Category Archives: Books

Barry Stocker on Foucault’s Lectures on Subjectivity and Truth

Posted on June 13, 2014 by stuartelden

The second part of lecture 2; the first part of lecture 3 and the second part.

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Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds – new book series edited by Jason Dittmer and Ian Klinke

Posted on June 13, 2014 by stuartelden

Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds – Rowman International  Series edited by Jason Dittmer and Ian Klinke This series publishes studies that originate in a range of different fields that are nonetheless linked through their common foundation: a belief that the macro-scale of geopolitics … Continue reading →

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David Storey reviews The Birth of Territory in Journal of Historical Geography

Posted on June 10, 2014 by stuartelden

David Storey reviews The Birth of Territory in Journal of Historical Geography (requires subscription or email me). Here’s the final paragraph. This is a work of history, political science, law and philosophy as well as a work of geography. In telling the … Continue reading →

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Archipelago/Funambulist Conversation between Léopold Lambert and Stuart Elden on Territory and Volume

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve linked to content on Archipelago – the podcast companion site to Léopold Lambert’s The Funambulist – before. This time it’s a discussion with me, conducted at the CUSP offices in New York, and mainly discussing my 2013 article “Secure the … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Eyal Weizman, Foucault's Last Decade, Jeremy Crampton, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Paul Virilio, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Shakespearean Territories, Travel, urban/urbanisation, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions – first chapter online

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

The first chapter of Ben Anderson’s Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions is available online. The book will be out in July. Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, … Continue reading →

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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