Category Archives: Books

Novels read in 2011 part 2

Posted on January 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Given the number of these that are not really novels, this list should probably be retitled ‘books I read that are not for work reasons…’ Not as many as the first half of the year, but that’s probably a product … Continue reading →

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End of 2011, and a look to 2012

Posted on January 7, 2012 by stuartelden

I meant to post this before I went offline for a couple of weeks for Christmas and a holiday in the Gambia, but didn’t do so. Anyway, it is a brief review of my 2011 and a look to 2012… … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Cricket, Cycling, Eduardo Mendieta, Immanuel Kant, My Publications, Peter Sloterdijk, Society and Space, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World, Travel | Leave a comment

Sloterdijk Now available

Posted on December 6, 2011 by stuartelden

Available at the Polity site, but Amazon UK has it for the discounted price of £11.99. Amazon.com doesn’t have it yet as the US release date is a little later. Google Books has quite a bit as a preview. If you … Continue reading →

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Kentucky-Harvard-Yale

Posted on December 5, 2011 by stuartelden

This has been a bit of a logistical challenge. I’m speaking in Kentucky to the Committee on Social Theory on March 30th. They’ve just sent me this nice poster advertising the series. I was also asked to speak at Yale … Continue reading →

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Secure the Volume abstract

Posted on December 3, 2011 by stuartelden

This is the abstract for the Kentucky Committee for Social Theory lecture (late March) and the Political Geography plenary lecture at the RGS-IBG conference in Edinburgh (early July). Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power We all-too-often … Continue reading →

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British Library Illuminated Manuscripts exhibition

Posted on November 26, 2011 by stuartelden

As I hadn’t had enough of old books, I also made time to go and see the new exhibition at the BL, on medieval illuminated manuscripts from the Royal Library. It’s remarkable and there is loads to see. More details … Continue reading →

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If you have a spare $5000

Posted on November 25, 2011 by stuartelden

A first edition of the Protogaea is for sale here.

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טריטוריה

Posted on November 16, 2011 by stuartelden

The Hebrew translation of my ‘Land, Terrain, Territory’ piece is now available in html or pdf. (You can read some earlier thoughts on the politics of translation concerning this process in an earlier post here.)

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A book reading meme

Posted on November 12, 2011 by stuartelden

A book meme I took from Rob Kitchin’s The View from the Blue House. I’ve largely answered in relation to non-academic reading… The book I’m currently reading? Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood The last book I finished? Thaisa Frank, Heidegger’s Glasses … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, China Mieville, Gottfried Leibniz, H.P. Lovecraft, Martin Heidegger, Peter Gratton, Umberto Eco, Wu Ming | 2 Comments

Elden, Gregory, Sevilla-Buitrago in ACME

Posted on November 12, 2011 by stuartelden

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, Vol 10 No 2 is now available. It includes the English version of a discussion between me, Derek Gregory and Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago that was originally published earlier this year in a Spanish translation: … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, David Harvey, David N. Livingstone, Derek Gregory, Henri Lefebvre, John Locke, Mapping the Present, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Politics, Publishing, Speaking Against Number, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World, Understanding Henri Lefebvre, Universities | Leave a comment