Author Archives: stuartelden

Remember these?

Posted on May 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Offprints of my article ‘How should we do the history of territory?’ in the new journal Territory, Politics, Governance – I can’t remember the last time I had paper offprints rather than a pdf. Some journals don’t even give you … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on May 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Another few books received – Mark Blyth’s Austerity; Paul Virilio’s The Art of the Motor; Audrea Lim’s collection The Case for Sanctions Against Israel; the new issue of Geographica Helvetica; and two manuscripts to review.

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The Birth of Territory endorsements

Posted on May 16, 2013 by stuartelden

As The Birth of Territory inches towards publication, the University of Chicago Press page now has three endorsements for the book. Neil Brenner, Harvard University “Stuart Elden has written a pathbreaking book on a foundational concept in modern political and … Continue reading →

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advert – Journal of Urban Cultural Studies [and other new Intellect journals]

Posted on May 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
Finalizing material for issue 1.1, and working on 1.2!

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Leibniz archive

Posted on May 16, 2013 by stuartelden

A very interesting post by Stephen Wolfram about working in the Leibniz archive, with plenty of photographs of his manuscripts (via Leiter Reports).

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Henri Lefebvre by Chris Butler

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Purcell on Butler on Lefebvre.

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Badiou on Beckett – freely available book pdf

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Alain Badiou’s book On Beckett, translated by Nina Power and Alberto Toscano, available as a free pdf download here.

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Hacking – Pluto, Plutocrats & Plutonium

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Thanks to Elliot Jarbe for the link – Ian Hacking recently gave a lecture in Berlin which elaborated on the Pluto theme. Details here. Elliot asks if anyone knows the link to the audio recording – please add as a … Continue reading →

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Ian Hacking in Northumbria

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

As a break from marking and catching up on journal work and email, I headed up the A1 to Newcastle to hear Ian Hacking speak at the University of Northumbria. I really like his early books The Emergence of Probability … Continue reading →

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How not to talk about resilience?

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Radical Philosophy has recently been the venue for a short exchange of views on the topic of resilience. Let’s see what was said. Mark Neocleous led off with a piece on “resisting resilience.” In his view, “resilience…

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