Category Archives: Books

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 →

Posted in Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Negri, Books, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Rancière, Michael Hardt, Politics, urban/urbanisation | 3 Comments

Boko Haram, Shakespeare and Territory – talks at L.S.E. and Aberystwyth

Posted on February 18, 2013 by stuartelden

I’m giving three talks this coming week – at the London School of Economics and Aberystwyth University. At the L.S.E. I’ll be giving the first version on a paper under the working title of “Nigeria’s ‘War on Terror’: The Geopolitics … Continue reading →

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Brett Christophers – Banking Across Boundaries

Posted on February 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Brett Christophers’s new book Banking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism has just been published. It’s part of the Antipode Book Series, and comes with glowing endorsements from David Harvey, Mary Poovey and Leonard Seabrooke. There are excerpts available to … Continue reading →

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Laura Kurgan – Close up at a Distance

Posted on February 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting looking book forthcoming from Zone Books – Laura Kurgan, Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics.  The past two decades have seen revolutionary shifts in our ability to navigate, inhabit, and define the spatial realm. The data … Continue reading →

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Spatial Politics – essays for Doreen Massey book and event

Posted on February 1, 2013 by stuartelden

Clive Barnett at Pop Theory has the news of a launch event for the collection Spatial Politics: essays for Doreen Massey, edited by Dave Featherstone and Joe Painter. The details of the event can be found here.

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John Protevi, Life, War, Earth

Posted on January 29, 2013 by stuartelden

In the post today, the manuscript of John Protevi’s new book, Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences, which I’ve agreed to endorse for University of Minnesota Press. Looking forward to reading this.

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Books received

Posted on January 28, 2013 by stuartelden

A couple of old translations of Hegel, Žižek’s fairly early book on Hegel, Judith Butler’s Parting Ways, Engin Isin’s Citizens without Frontiers, and Matthieu Rigoste, L’ennemi intérieur, borrowed from Gerald Moore.  

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