Author Archives: stuartelden

Books received – territory, borders, architecture, government (1 of 3)

Working through the post… Saskia Sassen’s Expulsions and Darshan Vigneswaran’s Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System – both to review; Jones and Johnston’s Placing the Border in Everyday Life – which I endorsed; and Lemm and Vatter’s … Continue reading

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Gerry Kearns reviews The Birth of Territory – and a minor note on ‘land’

Gerry Kearns has written a review of The Birth of Territory for Society and Space. My sincere thanks to Gerry, and Veronica della Dora, who commissioned the review. The review is available open access, so I won’t quote from it here. It’s a … Continue reading

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Critical Theory books that came out in May

A nice round-up of some recent books – Derrida, Laclau, Lefebvre, Damlé, Flusser, etc. -at critical-theory.com  

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The post mountain

Back in the UK – this was what was awaiting me at work. The two big boxes are from the Verso sale; the rest I’m not yet sure.

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Tom Conley reviews The Birth of Territory in Imago Mundi

Tom Conley reviews The Birth of Territory in Imago Mundi (subscription required). It’s a thoughtful, generous and engaged review. Here’s the first paragraph: Readers of Imago Mundi will appreciate this book for what it does along the fringes the history … Continue reading

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Top posts this week

Mapping the world through its airport connections – excellent visualisation Medieval rules for sex in an easy to use flowchart Boko Haram – An Annotated Bibliography Wendy Brown—Governmentality in the Age of Neoliberalism (2014) Rob Kitchin’s forthcoming The Data Revolution … Continue reading

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Shakespeare in New York: Kenneth Branagh as Macbeth – a short review

Warning: if you are planning on seeing this production of Macbeth, I’d suggest not reading further. There are spoilers about the production I would not have wanted to know beforehand.     The staging of Macbeth at the Park Avenue … Continue reading

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen on finishing a book

A nice piece on the process of finishing a book – in this case, Stories of Stone for University of Minnesota Press – which discusses funding, collaboration and the process of writing.

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Foucault’s Lectures on the Punitive Society X

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of March 7th 1973 ? Foucault continues a discussion from the last lecture of the lawyer Guy-Jean-Baptiste Target, he refers to there in connection with the dehumanised account of peasant rebels against the regime of…

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The Onuf Principles

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
Nicholas Onuf recently gave an interview over at e-IR. Several people of our acquaintance shared the tail-end of that, in which he is prompted to dispense career advice. Although opinions are indeed like…

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