Category Archives: Books

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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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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