Category Archives: Books

Foucault, La société punitive

Posted on July 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Foucault’s 1972-73 Collège de France course, La société punitive, appears on amazon.fr with an October a late November 2013 publication date. It doesn’t yet appear on the Seuil page.

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Books received

Posted on July 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Amin and Thrift’s Arts of the Political; two old books by Elizabeth Grosz; the latest Sloterdijk books in English and German; the new Foucault lecture course; John Protevi’s Life, War, Earth (which I wrote an endorsement for); and the new … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory cover

Posted on July 1, 2013 by stuartelden

The book will be out in August – University of Chicago Press page here. Here’s what I say about the subject of the picture in the book: Irnerius (c.1050-c.1130) is a largely unknown figure, but he founded the school known … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on June 28, 2013 by stuartelden

The two new books by Franco Moretti; two on Palestine; the new edition of Lacoste’s classic, an interesting looking book for the Earth project, and the new issues of RIPE and Transactions.

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

Posted on June 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Forthcoming in September 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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Nigeria at Fifty reviewed

Posted on June 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Nigeria at Fifty: The Nation in Narration, edited by Ebenezer Obadare and Wale Adebanwi, is reviewed at E-IR.

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John Plamenatz, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau

Posted on June 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Almost forty years after they were intended to be delivered, John Plamenatz’s lectures on Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau have been published. They are reviewed at NDPR by Jeffrey Collins. The review doubts their worth today, but in doing so provides an interesting discussion … Continue reading →

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Theory of the drone

Posted on June 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
I’ve been contacted by L’actualité for an interview on drones, which led me to a new book by French philosopher Grégoire Chamayou (CNRS): Théorie du drone (La fabrique, 2013).  I’ve only just ordered it, so this post is…

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International Politics and Performance

Posted on June 3, 2013 by stuartelden

This has got to be the quickest edited collection I’ve ever been involved in. Routledge have a publication date for October, and I only submitted my chapter (on political bodies in Coriolanus) in mid-March.

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Chicago History of Cartography – Volume 3 now also free online

Posted on June 1, 2013 by stuartelden

I previously mentioned that the University of Chicago Press had made volume 1 and the three books of volume 2 of the History of Cartography freely available online. They have now added the two parts of volume 3 on Cartography … Continue reading →

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