Category Archives: Books

Political Theology and Early Modernity

Posted on May 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting looking collection edited by Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton, with a postface by Etienne Balibar. Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and … Continue reading →

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Books, Carl Schmitt, Etienne Balibar, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Walter Benjamin, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Political Geology: Stratigraphies of Power

Posted on May 5, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ll be speaking at a conference on Political Geology: Stratigraphies of Power on 21 June at Lancaster University  – I’ll be giving an abbreviated version of the ‘Fossils’ paper I gave in Canberra and Macau last year. Thanks to Kathryn Yusoff … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Elizabeth Grosz, Felix Guattari, Fossils, Gilles Deleuze, The Space of the World | 4 Comments

Contemporary Political Theory review of Terror and Territory

Posted on April 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Terror and territory: The spatial extent of sovereignty is reviewed by Jonathan Havercroft here. (It appears to require a subscription; though the journal has announced book reviews are now open access.) It is an overall positive review, though it is critical of … Continue reading →

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Improper Life – Timothy Campbell

Posted on April 23, 2012 by stuartelden

 Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben – recently out with University of Minnesota Press. The book discusses, between Heidegger and Agamben, Michel Foucault, Roberto Esposito, and Peter Sloterdijk. Campbell is one of the translators of Esposito, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Giorgio Agamben, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, Roberto Esposito | Leave a comment

Secure the Volume – Kentucky video

Posted on April 17, 2012 by stuartelden

The video of my presentation at the University of Kentucky. [Update: the higher resolution version has replaced the earlier one] The slides are somewhat blurred and the audience questions quiet, but may be of interest.

Posted in Boundaries, Conferences, Eyal Weizman, Jeremy Crampton, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Paul Virilio, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Stephen Graham, Territory, Terror and Territory | 13 Comments

Technologies of Bordering – Yale audio

Posted on April 14, 2012 by stuartelden

The audio of my presentation at the Yale conference – nothing especially new for people who know my work on territory already; and especially this piece – but may be of interest to some. Apologies for the noise in a … Continue reading →

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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

Posted on April 12, 2012 by stuartelden

David Harvey’s new book is out – my copy was sent to Durham so I’ve not yet seen it. There is a review by Owen Hatherley here; and Harvey talks about the book here.

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Matt Hannah interview on Dark Territory

Posted on April 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Interview about his book Dark Territory in the Information Age: Learning from the West German Census Boycotts of the 1980s at Exploring Geopolitics. Part one and follow the link at the end for part two.

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Gunnar Olsson on Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on April 10, 2012 by stuartelden

A detailed and very generous review (which becomes much more) of Reading Kant’s Geography by Gunnar Olsson in Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography (requires subscription): So hot are the connections between the geography/anthropology courses and Kant’s overall philosophy that the … Continue reading →

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Reading suggestions

Posted on April 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Thanks for the suggestions in comments. Some very good ideas that should keep me busy – but clear that there are so many good things to read that I won’t be doing much re-reading… I won’t be following up on … Continue reading →

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