Category Archives: Books

The Globalization of Space: Foucault and Heterotopia

Posted on September 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Heterotopian Studies has news of a forthcoming collection entitled The Globalization of Space: Foucault and Heterotopia.

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Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation – book series news

Posted on September 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Nik Heynen has news of changes to the editorial board of the Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation book series, along with news of the Neil Smith book prize.

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David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2

Posted on September 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Now out from Verso, David Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2. The first volume A Companion to Marx’s Capital appeared in 2010. Videos of the lectures on which these books are based are available at http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

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Books received – Global Politics and The Great University Gamble

Posted on September 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Author copies of Global Politics, and The Great University Gamble.

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The Birth of Territory kindle version available

Posted on September 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Amazon have released the Kindle edition. They have the physical copy down for release on 13th September. The University of Chicago Press page is already shipping the book and their own electronic version.

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Mary Beard on more footnotes

Posted on September 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Mary Beard follows up her previous column on footnotes (previously linked to) with another good discussion. Anyone who has read past p. 330 in The Birth of Territory will appreciate why I liked these two posts.

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Neil Brenner (ed.) Implosions/Explosions – forthcoming

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Jovis Verlag have a page up for Neil Brenner’s collection, Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization. In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical … Continue reading →

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Books received – Explore Everything and Lifeblood

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Two very interesting books in the post – Bradley Garrett’s stunningly illustrated and designed Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City and Matthew Huber’s Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom and the Forces of Capital. Thanks to the publishers for sending these.  

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Fionnuala O’Neill response to my The Geopolitics of King Lear

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

In the same issue of Law and Literature that my paper “The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth” (free download) appears in, there is a piece by Fionnuala O’Neill entitled “Toward Tyranny: Geopolitics and Genre, A Response to Stuart Elden” (requires … Continue reading →

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Earth, Terricide, Geo-metrics

Posted on September 5, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve now nearly finished writing my keynote lecture for the Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance workshop at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (September 19-20). The title is “Geo-metrics” (abstract here). This is the third in a sequence of … Continue reading →

Posted in Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Conferences, Elizabeth Grosz, Eugen Fink, Henri Lefebvre, Kostas Axelos, Martin Heidegger, Politics, Publishing, Speaking Against Number, Writing | 3 Comments