Author Archives: stuartelden

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 →

Posted in Boundaries, Eyal Weizman, Foucault's Last Decade, Jeremy Crampton, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Paul Virilio, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Shakespearean Territories, Travel, urban/urbanisation, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

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.

Posted in Conferences, Louise Amoore, Politics | 1 Comment

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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Top posts this week on Progressive Geographies

Posted on June 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Shakespeare in New York: Kenneth Branagh as Macbeth – a short review The work of editing – adding references to translations Books received – Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Lefebvre etc. (2 of 3) Books received – territory, borders, architecture, government (1 … Continue reading →

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Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary

Posted on June 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
Paul Rabinow on Foucault & the Contemporary – the host is a bit lacking but Rabinow is probably the most important intellectual of our time… http://www.stanford.edu/dept/fren-ital/opinions/shows/eo10175.mp3 ? Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University…

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Bambach reviews Heidegger’s 1933-34 seminars, Nature, History, State

Posted on June 8, 2014 by stuartelden

Charles Bambach reviews Heidegger’s 1933-34 seminars, Nature, History, State – translated and edited by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt – at NDPR. The volume in question comprises student protocols of the seminars, plus interpretative essays by Robert Bernasconi, Peter Eli Gordon, … Continue reading →

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