Author Archives: stuartelden

Madeleine Fagan – Ethics and Politics after Poststructuralism Levinas, Derrida and Nancy

My Warwick colleague Madeleine Fagan’s book Ethics and Politics after Poststructuralism: Levinas, Derrida and Nancy has now been released by Edinburgh University Press. This groundbreaking book offers a fresh and innovative perspective on ethics and politics after poststructuralism. Madeleine Fagan argues … Continue reading →

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A Feeling for Things: A Conversation around the work of Jane Bennett – audio recordings

Backdoor Broadcasting Company have made available the audio recordings from the Jane Bennett workshop on 5th October. Contributions from Jane Bennett, Lisa Baraitser, Michael O’Rourke, Joao Florencio, Eileen Joy, Nigel Clark, and Eszter Timár.

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Two days in Zurich

Just back from two very nice days in Zurich. Yesterday I gave a lecture entitled ‘Earth: Re-grounding Geopolitics’, and today there was a seminar on my work – particularly ‘Land, Terrain, Territory’ and ‘How should we do the history of … Continue reading →

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Interview with Adrian Johnston on Transcendental Materialism

Peter Gratton interviews Adrian Johnston on the Society and Space open site.

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Bradley Garrett’s urban pictures in The Atlantic

Most of these are in Explore Everything, so this photo story in The Atlantic is a good visual taste of what that excellent book offers…

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Books received – Indiana University press sale

Three books by or about Heidegger, and Colin Koopman’s Genealogy as Critique.

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Sloterdijk’s Nietzsche Apostle forthcoming

Forthcoming with Semiotext(e), translated by Steve Corcoran, Sloterdijk’s Nietzsche Apostle. For Peter Sloterdijk, Friedrich Nietzsche represents nothing short of a “catastrophe in the history of language”—a new evangelist for a linguistics of narcissistic jubilation. Nietzsche offered a philosophical declaration of … Continue reading →

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From Geo-metrics to Geo-politics – Waterloo to Zurich

I’ll be giving a version of the talk I recently gave at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Zurich tomorrow. (I note that William Walters, who I met for the first time at the Balsillie School, … Continue reading →

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CFP – Asia on the move: unpacking cross-border mobilities

Call for Papers: Inaugural Association of Asian Studies-in-ASIA Conference. July 17-19 2014. Singapore Session Title Asia on the move: unpacking cross-border mobilities Cross-border mobilities are proliferating in Asia. From Hong Kong to Shenzhen, from Beijing to Tokyo, the region now … Continue reading →

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On Deleuze and Zapatismo: An Interview with Thomas Nail at critical-theory.com

Thomas Nail is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Denver. His most recent book is Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo from Edinburgh University Press. You can read the first fifty pages of that book here. Nail … Continue reading →

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