Category Archives: Books

Matthew Hannah reviews The Birth of Territory for The American Historical Review

Posted on February 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Matthew Hannah reviews The Birth of Territory for The American Historical Review (requires subscription). There are some quite sharp criticisms, but the overall take is fairly positive. I resisted attempts to tie periods where the historical record is patchy into … Continue reading →

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Posters and further details for UNSW lecture and workshop

Posted on February 18, 2015 by stuartelden

10 March, 4pm, “Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics”, School of Humanities and Languages, John Goodsell 221/223, University of New South Wales (website; poster) 11 March, 10-4pm, “Geopolitics, Geopower, Geometrics”, workshop, Room 101 LAW Building, University of New South Wales (website; poster).

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Contesting the Arctic: Rethinking Politics in the Circumpolar North by Philip E. Steinberg, Jeremy Tasch, Hannes Gerhardt

Posted on February 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Contesting the Arctic: Rethinking Politics in the Circumpolar North by Philip E. Steinberg, Jeremy Tasch and Hannes Gerhardt has been published by I.B. Tauris. As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty … Continue reading →

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History of the Present – the Berkeley newsletter on Foucault’s work online

Posted on February 16, 2015 by stuartelden

[Update September 2023 – thanks to a comment below for saying these are available via the Wayback Machine: 1; 2; 3; 4 Update Nov 2018 – these links appear to be dead. Please comment if they become live again or … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 20

Posted on February 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Since I arrived in Melbourne I’ve been working on the complete manuscript of the Foucault book, and I’ve made use of the libraries of Monash University, State Library of Victoria and University of Melbourne. One thing that the University of … Continue reading →

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Terrain, Volume, Drones – abstract for my keynote to Power and Space in the Drone Age conference

Posted on February 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Update: unfortunately I’ve had to withdraw from this event. Here’s the abstract for my keynote lecture to the Power and Space in the Drone Age conference, 27-28 August 2015, Université de Neuchâtel: Terrain, Volume, Drones This paper is part of a wider, … Continue reading →

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Poster for University of Sydney talk on “Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality”

Posted on February 10, 2015 by stuartelden

I posted details of all my talks in Sydney over the next few weeks yesterday. A very nice poster for the University of Sydney talk has just been produced.

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Talks in Sydney on Foucault, Territory, Shakespeare and Geopolitics in February and March

Posted on February 10, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ll be talking about and discussing aspects of most of my current and recent work in Sydney in late February and mid-March. 26 February, 4pm, “Foucault’s Third Course on Governmentality”, Darlington Centre Boardroom, Department of Political Economy/Centre for International Security … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Foucault's Last Decade, Michel Foucault, Politics, Shakespearean Territories, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Travel, William Shakespeare | 2 Comments

“Europe After The Minotaur”: free e-book from the new Finance Minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis

Posted on January 28, 2015 by stuartelden

“Europe After The Minotaur” – free e-book from the new Finance Minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, available from Zed books. You need to register, but  it’s a quick process. The book contains excerpts from his longer book The Global Minotaur. Europe After the … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory reviewed in Theory, Culture and Society

Posted on January 27, 2015 by stuartelden

The Birth of Territory is reviewed in Theory, Culture and Society by Dennis Crow (open access). Here’s the first paragraph: Elden deserves every accolade he receives for a remarkable book.  That phrase might suffice for a review, but it would … Continue reading →

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