Category Archives: Books

The Birth of Territory – author meets critics session at the AAG

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Claudio Minca and Jeremy Crampton have organised an ‘author meets critics’ session on The Birth of Territory for the Association of American Geographers in Tampa next year. The panellists will be Juliet Fall, Alec Murphy, Joe Bryan and Anssi Paasi, with … Continue reading →

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Reassembling International Theory – new edited collection

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Coming out later this month, an interesting looking collection entitled Reassembling International Theory: Assemblage Thinking and International Relations, edited by Michele Acuto and Simon Curtis. Outrageous price of £45 for 136 pages though. What can ‘assemblage thinking’ contribute to international theory? Assemblages have been invoked … Continue reading →

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Rousseau – Property, Land, Territory

Posted on November 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Purcell points to Rousseau’s ‘denunciation of property’ in the second discourse: The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, … Continue reading →

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David Tennant as Richard II @TheRSC – some thoughts

Posted on November 6, 2013 by stuartelden

I went to see Shakespeare’s Richard II in Stratford yesterday. David (Dr Who) Tennant was King Richard, but a very strong cast generally – Oliver Ford Davies as the Duke of York, Michael Pennington as John of Gaunt, Nigel Lindsay … Continue reading →

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David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2 – a brief review

Posted on November 5, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve previously posted about David Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2 being published. I’ve now had a chance to read it, and to my mind it’s even better than the first volume A Companion to Marx’s Capital which appeared in 2010. … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on November 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Two books for the Althusser project; Marcelo Hoffman’s Foucault and Power; Michael Dear’s Why Walls Won’t Work; and the latest Society and Space.

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Critical-Theory.com’s five books that came out in October – Balibar, Spanos, Morton, Jameson, Hancox

Posted on November 1, 2013 by stuartelden

List and details here.

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More books received

Posted on October 30, 2013 by stuartelden

All from University of Chicago Press in recompense for some review work – some interesting books from Eric Santner, Cary Wolfe, Derrida, Tracy B. Strong, and a couple on political theology and/or Shakespeare.

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Foucault’s Last Decade – fourth update

Posted on October 25, 2013 by stuartelden

It has been a long time since the third update on the book I’m writing entitled Foucault’s Last Decade, under contract with Polity Press. Since that last update I’ve moved house and started a new job – both of which have … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Miles Davis, Ghanaian sunshine…

Posted on October 23, 2013 by stuartelden
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