Category Archives: Books

Macau developments

Posted on May 16, 2011 by stuartelden

A small but interested audience today for the talk on fossils – final day of exams, so not good timing. In the questions I said a bit more about the thinking behind the book project. It’s also been good to have another … Continue reading →

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Leaving Canberra

Posted on May 14, 2011 by stuartelden

I fly to Hong Kong in the morning, and then get the ferry direct to Macau. I’m very sorry to leave Canberra and the ANU. I’ve had a great time here, and Canberra has felt like home. The HRC was a great … Continue reading →

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World, Territory, Space workshop

Posted on May 11, 2011 by stuartelden

The workshop/Masterclass was held today. A good group of about 15, discussing four of my texts around the themes of ‘world, territory, space’ (details and links here). We discussed the use of spatial/geographical terms in and beyond Geography; the relation … Continue reading →

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Territory: Conceptual, Political, Historical

Posted on May 10, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ll be giving a talk at the Hong Kong Baptist University on 18th May. Because the audience will be mixed between faculty and students, I’ve been asked to be more general and so this will give me a chance to … Continue reading →

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Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events

Posted on April 25, 2011 by stuartelden

Free e-book – Momentarily: Learning From Mega Events, available here. Strategic, simplified, spotless, homogenizing representations require a pluralistic response which engages the visual tactically. Unlike the image of Vancouver, the project’s category-defying qualities are not clear-cut nor easily pinned down. … Continue reading →

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World-Territory-Space

Posted on April 19, 2011 by stuartelden

I’m leading a ‘masterclass’ workshop here at the ANU on 11 May (moved from an earlier date of 28 April), with the title of ‘World-Territory-Space’. I’m reluctant to call it a masterclass, but that’s how it’s being billed. Here’s the … Continue reading →

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Miéville and Bryant

Posted on April 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting review of China Miéville’s The City and the City in The Boston Review (via Crooked Timber). Levi Bryant discusses his next book project The Domestication of Humans: A Prolegomena to Posthumanist Sociology, here. The link? Both touch on themes I … Continue reading →

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Not going to the AAG

Posted on April 11, 2011 by stuartelden

As I’ve written in lots of personal emails recently, no, I’m not going to the AAG in Seattle. The main reason is that I wanted to make the most of Australia, which I am visiting for only the second time, rather than … Continue reading →

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Agnew, Elden, Nelson review essay

Posted on March 28, 2011 by stuartelden

In the International Studies Review, a thoughtful review essay by Thomas J. Rubeck of John Agnew’s Globalization and Sovereignty; my Terror and Territory; and Scott Nelson’s Sovereignty and the Limits of the Liberal Imagination. A few excerpts on Terror and … Continue reading →

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Fossils talk, and revised abstract

Posted on March 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Four weeks ago I posted the abstract of the talk I will be giving tomorrow at the Humanities Research Centre here at ANU. That abstract was written at time when I had a vague sense of what I was going … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Fossils, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Michel Foucault, The Space of the World | 1 Comment