Category Archives: Books

The work of editing – adding references to translations

Posted on June 6, 2014 by stuartelden

Over the past few weeks, around other things, I’ve been editing a translation of a book for a new press. I’ll post details of the book when the website is available. A lot of the work has been checking the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Martin Heidegger, Publishing, Writing | 7 Comments

Books received – Verso (3 of 3)

Posted on June 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Some of these I’ve read already due to Verso’s excellent e-book bundling. I wish more publishers would do this.  

Posted in Books, Etienne Balibar, Frantz Fanon, Jacques Rancière, Slavoj Zizek | 4 Comments

Books received – territory, borders, architecture, government (1 of 3)

Posted on June 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Working through the post… Saskia Sassen’s Expulsions and Darshan Vigneswaran’s Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System – both to review; Jones and Johnston’s Placing the Border in Everyday Life – which I endorsed; and Lemm and Vatter’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Eyal Weizman, Politics, Saskia Sassen, Territory | 1 Comment

Gerry Kearns reviews The Birth of Territory – and a minor note on ‘land’

Posted on June 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Gerry Kearns has written a review of The Birth of Territory for Society and Space. My sincere thanks to Gerry, and Veronica della Dora, who commissioned the review. The review is available open access, so I won’t quote from it here. It’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in Clarence J. Glacken, David N. Livingstone, Derek Gregory, Society and Space, The Birth of Territory | 3 Comments

Critical Theory books that came out in May

Posted on June 3, 2014 by stuartelden

A nice round-up of some recent books – Derrida, Laclau, Lefebvre, Damlé, Flusser, etc. -at critical-theory.com  

Posted in Books, Ernesto Laclau, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Derrida | 1 Comment

The post mountain

Posted on June 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Back in the UK – this was what was awaiting me at work. The two big boxes are from the Verso sale; the rest I’m not yet sure.

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Tom Conley reviews The Birth of Territory in Imago Mundi

Posted on June 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Tom Conley reviews The Birth of Territory in Imago Mundi (subscription required). It’s a thoughtful, generous and engaged review. Here’s the first paragraph: Readers of Imago Mundi will appreciate this book for what it does along the fringes the history … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Territory, The Birth of Territory | 1 Comment

Shakespeare in New York: Kenneth Branagh as Macbeth – a short review

Posted on June 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Warning: if you are planning on seeing this production of Macbeth, I’d suggest not reading further. There are spoilers about the production I would not have wanted to know beforehand.     The staging of Macbeth at the Park Avenue … Continue reading →

Posted in Shakespearean Territories, William Shakespeare | 8 Comments

AAG award citation for The Birth of Territory

Posted on May 30, 2014 by stuartelden

I announced the AAG Meridian award for The Birth of Territory before, but they have now posted the citation online: AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography This award is given for a book written by a geographer … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Politics, Territory, The Birth of Territory | 1 Comment

Simon Russell Beale as King Lear; Kenneth Branagh as Macbeth

Posted on May 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Tomorrow – my last full day in New York – will be a day of Shakespeare. At lunch time I am going to see the ‘live in Cinema’ screening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music of King Lear with Simon Russell Beale … Continue reading →

Posted in Shakespearean Territories, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment