Category Archives: Books

Now only 1056 pages – Žižek’s Hegel book

Posted on April 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Graham Harman on the latest details of Žižek’s Hegel book. You can find the table of contents of Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism here. The Verso page is here.

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Simon Critchley – The Faith of the Faithless and reading

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

via the Verso blog, an interview with Simon Critchley which mentions Obama and the Occupy movement, and a list of some of the books that inspired his latest book, The Faith of the Faithless.

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Graham Harman on Tristan Garcia

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Substantial review essay of Forme et objet here

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The Birth of Territory reactions

Posted on March 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Many thanks for all the kind words in person, by email, on the blog, or on facebook to the news about the publisher for The Birth of Territory. I also appreciated Teo Ballvé’s comments at Territorial Masquerades – One nice … Continue reading →

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Companion to Critical Geopolitics

Posted on March 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Gerard Toal has news of The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics, edited by Klaus Dodds, Joanne Sharp and Merje Kuus, forthcoming with Ashgate. I’m sceptical of the need for yet more companions, guidebooks, handbooks, etc. but this looks carefully … Continue reading →

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Kentucky Social Theory lecture

Posted on March 31, 2012 by stuartelden

The lecture was yesterday, and seemed to be well received. It was a busy day – an interview with the graduate student journal disClosure, a lunch with the faculty teaching the Social Theory seminar, the lecture itself, followed by questions, … Continue reading →

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Quentin Meillassoux – The Number and the Siren

Posted on March 29, 2012 by stuartelden

Meillassoux’s second book is forthcoming with Urbanomic in May, translated by Robin MacKay. Details here.  

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The Birth of Territory – University of Chicago Press, 2013

Posted on March 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Finally got the news I’ve been waiting for – my book The Birth of Territory has just received final approval and will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2013, hopefully in the spring. It’s been a long … Continue reading →

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Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power

Posted on March 24, 2012 by stuartelden

For the past several days I’ve been writing – and almost as importantly, working with the images for – my lecture for Kentucky. At the moment it looks like it will cover… Area, Volume, Territory, Boundedness, the Volumetric, Political Technology, … Continue reading →

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Kentucky poster

Posted on March 23, 2012 by stuartelden

Nice poster for my talk in Kentucky next week – you can see the earlier ones for Michael Hardt and Russ Castronovo, and the series as a whole, here.

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