Category Archives: Books

Territory book update

Posted on October 9, 2010 by stuartelden

Last week felt like a really important step forward with The Birth of Territory manuscript. This week has been less dramatic, but good progress again. The discussion of Grotius and Selden now forms a brief coda to Chapter Seven which … Continue reading →

Posted in Hugo Grotius, John Locke, Martin Luther, Nicholas of Cusa, Robert Filmer, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Walter Benjamin | 2 Comments

Chapter Nine

Posted on October 1, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been trying to concentrate on writing this week. My plan was to have a complete draft of all the chapters to take with me to Seattle, and that’s only about two weeks away and Chapter Nine needed some serious … Continue reading →

Posted in Bogislaw Philipp von Chemnitz, Gottfried Leibniz, Nicholas of Cusa, Samuel Pufendorf, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Theodor Reinking | 2 Comments

Territory book progress

Posted on September 23, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been making slow but steady progress on chapter nine of my territory book. A lot of this has been checking minor details in libraries, including original language sources such as the Latin for a few quotes from Newton’s Principia … Continue reading →

Posted in Andreas Knichen, Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Bogislaw Philipp von Chemnitz, Gottfried Leibniz, Henri de Boulainviller, Isaac Newton, James Harrington, Jean Bodin, Johannes Althusius, Johannes Hertius, Martin Luther, Michel Foucault, Philipp Melanchthon, Samuel Pufendorf, Territory, The Birth of Territory | 3 Comments

Why we write

Posted on September 21, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been thinking a bit more about Graham’s post on being productive. He notes that the majority of his recent pieces have been in response to requests or commissions to write. Looking my last five years of publications, it’s clear … Continue reading →

Posted in My Publications, Publishing, The Birth of Territory | 2 Comments

Ron Johnston on Terror and Territory

Posted on September 20, 2010 by stuartelden

Nice review by Ron Johnston of my Terror and Territory book in Environment and Planning A. From the conclusion –    The events of the last decade have stimulated a wealth of responses from academics for whom geopolitical issues have presented … Continue reading →

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Leaving Nijmegen

Posted on September 10, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ll be leaving Nijmegen early in the morning to head back to London. The Alexander von Humboldt lecture seemed to be well received. It didn’t go quite as smoothly as I wanted but it was well attended and there were … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Gottfried Leibniz, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Travel | 1 Comment

A few shorter pieces

Posted on September 7, 2010 by stuartelden

There will be a few shorter pieces coming out in the next several months. A piece on Lefebvre’s theory of moments, and his work on time more generally, for a book project entitled Learning from Vancouver. This seems an interesting … Continue reading →

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Library

Posted on September 6, 2010 by stuartelden

A pretty productive day in the libraries – Senate House and Warburg. I managed to track down a large number of the Leibniz references, although inevitably there were a few deadends. I also need to reread one text as I … Continue reading →

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Leibniz

Posted on September 5, 2010 by stuartelden

Anyone who’s been reading this blog recently knows that I’ve been working on Leibniz, and little else, for the past few weeks. I can’t stress enough the difficulties I’m encountering in this work.  Part of the problem is that – … Continue reading →

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Badiou, Meillassoux and worlds

Posted on September 3, 2010 by stuartelden

Very interesting post from Graham Harman about the Badiou/Meillassoux relation (both father and son). It’s most relevant for me given that my next project is on the idea of ‘world’ in a range of forms. L’inexistence divine was going to … Continue reading →

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