Category Archives: Terror and Territory

Terrains and Territories – Stuart Elden and Nico Buitendag discussion at Undisciplined

Posted on May 4, 2020 by stuartelden

Terrains and Territories – Stuart Elden and Nico Buitendag discussion at Undisciplined Many thanks to Nico for this invitation, and for a wide-ranging discussion that touches on nearly everything I’ve worked on. This is part of a series of discussions … Continue reading →

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Pod Save Austria – English version of talk and discussion on ‘Terror and the State of Territory’

Posted on June 15, 2018 by stuartelden

I shared the German version of this last week, but the English version is now available online. Pod Save Austria – ‘Terror and the State of Territory’ It begins with a 15 minute talk by me, and then a discussion … Continue reading →

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Terror und Territorium – podcast with Stuart Elden, Gudrun Harrer and Saskia Stachowitsch (in German)

Posted on June 6, 2018 by stuartelden

Terror und Territorium – podcast with me (dubbed in German), Gudrun Harrer and Saskia Stachowitsch. The rest of the series is here. Die Verbindung von Staat und Territorium galt lange als fixiert, die Welt geteilt durch Grenzen, die klar und … Continue reading →

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Pod save Austria: Addresses on the State of the Nation(s), 14-20 May 2018

Posted on May 8, 2018 by stuartelden

I’ll be speaking at this event, with my talk on 19 May on the topic of ‘Terror and the State of Territory’. Gudrun Harrer and Saskia Stachowitsch will be responding. My talk will draw on previous work on territory, both … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, Speaking Against Number (EUP 2006) now available at reduced price

Posted on July 3, 2017 by stuartelden

My 2006 book Speaking Against Number: Heidegger, Language and the Politics of Calculation is now available at reduced price from Edinburgh University Press. It was only ever published in hardback, and previously available only at a very high price. It’s … Continue reading →

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Translation of ‘Territory without Borders’ in Iran’s Shargh Daily

Posted on May 31, 2017 by stuartelden

My 2011 short essay ‘Territory without Borders‘, which originally appeared in the Harvard International Review, has been translated for the May 28, 2017 issue of the Iranian paper Shargh Daily. My thanks to Sahand Sattari for making the translation. In 2015 he … Continue reading →

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Terrain’s Volume – video of my lecture to the Technologies of Space symposium in Oslo

Posted on April 28, 2017 by stuartelden

Terrain’s Volume – video of my lecture to the Technologies of Space: Verticality, Volume, Infrastructure symposium in Oslo in March 2017. The overall introduction is by Liv Hausken; the introduction to my lecture is by Susanne Østby Sather. The version here doesn’t show … Continue reading →

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The morning after the day before – contemporary politics and research directions

Posted on November 9, 2016 by stuartelden

There are many things on which to reflect from yesterday’s events in the USA. One side of my extended family is in Ohio, Michigan and Alabama, so this is personally as well as generally political. But I was supposed to … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory review essay in Tulsa Law Review by Bartholomew Sparrow

Posted on April 7, 2016 by stuartelden

A thoughtful and generous review essay of my 2013 book The Birth of Territory has just been published – “Territory Delimited“, Tulsa Law Review by Bartholomew Sparrow (open access). I was particularly pleased with these two general paragraphs, which follow a detailed survey of what the … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, “Territory – Political Technology, Volume, Terrain”, video of Architectural Association lecture

Posted on October 16, 2015 by stuartelden

The video of my lecture on “Territory – Political Technology, Volume, Terrain“, given as a Landscape Urbanism Open School Event, Architectural Association lecture on  7/10/2015 is now available. The volume is very quiet, and it begins a few moments in … Continue reading →

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