Category Archives: Books

University of Minnesota Press books received

Posted on August 10, 2012 by stuartelden

I did some review work for University of Minnesota Press – lots of nice new books received in recompense (plus two on order).

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Difficult Books

Posted on August 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Publishers Weekly has a list of ten of the most difficult books to read. Heidegger and Hegel make the list, but it is dominated by fiction. Worth it, for me at least, because it links to the original list and discussion … Continue reading →

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Verso’s Olympic reading list

Posted on August 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Some of these are a bit of a stretch, but many good books here. Marc Perelman’s recent Barbaric Sport: A Global Plague looks intriguingly polemical.

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Shakespearean Territories – taking shape?

Posted on July 31, 2012 by stuartelden

While in Nigeria I was working on a book proposal for the Shakespearean Territories project, interspersed with re-reading some of the plays that were on my potential list to be included. It’s now looking something like this: Divided Territories: The … Continue reading →

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Taking Stock – The Space of the World project

Posted on July 31, 2012 by stuartelden

I mentioned in the last post that I was unsure where I was going with my The Space of the World project. Part of the reason for this is that I’ve now been rejected on three grant applications to help … Continue reading →

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2013 publications

Posted on July 31, 2012 by stuartelden

There will be three journal articles out in 2013, along with The Birth of Territory. Two of the articles are related to that book, but take arguments in different directions and link to future projects on Shakespeare and Foucault. The third links … Continue reading →

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Speculative Realism book series – new titles

Posted on July 26, 2012 by stuartelden

Graham Harman’s blog notes that three new titles have been contracted for the  Speculative Realism series he edits for Edinburgh University Press. Levi R. Bryant, Onto-Cartographies: An Ontology of Space and Time Jon Cogburn, After Quietism: Analytic Philosophies of Immanence … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory production updates

Posted on July 13, 2012 by stuartelden

University of Chicago Press have given me an update on the production of The Birth of Territory. Some good news – they (crucially marketing) have agreed to the title. This might seem a strange thing, given that they have been in … Continue reading →

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Back from Edinburgh

Posted on July 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Good few days in Edinburgh, with a chance to catch up with old friends, though the rotten weather didn’t show the city at its finest. The ‘Bodies in Movement’ seminar on Coriolanus went well, with some really excellent responses from Paul … Continue reading →

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Novels read in 2012 (so far)

Posted on June 30, 2012 by stuartelden

As with last year (part one, part two), these are the novels or ‘non-fiction but close’ books I’ve read – basically things I read as a break of sorts from work… Many of these were inspired by comments on posts … Continue reading →

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