Author Archives: stuartelden

Audio files of lectures on Foucault’s 82-83 course

Posted on December 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Audio files of lectures on Foucault’s 82-83 course on The Government of Self and Others are available here. This was a workshop at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, now at Kingston, on 2nd December 2010.

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Sloterdijk – Neither Sun nor Death delayed

Posted on December 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Neither Sun nor Death – the volume of interviews with Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs – still doesn’t appear to be out, despite being scheduled for November. The title comes from the claim that neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a … Continue reading →

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Human Remains

Posted on December 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Conference session organised by Paul Harrison (paul.harrison@durham.ac.uk) and John Wylie – reposted from crit-geog-forum Paper Session at the 4th Nordic Geographers Meeting “Geographical Knowledge, Nature and Practice” ENSPAC, Roskilde University, Denmark. 24.–27. May 2011 Human Remains: the place of the … Continue reading →

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Reactions to Terror and Territory

Posted on December 8, 2010 by stuartelden

A generous post commenting on Terror and Territory, by Devin Shaw, can be found here. Very generous: it claims that my account of sovereignty is “more nuanced than Agamben’s”; and that for a take on the rhetoric of the neo-cons, … Continue reading →

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The Political Philosophy of Julian Assange

Posted on December 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Peter Ludlow has written an analysis of Assange, available through the Leiter Reports blog: I’ve organized my summary of his position into three parts.  First, I’ll look at his view of what conspiracies are and how they are formed.  Second, … Continue reading →

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Further Reading

Posted on December 7, 2010 by stuartelden

More books received recently… Jeppe Strandsbjerg, Territory, Globalisation and International Relations: The Cartographic Reality of Space – I wrote an endorsement for this, and it’s good to see it out. Needless to say it is highly recommended. Nathan Widder, Reflections on … Continue reading →

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ALGC conference – Aberystwyth

Posted on December 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Speaking of Connolly, he is the keynote speaker at this conference – I spoke at the one earlier this yearand it’s highly recommended as an interesting intellectual space. The 9th Aberystwyth-Lancaster Graduate Colloquium 2nd- 4th June 2011 Department of International … Continue reading →

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Connolly’s World

Posted on December 6, 2010 by stuartelden

An exciting looking new book by William E. Connolly, A World of Becoming, is forthcoming, apparently this month. Full details here, but here’s the description. In A World of Becoming William E. Connolly outlines a political philosophy suited to a world … Continue reading →

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Kirsch and Flint (eds.), Reconstructing Conflict

Posted on December 6, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve just finished reading the manuscript of Scott Kirsch & Colin Flint (eds.), Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies  forthcoming with Ashgate in 2011. I was asked to write an endorsement which I was pleased to do. It has a number … Continue reading →

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Speculations II – call for papers

Posted on December 5, 2010 by stuartelden

Speculations, a journal for speculative realist thought, invites submissions for its second volume. Given the intrinsically open and unconstrained nature of the arena for speculative thought which Speculations aims at embodying — and in view of the favourable reception of … Continue reading →

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