Category Archives: Books

Scales of the Earth

Posted on March 25, 2011 by stuartelden

New Geographies 4, Scales of the Earth, edited by El Hadi Jazairy, is now available. The first Apollo images of the Earth have produced a perspective enabling humanity to act on Earth and its nature as if it controlled it from … Continue reading →

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Tasmania and Territory

Posted on March 18, 2011 by stuartelden

Just about to leave to go to Tasmania. I am giving a talk on The Birth of Territory on Monday, but have the weekend there first. I spent three very happy months as a visiting scholar at the University of … Continue reading →

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Books on the boil

Posted on March 16, 2011 by stuartelden

There has been a bit of a collision between different book projects recently… We received the revised final proofs of Reading Kant’s Geography, which still had mistakes, including some that had been pointed out on the original final proofs. We … Continue reading →

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Sydney talks

Posted on March 11, 2011 by stuartelden

The University of Western Sydney talk went well, eventually. Things started to go wrong at the airport, when the first plane I was on had a fuel leak and was cancelled. Then the second, rebooked, flight was delayed. Then the computer … Continue reading →

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Off to Sydney

Posted on March 9, 2011 by stuartelden

Just about to head to Sydney to give talks at the University of Western Sydney and the University of New South Wales. Both will be on ‘The Birth of Territory’. The very different audiences – the Centre for Cultural Research at … Continue reading →

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Reading about fossils

Posted on March 4, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve been spending the last week, as expected, reading about fossils. This has taken me through Aristotle, Georgius Agricola, Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Hooke, Niels Stensen, Benoît de Maillet, Leibniz, Buffon, Voltaire, James Hutton, Georges Cuvier, Kant and Charles Lyell. Some of … Continue reading →

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Fossils: Age, World, Relation

Posted on March 1, 2011 by stuartelden

This is the title of the talk I’ll be giving at ANU in four weeks time. The Humanities Research Centre theme for this year is ‘The World and World-Making in Humanities and the Arts’. The draft abstract follows:- What do fossils … Continue reading →

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Reading at ANU

Posted on February 25, 2011 by stuartelden

Since I arrived here I’ve been doing quite a lot of reading, as I am at that interesting stage of a new project where you have a few ideas and begin following promising leads. Some of them, of course, turn … Continue reading →

Posted in David N. Livingstone, Fossils, Gilles Deleuze, Klaus Theweleit, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, The Space of the World, Wendy Brown, William E Connolly | 1 Comment

Territory and Geopolitics discussion

Posted on February 18, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting discussion session with Matt Sparke in Singapore yesterday. We discussed chapter 5 from Matt’s 2005 book In the Space of Theory, the intro to my Terror and Territory, and the ‘Land, Terrain, Territory’ piece. Henry Yeung was as ever a … Continue reading →

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The Space of the World 2009

Posted on February 16, 2011 by stuartelden

Here’s the initial project proposal I wrote in 2009 for the work I’m now beginning to think about more seriously. Globalisation remains a significant research topic across the social sciences and humanities. Yet despite attention within geography, a coherent analysis … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Eugen Fink, Henri Lefebvre, Kostas Axelos, Peter Sloterdijk, Quentin Meillassoux, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World | 2 Comments