Category Archives: Books

Mark Blyth, Austerity

Posted on March 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Blyth’s Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea is out shortly. There are several endorsements at the OUP page, and also a review by Henry Farrell in Washington Monthly. A series of videos show a talk he gave at … Continue reading →

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Alexander von Humboldt lecture – The Emergence of Territory

Posted on March 4, 2013 by stuartelden

An old lecture of mine, on the history of territory project, has been posted on YouTube. It’s one of the Alexander von Humboldt lectures at the University of Nijmegen, from September 2010. It’s introduced by Huib Ernste, and you can … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on March 4, 2013 by stuartelden

John Sallis, Logic of Imagination; the reissue of Michael Watts, Silent Violence; Paul Virilio’s The Great Accelerator, and Paidraig Carmody, The New Scramble for Africa.

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Andrew Barry, Material Politics

Posted on March 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Andrew Barry’s new book Material Politics: Disputes Along the Pipeline is forthcoming in September in the RGS-IBG book series. In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political … Continue reading →

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Franco Moretti, Distant Reading and The Bourgeois

Posted on March 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Franco Moretti’s book of essays, Distant Reading, is coming out in June. He also has a book entitled The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature coming out at the same time. The Verso blog has a post about his work here. How … Continue reading →

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Doctor of Letters

Posted on February 28, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve been awarded a DLitt degree (Doctor of Letters) from Durham University, on the basis of publications post-PhD. This is a so-called ‘higher doctorate’. I submitted three books – Understanding Henri Lefebvre, Speaking Against Numberand Terror and Territory – along … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory proofs

Posted on February 28, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve recently received the proofs for The Birth of Territory, due out later this year. It looks good and I’ve not spotted anything serious as yet. It’s a strange experience to be reading this in very-near-final form, looking like a … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on February 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (really wanted this to re-read Sartre’s preface); Michael Mack’s How Literature Changes the Way we Think; Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou’s Disposession; David Chandler’s Freedom vs Necessity in International Relations; an old New Left … Continue reading →

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The Political Bodies of Coriolanus

Posted on February 25, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my Politics, Philosophy and International Thought lecture at Aberystwyth University is available here. It’s a part of the planned Shakespearean Territories book, and this time I talked about Coriolanus – mainly the play but also the … Continue reading →

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Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy

Posted on February 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Purcell’s new book, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy, is now available to pre-order. It has very positive endorsements from Peter Marcuse and Susan Fainstein. The book uses Lefebvre, among others, to think about politics, the urban and democracy. Mark … Continue reading →

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