Category Archives: Books

The Birth of Territory proofs and index

Posted on April 2, 2013 by stuartelden

The proofs and index for The Birth of Territory are now done. I think that’s it for work on this book from my side, though I’m still awaiting the cover design. I wrote a bit about the experience of looking … Continue reading →

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Verso Radical Thinkers – series 8 and call for suggestions

Posted on March 29, 2013 by stuartelden

From Sebastian Budgen at Verso – comments below are fine and I’ll pass them on: Series 8 of Radical Thinkers will consist in the following: Spectre of Hegel: Early Writings –  Louis Althusser Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Etienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière, Louis Althusser, Publishing | 11 Comments

Foucault lecture at Memorial University Newfoundland – audio recording

Posted on March 26, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of the George Story Lecture in Humanities I gave at Memorial University of Newfoundland, entitled “Knowledge, Truth, Power: The Politics of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir”, is now available here. There is a gap in the recording about … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory – University of Chicago Press page and preorder

Posted on March 25, 2013 by stuartelden

The University of Chicago Press page for my book The Birth of Territory is now up with the description, an endorsement from John Agnew, and the table of contents. It will be available in cloth and paperback simultaneously. The paperback is $30, which … Continue reading →

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Call for Contributors to Critical Animal Geographies edited volume

Posted on March 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Reposted from crit-geog-forum: Fifteen years after the publication of the groundbreaking Animal Geographies (Wolch & Emel 1998), followed by Animal Spaces, Beastly Places (Philo & Wilbert 2000), a growing number of geographers now readily acknowledge the nonhuman animal as an … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on March 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Mainly in recompense for some review work for OUP for the Shakespeare project, but also an early Heidegger lecture course, Tim Cresswell’s Geographic Thought, the new issue of Society and Space, a journal I didn’t know before called CRIOS (Critica degli … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Shakespearean Territories, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

Landscape Futures

Posted on March 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG has a new edited collection coming out – lots of images available at the blog. Ground-penetrating radar used to map buried cities. Ghost tectonic plates subsiding beneath the American West, revealed by seismic tomography. Lensless cameras that … Continue reading →

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Ben Woodard – On an Ungrounded Earth

Posted on March 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Ben Woodard’s book On an Ungrounded Earth: Towards a New Geophilosophy is available to download or buy from Punctum Books. For too long, the Earth has been used to ground thought instead of bending it; such grounding leaves the planet as … Continue reading →

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University of Minnesota Press blog – What do university presses do?

Posted on March 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Jason Weidemann of University of Minnesota Press on ‘What do university presses do?’ The particular example is the process of turning Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s dissertation into the book The Slumbering Masses.  

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Lectures in Newfoundland

Posted on March 12, 2013 by stuartelden

I’m giving a few lectures at Memorial University of Newfoundland next week. The main reason I am going is to give the George M. Storey lecture in the Humanities, but a few other events have been arranged including a visit to … Continue reading →

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