Category Archives: Books

Foucault’s La société punitive – some additional thoughts on the second half

Posted on December 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Following my thoughts on the first half, here are some additional comments on the second half of Foucault’s 1973 lecture course La société punitive. As mentioned, I’ll be writing a much more formal and thorough review for Berfrois. – Harcourt’s notes … Continue reading →

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40 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in 2013

Posted on December 24, 2013 by stuartelden

critical-theory.com has produced a detailed list of forty books that came out in 2013. Lots of great books in here. I’m pleased that my own The Birth of Territory has made the cut. [update: now has fifty books including reader additions … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s La société punitive – some initial thoughts on the first half

Posted on December 23, 2013 by stuartelden

I received Foucault’s La société punitive last week, and it was the only academic book I took with me on my Christmas trip to Ghana. As with these lecture courses generally I know I will read them several times, so … Continue reading →

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Olivia Harrison on Living Together: Jacques Derrida’s Communities of Violence and Peace

Posted on December 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Long review of a book containing Derrida’s last US lecture and a series of responses – Elizabeth Weber (ed.) Living Together: Jacques Derrida’s Communities of Violence and Peace – in the LA Review of Books. Thanks to Ayşe Mermutlu for the link.

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Jeremy Crampton on my ‘the political is always technical’ comment

Posted on December 19, 2013 by stuartelden

Jeremy Crampton has responded in a very interesting way to my comment that ‘the political is always technical’. I made that comment in my remarks to the ArcticNet conference last week – a summary and the audio recording are here. … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Conferences, Jeremy Crampton, Mapping the Present, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Territory, The Birth of Territory | 4 Comments

Fifteen years ago today I submitted my PhD thesis

Posted on December 18, 2013 by stuartelden

My PhD thesis was entitled ‘Mapping the Present: Space and History in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault’ and it was submitted in December 1998 (I’m pretty sure it was on the 18th). It was examined … Continue reading →

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Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect – out next year

Posted on December 18, 2013 by stuartelden

My ex-Durham colleague and friend Ben Anderson’s book Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions is coming out next year. Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, and how to … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Anderson, Sloterdijk, Geographica Helvetica

Posted on December 17, 2013 by stuartelden

The latest Foucault lecture course La société punitive; Sloterdijk’s Nietzsche Apostle; Perry Anderson’s Lineages of the Absolutist State (the only one of my ten books that stayed with me that I didn’t actually own); and the new issue of Geographica … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on December 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Luke Glanville’s Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect, Sue Middleton’s Henri Lefebvre and Education, the new issues of RIS and Transactions, and a manuscript to review.

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Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre?

Posted on December 11, 2013 by stuartelden

[The most recent version of this guide can be found here.] This comes in response to a question to me on Twitter. Where should you start with Henri Lefebvre? I think many people, especially in Geography, go to The Production … Continue reading →

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