Author Archives: stuartelden

Middlesex philosophy lecturer job

Posted on August 23, 2010 by stuartelden

Yes, really. All the details are here – http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABO084/lecturer-in-philosophy/ I was going to write something in response – ten month post, very quickly into teaching, the context, etc. – but Christine Battersby has said it all on the Philosophy in Europe list … Continue reading →

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New blog – Open Geography

Posted on August 23, 2010 by stuartelden

Jeremy Crampton has a new blog – Open Geography, where “open is an adjective and a verb”… He’s already posted a few things on Wikileaks, Foucault and the ‘Ground Zero mosque’.

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Roundup – publishing

Posted on August 22, 2010 by stuartelden

A couple of links of interest that both relate to academic publishing and the modern university Ian Bogost on Rice University Press being closed down and on the different printing models in publishing here (via Graham at OOP). Stanley Fish arguing … Continue reading →

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Leibniz on Fossils

Posted on August 21, 2010 by stuartelden

In The Shorter Leibniz Texts, edited by Lloyd Strickland, there are a few interesting excerpts from Leibniz’s writings on fossils. (See also Strickland’s translations of Leibniz site here.) Some of these come from the Protegaea, which was published in a bi-lingual … Continue reading →

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Hardt on Foucault

Posted on August 20, 2010 by stuartelden

Michael Hardt reviews Foucault’s 82-83 and 83-84 lecture courses – Le gouvernement de soi et des autres and Le courage de la vérité – in the latest New Left Review. Find it here – subscribers only. Most of the first half of the review … Continue reading →

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Incomplete Editions and References

Posted on August 19, 2010 by stuartelden

In Matthew Stewart’s very good account of Leibniz and Spinoza, The Courtier and the Heretic (Yale UP, 2005), there is a note in the bibliography that The standard, reference edition of Leibniz’s collected works is that of the Berlin Akademie. … Continue reading →

Posted in Eugen Fink, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gottfried Leibniz, Henri Lefebvre, Immanuel Kant, Kostas Axelos, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault | 4 Comments

‘Ground Zero Mosque’

Posted on August 18, 2010 by stuartelden

This needed to be done – photos of other things the same distance from the ‘Ground Zero’ site. The commentary below is almost unnecessary, but sadly needed to be said. Thanks to Nathan for alerting me to this. Update 10pm – … Continue reading →

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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

Posted on August 18, 2010 by stuartelden

An interesting looking conference – “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects in the Early Modern and Medieval Periods”, March 11-2 2011, George Washington University.  Jane Bennett is the keynote. Details here.

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Updates to talks

Posted on August 18, 2010 by stuartelden

A bit more detail on talks in the autumn here. The programme of the Nijmegen Humboldt lectures is here; and the Radical Philosophy Association draft conference programme is here.

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Shelving Books

Posted on August 18, 2010 by stuartelden

Scu at Critical Animal asks about shelving books. It reminded me of Walter Benjamin’s piece on unpacking his library, which is in Illuminations. I’ve now got so many books that if I don’t organise them I can never find anything. … Continue reading →

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