Category Archives: Carl Schmitt

Eric Santner – The Royal Remains

I previously knew Santner’s work from his study of Sebald, On Creaturely Life. This more recent book covers similar ground to the Manow book I mentioned a few days ago – the persistence of the ‘two bodies’ idea explored by … Continue reading

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Political Theology and Early Modernity

Interesting looking collection edited by Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton, with a postface by Etienne Balibar. Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and … Continue reading

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Schmitt book now in paperback

Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos, edited by Stephen Legg, is now available in paperback. You can also preview the introduction there. The book includes a slightly revised version of my piece on Schmitt that first appeared in … Continue reading

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Anachronic Shakespeare

The Anachronic Shakespeare conference was excellent – a really interesting set of papers, engagingly delivered and with some really good discussion. John Archer gave a talk on sonnets 50 and 51 on the relation between human and animal, which he … Continue reading

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Schmitt in New York

Rory Rowan will be the fifth speaker in the ‘German Philosophy and Geography’ session, speaking on Carl Schmitt. He dropped me a line after yesterday’s post and we all welcomed it enthusiastically. As Rory well knows I think Schmitt is … Continue reading

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German Philosophy and Geography

This the session I am organising at the New York AAG (24-28 Feb 2012). The impact of philosophers on geography, in recent years, has largely been from the French tradition—Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Badiou and others. There are exceptions, of course, … Continue reading

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Territory, Communication, Speed

In his 1982 interview ‘Space, Knowledge and Power’, Foucault and Paul Rabinow discuss architecture in some detail. It was originally published in the journal Skyline, so this is not surprising. There are some interesting passages, which I’m going over for … Continue reading

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Schmitt, Foucault, war

Carl Schmitt, Writings on War is a new collection that gathers up some interesting, and politically appalling, pieces. Hopefully this will mean that The Nomos of the Earth is, in future, read in a wider political, and geopolitical context. By … Continue reading

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Carl Schmitt workshop audio files

Audio files for a conference on Carl Schmitt recently held in London are now available, here.

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Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt

The Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos collection, edited by Stephen Legg, is now out. The writings of Carl Schmitt are now indissociable from both an historical period and a contemporary moment. He will forever be remembered … Continue reading

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