Category Archives: Books

The Epic Mode and Territory

Posted on January 28, 2012 by stuartelden

This is a question I received that I can’t answer – anyone reading this have a sense of whether this has been done, is possible, or plausible? The request comes from Joel Gladd (jgladd@wisc.edu) but do please reply through comments. … Continue reading →

Posted in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Territory, The Birth of Territory | 4 Comments

Air-Target and the Politics of Verticality

Posted on January 20, 2012 by stuartelden

Some very interesting looking pieces in a recent issue of Theory, Culture and Society – thanks to Oliver Belcher for the link. Will be good reading for my ‘volume’ work. Peter Adey, Mark Whitehead, and Alison J. Williams, “Introduction: Air-target: Distance, … Continue reading →

Posted in Derek Gregory, Politics, Territory, The Space of the World | Leave a comment

Anthology Chapters and Editing Books

Posted on January 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has an interesting post on problems with writing anthology chapters. His problems can be summarised as lack of citation relative to journal articles, and hence a perceived lack of readership; and the long delays from submission to publication. No … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Publishing | 6 Comments

Moving house, unpacking my library

Posted on January 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Right after the holiday, I moved house. This explains the irregular posts here, and the backlog of emails, especially for the journal. No matter how clear I made it on the phone to the removal company, they still didn’t seem … Continue reading →

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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 →

Posted in Books, Cycling, Martin Heidegger, Novels read, Stephen Greenblatt, Umberto Eco, William Shakespeare | 5 Comments

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 →

Posted in Books, My Publications, Peter Sloterdijk | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Conferences, Derek Gregory, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, Stephen Graham, The Space of the World | Leave a comment

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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