Category Archives: Books

Verso’s books of the year

Posted on December 20, 2012 by stuartelden

Not Verso books, but books chosen by Verso – another good list.

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BLDGBLOG recommends books of 2012

Posted on December 20, 2012 by stuartelden

As a balance to Crooked Timber’s fiction suggestions reblogged yesterday, BLDGBLOG has a number of suggestions for good books to read on mapping, architecture, landscape, urban planning and the like.

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Books received

Posted on December 14, 2012 by stuartelden

The two Minnesota ones – Brown, The Primitive, the Aesthetic and the Savage: An Enlightenment Problematic and Schwenger, At the Borders of Sleep: On Liminal Literature – were pre-ordered when I did a review for them, as was Parvini, Shakespeare and Contemporary … Continue reading →

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Book Depository live map

Posted on December 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Speaking of books and maps – Book Depository have a page which let’s you see what books are being bought, and where, live. Thanks to Ben Rosamond for the link.

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Michel Foucher – A Battle of Maps

Posted on December 11, 2012 by stuartelden

An Ipad app on cartography and politics, by Michel Foucher. Want to understand the modern world and its burning issues, the balance of powers between the major players, the role of the emerging economies and the risks to come? The … Continue reading →

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Making the Geologic Now

Posted on December 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Punctum Books have published a new interesting collection, Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life. Details of the print edition and free download link here. Making the Geologic Now announces shifts in cultural sensibilities and practices. It … Continue reading →

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Babette Babich on the books that inspired her

Posted on December 3, 2012 by stuartelden

At the LSE blog, Babette Babich discusses the books that inspired her – wide-ranging and fascinating reading. Babette Babich is an American philosopher known for her studies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, and Hölderlin as well as for her work in … Continue reading →

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Books I’ve read and plan to read

Posted on December 2, 2012 by stuartelden

A book meme I took from Rob Kitchin’s The View from the Blue House and first answered a year ago. As before I’ve largely answered in relation to non-academic reading… The book I’m currently reading? Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Territories in Oxford – audio available

Posted on November 24, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve posted the audio recording of my talk to the 1887 Society, Mansfield College, University of Oxford from earlier this week. The first 18 minutes discuss my work on territory and the Shakespeare project in more general terms; the example in the … Continue reading →

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The Guardian’s Books of the Year

Posted on November 24, 2012 by stuartelden

2012’s Books of the Year, in The Guardian. Contributors include Adichie, Armitage, Byatt, Franzen, Paxman and Žižek. Ideas for Christmas or New Year reading, especially as some of these will be out in paperback soon. (The list of 2011 books is … Continue reading →

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