Category Archives: Books

Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity and the Falklands/Las Malvinas

Posted on January 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Today’s Argentine letter on the Falkland/Las Malvinas islands makes for interesting reading. Buenos Aires, January 3rd, 2013 Mr Prime Minister David Cameron, One hundred and eighty years ago on the same date, January 3rd, in a blatant exercise of 19th-century … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Politics, Territory, Terror and Territory | 1 Comment

More novels read in 2012

Posted on December 24, 2012 by stuartelden

At the end of June I posted a list of the novels I’d read so far in 2012. Here are those I read between July and today the end of the year- not all are novels, as there are a few books about … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 23, 2012 by stuartelden

Joshua J. Kurz discusses my 2009 book Terror and Territory at his blog Being-in-Exodus.

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Cohen against $100 books

Posted on December 21, 2012 by stuartelden

Jeffrey Cohen rails against $100 books at In the Middle. I’ve noticed this price hike going on too, for print on demand books that have sold out in their first pressing.

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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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