Category Archives: Books

Michael Eldred e-book

Posted on January 10, 2011 by stuartelden

Michael Eldred, Social Ontology : Recasting Political Philosophy Through a Phenomenology of Whoness, second edition, is now available as a free e-book here.

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Heidegger Among the Sculptors

Posted on January 9, 2011 by stuartelden

Just finished reading Andrew Mitchell, Heidegger Among the Sculptors: Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling. It’s an interesting read, discussing four places where Heidegger engages with sculpture and/or sculptors. This includes the best known piece ‘Art and Space’, inspired … Continue reading →

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Bookshelves

Posted on January 8, 2011 by stuartelden

This site is bound to please the bibliophiles out there…

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Graham Harman on Open Access Publishing

Posted on January 7, 2011 by stuartelden

Some interesting thoughts here, based on his experience with The Speculative Turn, and Prince of Networks. Much of this is undoubtedly right, and I think there is a lot of potential for these kinds of publishing outlets. 4-5,000 downloads of … Continue reading →

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Triptych, not a Trilogy

Posted on January 7, 2011 by stuartelden

On one the interesting things in the Wu Ming interview comes in the third section of the audio, where they describe their Manituana book as the first in a triptych, not a trilogy. The second is on the French Revolution. … Continue reading →

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Four out of six

Posted on January 4, 2011 by stuartelden

I should have noted in the earlier message that these were not just any six references, but included three or four of the most problematic in the book, which I’d not left to last through choice or neglect, but because … Continue reading →

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British Library references

Posted on January 4, 2011 by stuartelden

Back in one of my favourite places – the British Library rare books room. I’m spending a day here trying to wrap up the final few references to things I can’t easily get in other libraries. The references are to … Continue reading →

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Australia

Posted on January 3, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ll be in Australia between 19 February and 15 May this year, as a visiting fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. I will be spending a few days in Singapore on the way and Hong … Continue reading →

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Territorial Integrity

Posted on December 16, 2010 by stuartelden

A four part discussion of the notion of territorial integrity by Jamie Scudder can be found here (and follow the links at the end of each part). It makes quite a bit of use of my Terror and Territory and some … Continue reading →

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Land, Terrain, Territory

Posted on December 13, 2010 by stuartelden

It’s been up online for some time, but this article is now finally published, and you can find the version with page numbers etc. here. It’s strange that I wrote this as the first thing within my three-year Leverhulme major … Continue reading →

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