Category Archives: Books

Babette Babich on the books that inspired her

Posted on December 3, 2012 by stuartelden

At the LSE blog, Babette Babich discusses the books that inspired her – wide-ranging and fascinating reading. Babette Babich is an American philosopher known for her studies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, and Hölderlin as well as for her work in … Continue reading →

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Books I’ve read and plan to read

Posted on December 2, 2012 by stuartelden

A book meme I took from Rob Kitchin’s The View from the Blue House and first answered a year ago. As before I’ve largely answered in relation to non-academic reading… The book I’m currently reading? Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Territories in Oxford – audio available

Posted on November 24, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve posted the audio recording of my talk to the 1887 Society, Mansfield College, University of Oxford from earlier this week. The first 18 minutes discuss my work on territory and the Shakespeare project in more general terms; the example in the … Continue reading →

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The Guardian’s Books of the Year

Posted on November 24, 2012 by stuartelden

2012’s Books of the Year, in The Guardian. Contributors include Adichie, Armitage, Byatt, Franzen, Paxman and Žižek. Ideas for Christmas or New Year reading, especially as some of these will be out in paperback soon. (The list of 2011 books is … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Territories – Durham and Oxford

Posted on November 21, 2012 by stuartelden

Last week I talked about the Shakespearean Territories project at the Politicised Literary Geographies workshop in Durham. Angharad Closs Stephens, Carolyn Pedwell and James Kneale were the other speakers. The whole event was recorded and we hope to make that … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory – copy-editing done

Posted on November 18, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve just finished checking through all the queries with the copy-editing of the manuscript of The Birth of Territory. This must have been quite a job, given the length of the manuscript and the number of foreign words and references. … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on November 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Chris Butler’s book on Lefebvre; Conley’s Spatial Ecologies; Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography (can’t quite believe I actually bought this); Campe’s The Game of Probability; first edition of Lindberg, The Beginning of Western Science (thanks Nick); a second-hand copy of … Continue reading →

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Romney’s Project for a New American Century

Posted on November 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Romney’s team prepared a website to launch if he’d won the election. I don’t blame him for being prepared, though rather embarassing that it leaked. Political Wire has some images. Interesting to see the idea of the ‘American century’ coming up … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Territories – Durham, Oxford, York

Posted on November 7, 2012 by stuartelden

I’m giving various talks on my Shakespearean Territories project over the next few months. In November, I’ll be speaking in my own department at a workshop on Politicised Literary Geographies, and then to the 1887 Society at Mansfield College, University … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on October 23, 2012 by stuartelden

A pile of books from Stanford UP in recompense for review work, mainly Agamben ones I didn’t have before, a couple of novels, the new issue of Society and Space, and two books by Durham authors (that I need to … Continue reading →

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