-IR.

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McKenzie Wark, Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene

Posted on February 25, 2015 by stuartelden

  Forthcoming from Verso in April: In Molecular Red, McKenzie Wark creates philosophical tools for the Anthropocene, our new planetary epoch, in which human and natural forces are so entwined that the future of one determines that of the other. Wark … Continue reading →

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Babette Babich – The Hallelujah Effect

Posted on February 25, 2015 by stuartelden

Babette Babich’s book The Hallelujah Effect: Philosophical Reflections on Music, Performance Practice, and Technology is now available at a much-discounted price. This book studies the working efficacy of Leonard Cohen’s song Hallelujah in the context of today’s network culture. Especially as recorded … Continue reading →

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Richard Polt translates some more excerpts from Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’

Posted on February 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Richard Polt translates some more excerpts from Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ for critical-theory.com For why I’m not saying more, see last week’s post – Why I’m not writing or speaking about Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (except here)

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Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics – abstract for my lecture at University of New South Wales

Posted on February 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics 10th March, 4pm, School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales This lecture will introduce the work I have been doing on the question of territory over the past several years, leading to two … Continue reading →

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Citizenfour wins Oscar

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Citizenfour, the documentary about Edward Snowden, won an Oscar last night in the Best Documentary category. The movie will be shown on HBO tonight (9PM EST). The Oscar went to director Laura Poitras, editor Mathilde Bonnefoy…

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Simeon Wade (ed.) Chez Foucault – the 1978 fanzine with a 1976 interview with Foucault

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Back in December I posted about an elusive publication which contained a 1976 discussion with Foucault which appeared in Chez Foucault, Los Angeles: Circabook, 1978, pp. 4-22. While this text is translated into French for Dits et écrits (online here), I wanted to find … Continue reading →

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Jean-Luc Nancy and Heidegger’s Black Notebooks

Posted on February 23, 2015 by stuartelden

In addition to the pieces linked a few days ago, this news from Philippe Theophanidis: An audio recording of a lecture Jean-Luc Nancy’s gave back in October 2014 just surfaced on the web. The title of the lecture is “Die Banalität … Continue reading →

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