Category Archives: Books

Shakespearean Territories – Durham and Oxford

Posted on November 21, 2012 by stuartelden

Last week I talked about the Shakespearean Territories project at the Politicised Literary Geographies workshop in Durham. Angharad Closs Stephens, Carolyn Pedwell and James Kneale were the other speakers. The whole event was recorded and we hope to make that … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory – copy-editing done

Posted on November 18, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve just finished checking through all the queries with the copy-editing of the manuscript of The Birth of Territory. This must have been quite a job, given the length of the manuscript and the number of foreign words and references. … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on November 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Chris Butler’s book on Lefebvre; Conley’s Spatial Ecologies; Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography (can’t quite believe I actually bought this); Campe’s The Game of Probability; first edition of Lindberg, The Beginning of Western Science (thanks Nick); a second-hand copy of … Continue reading →

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Romney’s Project for a New American Century

Posted on November 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Romney’s team prepared a website to launch if he’d won the election. I don’t blame him for being prepared, though rather embarassing that it leaked. Political Wire has some images. Interesting to see the idea of the ‘American century’ coming up … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Territories – Durham, Oxford, York

Posted on November 7, 2012 by stuartelden

I’m giving various talks on my Shakespearean Territories project over the next few months. In November, I’ll be speaking in my own department at a workshop on Politicised Literary Geographies, and then to the 1887 Society at Mansfield College, University … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on October 23, 2012 by stuartelden

A pile of books from Stanford UP in recompense for review work, mainly Agamben ones I didn’t have before, a couple of novels, the new issue of Society and Space, and two books by Durham authors (that I need to … Continue reading →

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A long day

Posted on October 23, 2012 by stuartelden

Yesterday was a long and varied day, in which I dealt with aspects of just about every part of my roles at Durham and beyond. I was in before 8am, dealing with some teaching stuff, and then giving a two-hour … Continue reading →

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Book publishing, uploading pdfs, and print on demand

Posted on October 16, 2012 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has some good thoughts on book publishing here – sparked by someone uploading his book Tool Being. I agree with Graham on this, although I don’t have his experience of publishing a book in simultaneous print and free … Continue reading →

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New books received

Posted on October 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Some recently received books – mainly from University of Georgia Press in recompense for review work; an old and a new book bought from Verso; Kant’s Natural Science for review; and a copy of the Babel2  Diritto alla città collection … Continue reading →

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Politicised Literary Geographies – workshop at Durham

Posted on October 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Department of Geography workshop, Durham University 16th November 2012, W007 – sponsored by Politics-State-Space research cluster If you wish to participate in this event, please register with Andrew Baldwin w.a.baldwin@durham.ac.uk. The aim of this workshop is to engage with the … Continue reading →

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