Category Archives: Books

Details of Berkeley and Tucson lectures

Posted on September 12, 2011 by stuartelden

14 September 2011 – “How should we do the history of territory?” Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, USA (details) 16 September 2011 – ”How should we do the history of territory?” School of Geography and Development, University of … Continue reading →

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Sensualising Deformity – Call for papers

Posted on September 12, 2011 by stuartelden

This could be interesting. Sensualising Deformity: Communication and Construction of Monstrous Embodiment, at the University of Edinburgh, June 15-16 2012. The link takes you to the call for papers, and they have a linked blog. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is one of … Continue reading →

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Afghanistan and the War on Terror – Ten Years On

Posted on September 6, 2011 by stuartelden

Wednesday 5th October – public meeting Afghanistan and the War on Terror – Ten Years On 7pm, Herschel Building, Lecture Theatre 1 Newcastle University, UK SPEAKERS Lindsey German – National Convenor of Stop the War Coalition since 2001, co-author of … Continue reading →

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Lectures on Foucault

Posted on September 1, 2011 by stuartelden

I give two different lectures on Foucault this month. One is at the Radical Foucault conference in London (8th-9th Sept), and then the second is given at both UC Berkeley and University of Arizona the following week. The paper for … Continue reading →

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Books/Publishing

Posted on August 30, 2011 by stuartelden

Over at Brian Leiter’s blog, there is a discussion about publishing books. The initial questions are asked by a philosopher, but they are fairly generic for humanities/social sciences. My response to the questions would be something like this. I’ve included … Continue reading →

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Book Series news

Posted on August 29, 2011 by stuartelden

Speculative Heresy has news of a book series on biopolitics and community with Fordham University Press. It is edited by Timothy Campbell, and looks like it will mainly comprise translations, with forthcoming titles including ones by Jean-Luc Nancy and Roberto Esposito. … Continue reading →

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Perry Anderson on the historical novel

Posted on August 25, 2011 by stuartelden

Fairly interesting piece in the London Review of Books – discussing the differences between Lukács and Jameson’s Marxist accounts of the historical novel and examples such as Tolstoy, Scott, Lampedusa and Dumas.

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Tyneside Stop the War events

Posted on August 22, 2011 by stuartelden

From the Tyneside Stop the War coalition: The tenth anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan on October 6th 2001 is fast approaching… …and Tyneside Stop the War is organising/supporting two events in early October 1. Wednesday 5th October – public … Continue reading →

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Colin McFarlane, Learning the City: Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage

Posted on August 12, 2011 by stuartelden

Colin McFarlane’s Learning the City: Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage is now out. From the publisher website: Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality of learning … Continue reading →

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“Sovereignty, Territory and the Imperium” – review essay by Karena Shaw

Posted on August 11, 2011 by stuartelden

An interesting review essay of John Agnew’s Globalization and Sovereignty; my Terror and Territory, and Ronnie D. Lipschutz’s The Constitution of Imperium has just appeared in Geopolitics (subscription required). Written by Karena Shaw of the School of Environmental Studies at the … Continue reading →

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