Category Archives: Books

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

Shakespeare in Stratford

Posted on September 4, 2013 by stuartelden

One of the things I was looking forward to about being in the Midlands again was the proximity to Stratford-on-Avon. Susan and I went to see Titus Andronicus at the end of August, and I’ve booked tickets for As You … Continue reading →

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Making edited collections work – a publisher’s perspective

Posted on September 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Rowman and Littlefield International offer some interesting perspectives and advice (see also the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog, where three people offer defences of edited collections – I’ve previously linked to this.)

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Terricide – RGS-IBG audio available

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

My talk at the recent RGS-IBG conference is available here. This was part of a session on Geo-social formations: Capitalism and the Earth (details here and here), organised by Arun Saldanha, Kathryn Yusoff and Nigel Clark. Terricide – Lefebvre, Geopolitics and the Killing … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on August 31, 2013 by stuartelden

Two reissues of Foucault books, Joshua Barkan’s Corporate Sovereignty, David Farrell Krell’s Derrida and our Animal Others, Sloterdijk’s In the World Interior of Capital, and Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway.

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