Category Archives: Books

Rereading novels

Posted on April 9, 2012 by stuartelden

The Guardian has a couple of features on rereading novels – a piece discussing it here, and some contemporary authors’ favourite novels to re-read here. This isn’t something I do very often with novels. I did when younger but now I … Continue reading →

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Palgrave Pivot

Posted on April 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Palgrave Macmillan is delighted to announce a new imprint: Palgrave Pivot. Launching globally in Autumn 2012 and publishing across the Humanities and Social Sciences, Palgrave Pivot liberates scholarship from the straitjacket of traditional formats and business models. It offers authors … Continue reading →

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review of New Geographies 4: Scales of the Earth

Posted on April 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Nice review of this project, here – New Geographies, a publication series initiated and edited by six doctoral candidates at the Harvard Graduate School of Design… Distancing itself from conventional positions and professional boundaries, the journal collects critical essays and … Continue reading →

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Historical Materialism books to review

Posted on April 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Long list of books, in multiple languages, for review in Historical Materialism here.

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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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