Category Archives: The Space of the World

Fossils talk, and revised abstract

Posted on March 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Four weeks ago I posted the abstract of the talk I will be giving tomorrow at the Humanities Research Centre here at ANU. That abstract was written at time when I had a vague sense of what I was going … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Fossils, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Michel Foucault, The Space of the World | 1 Comment

Scales of the Earth

Posted on March 25, 2011 by stuartelden

New Geographies 4, Scales of the Earth, edited by El Hadi Jazairy, is now available. The first Apollo images of the Earth have produced a perspective enabling humanity to act on Earth and its nature as if it controlled it from … Continue reading →

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Books on the boil

Posted on March 16, 2011 by stuartelden

There has been a bit of a collision between different book projects recently… We received the revised final proofs of Reading Kant’s Geography, which still had mistakes, including some that had been pointed out on the original final proofs. We … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Fossils, Immanuel Kant, Peter Sloterdijk, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World | 3 Comments

Fossils: Age, World, Relation

Posted on March 1, 2011 by stuartelden

This is the title of the talk I’ll be giving at ANU in four weeks time. The Humanities Research Centre theme for this year is ‘The World and World-Making in Humanities and the Arts’. The draft abstract follows:- What do fossils … Continue reading →

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Reading at ANU

Posted on February 25, 2011 by stuartelden

Since I arrived here I’ve been doing quite a lot of reading, as I am at that interesting stage of a new project where you have a few ideas and begin following promising leads. Some of them, of course, turn … Continue reading →

Posted in David N. Livingstone, Fossils, Gilles Deleuze, Klaus Theweleit, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, The Space of the World, Wendy Brown, William E Connolly | 1 Comment

The Space of the World 2009

Posted on February 16, 2011 by stuartelden

Here’s the initial project proposal I wrote in 2009 for the work I’m now beginning to think about more seriously. Globalisation remains a significant research topic across the social sciences and humanities. Yet despite attention within geography, a coherent analysis … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Eugen Fink, Henri Lefebvre, Kostas Axelos, Peter Sloterdijk, Quentin Meillassoux, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World | 2 Comments

Talks in Sydney, Canberra, London, Cambridge

Posted on February 5, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve agreed to give a few more talks. On March 11th, the day after I speak at the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney, I will head across town to the Law Faculty at University of New … Continue reading →

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End of the Leverhulme fellowship

Posted on January 31, 2011 by stuartelden

Today is the last day of my Leverhulme major research fellowship. As of tomorrow I am on research leave. The Leverhulme award was to work on the history of the concept of territory project. I’d already been working on that … Continue reading →

Posted in Immanuel Kant, Peter Sloterdijk, Speaking Against Number, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World, Travel | Leave a comment

Triptych, not a Trilogy

Posted on January 7, 2011 by stuartelden

On one the interesting things in the Wu Ming interview comes in the third section of the audio, where they describe their Manituana book as the first in a triptych, not a trilogy. The second is on the French Revolution. … Continue reading →

Posted in Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World, Wu Ming | 1 Comment

Australia

Posted on January 3, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ll be in Australia between 19 February and 15 May this year, as a visiting fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. I will be spending a few days in Singapore on the way and Hong … Continue reading →

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