Author Archives: stuartelden

AUFS review of Taubes, To Carl Schmitt

Posted on May 6, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned the new translation of Jacob Taubes’s letters to Carl Schmitt before. The book is reviewed here.

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back in Jerusalem

Posted on May 4, 2013 by stuartelden

I’m back in Jerusalem, staying in the historic Jerusalem hotel in the east of the city, only a few minutes walk from Damascus gate. This is the first time I’ve been back since 2009. The reason I’m here is that … Continue reading →

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Stiegler and Technics

Posted on May 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Stiegler and Technics, edited by Christina Howells and Gerald Moore, is due out in September with Edinburgh University Press.

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two human geography lecturer posts at Durham

Posted on May 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Details here.

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Thinking Memory Through Space – conference in London

Posted on May 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Conference in July in London – full details here.

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Border choreography, bare bodies, and penal states

Posted on May 3, 2013 by stuartelden

A commentary on borders and bodies at the Society and Space open site.

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Walter Benjamin, Pedagogy and the Politics of Youth

Posted on May 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Pedagogy & the Inhumanities:
Friday 31st May – Saturday 1st June 2013 University of Westminster, London Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW Co-hosted by the Institute for Modern & Contemporary Culture (IMCC) and the Centre for Research…

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David Morris, A Sense of Space – now in paperback

Posted on May 3, 2013 by stuartelden

David Morris’s book A Sense of Space, in the excellent SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy, is now available in paperback. A phenomenological account of spatial perception in relation to the lived body. The Sense of Space brings together space … Continue reading →

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The camp and geographical imaginations

Posted on May 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
Last Thursday, the last full day of my visit to Ostrava, Tomas took me to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in the Polish town of Oswiecim: I’m still trying to come to terms with…

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Terricide and Terracide

Posted on May 1, 2013 by stuartelden

Developing the work on the concept of ‘earth’ that I am currently undertaking, my RGS-IBG paper this year is on ‘Terricide‘, a concept taken from Henri Lefebvre’s De l’État. In De l’État, Lefebvre suggests (Vol I, p. 39) that he takes … Continue reading →

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