Category Archives: Books

Julian Barnes on being a bibliophile

Posted on June 30, 2012 by stuartelden

In The Guardian: I have lived in books, for books, by and with books; in recent years, I have been fortunate enough to be able to live from books. And it was through books that I first realised there were other … Continue reading →

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Next things to do

Posted on June 26, 2012 by stuartelden

The manuscript for The Birth of Territory, the image files and all the permissions paperwork went to University of Chicago Press yesterday. Of course, there are still copy-editing queries, proofs, index, cover discussions, marketing questionnaires and so on to come, but … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory – final revisions

Posted on June 17, 2012 by stuartelden

Over the past several weeks I’ve been working hard on the final stages of revision of The Birth of Territory manuscript. Some of this has been responding to referee reports; some to my own thoughts on returning to the manuscript … Continue reading →

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Critical Climate Change

Posted on June 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Intriguing new series of books from Open Humanities Press. Details here. Open Humanities Press is pleased to launch a new series in literary and cultural theory published in conjunction with the University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office. Each Critical … Continue reading →

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Aux frontières de l’animal

Posted on June 7, 2012 by stuartelden

The book itself – edited by Annik Dubied, Juliet J. Fall, David Gerber – is in French, but here’s a paragraph in English describing it. More details here. This edited volume brings together a diversity of viewpoints on human-animal relationships … Continue reading →

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The Space of the World

Posted on June 5, 2012 by stuartelden

A la limite, le problème qui se pose c’est celui des rapports de la pensée à la culture : comment se fait-il que la pensée ait un lieu dans l’espace du monde, qu’elle y ait comme une origine, et qu’elle … Continue reading →

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Verso’s reading list – ‘Against Patriotism, Against Monarchy’

Posted on June 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Are you drowning in deluded celebrations of a reactionary political system, a country facing economic collapse and a sporting spectacle sucking funds from our welfare system? Are you disgusted by pleas for everyone to ‘pull together in this time of … Continue reading →

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Marking finished

Posted on May 27, 2012 by stuartelden

Finally finished marking. Over the past month or so it’s been a lot of essays; 10 dissertations on topics from Portuguese music to Terry Pratchett novels to the war on terror; and 180 exam papers. These have been interspersed with quite … Continue reading →

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Patience (After Sebald)

Posted on May 27, 2012 by stuartelden

An interesting, though slow, documentary film taking W.G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn as its basis. Rings of Saturnwas the first of Sebald’s books I read, and since I grew up in East Anglia – born in Ipswich and relatives there … Continue reading →

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Alexandra Hall – Border Watch

Posted on May 20, 2012 by stuartelden

And via Carceral Geography (also mentioned by Peter), news that my former Durham colleague Alex Hall’s new book Border Watch is listed on the Pluto website – due out in July. Questions over immigration and asylum face almost all Western countries. … Continue reading →

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