Author Archives: stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 11

Posted on April 6, 2014 by stuartelden

I’d hoped to get right back to the Foucault work on my return from Australia, mainly the chapter on governmentality, but spent much time catching up on other things and getting ready for my trip to Florida (for the AAG … Continue reading →

Posted in Foucault's Last Decade, Michel Foucault | Leave a comment

Nigel Thrift and Steven Koonin discuss urban science and big data

Posted on April 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Nigel Thrift, Vice Chancellor of University of Warwick, and Steven Koonin, Director of New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress, partners in this endeavour, discussed the emerging field of applied urban science and informatics, the opportunities it presents, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Nigel Thrift, urban/urbanisation | Leave a comment

David Harvey, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism – video of LSE talk

Posted on April 5, 2014 by stuartelden

A video of David Harvey’s recent talk on the book here. Thanks to dmfant for the link in comments to this post previewing parts of the book.

Posted in David Harvey | 1 Comment

David Harvey, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

Posted on April 5, 2014 by stuartelden

David Harvey has a piece at the White Review which comprises the final two chapters of his new book, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism. You can also read the Prologue: The Crisis of Capitalism This Time Around.

Posted in David Harvey, Politics | 2 Comments

McKenzie Wark on the Birth of Thanaticism

Posted on April 4, 2014 by stuartelden

McKenzie Wark on the ‘Birth of Thanaticism‘ – a replacement term for capitalism. Climate change, surveillance, public idiots, the crisis of universities, all in here… I did like the idea of the ‘inhumanities and antisocial sciences’ though…

Posted in Politics | 1 Comment

Deleuze and the Passions conference in Rotterdam 16 May 2014

Posted on April 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Programme for conference on Deleuze and the Passions here – Claire Colebrook, Jason Reid and others. Free, but registration required.

Posted in Conferences, Gilles Deleuze | Leave a comment

Gastón Gordillo on The Oceanic Void

Posted on April 4, 2014 by stuartelden

Fascinating preview of a piece by Gastón Gordillo on ‘The Oceanic Void‘ which is forthcoming in an edited book on Deleuze and space, and also part of his planned book on the theory of terrain. Among other things it engages with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Gaston Gordillo, John Protevi, Levi Bryant, Philip Steinberg | 2 Comments

The 24 hour Schedules of Writers, Composers and others – interesting graphical representations

Posted on April 3, 2014 by stuartelden

The Huffington Post links to some interesting graphical representations of 24 hours in the life of creative figures – Beethoven, Balzac, Flaubert, Mozart, etc. Very male and white, but interesting nonetheless. The full diagram is here.  

Posted in Writing | 1 Comment

The Birth of Territory reviewed in Antipode by Phillip Campanile

Posted on April 3, 2014 by stuartelden

There is a critical review of The Birth of Territory by Phillip Campanile in Antipode (pdf). Campanile clearly found the book frustrating in its mode of execution, but also not linked explicitly enough to contemporary debates. As he rightly notes, though, the book sits … Continue reading →

Posted in My Publications, Politics, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory | 2 Comments

Henri Lefebvre, The Critique of Everyday Life – One Volume Edition

Posted on April 3, 2014 by stuartelden

848 pages of Henri Lefebvre – The Critique of Everyday Life: The One-Volume Edition. Three volumes in one – the first volume comes from 1947, with a second edition in 1958 that almost doubles its length; the second volume from 1961; … Continue reading →

Posted in Henri Lefebvre | Leave a comment