Category Archives: Henri Lefebvre

Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre?

Posted on December 11, 2013 by stuartelden

[The most recent version of this guide can be found here.] This comes in response to a question to me on Twitter. Where should you start with Henri Lefebvre? I think many people, especially in Geography, go to The Production … Continue reading →

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Neil Brenner (ed.) Implosions/Explosions – sample pages available

Posted on November 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Sample pages for Neil Brenner’s collection, Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization are now available on the publisher’s website. In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre and Education

Posted on November 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Sue Middleton’s book Henri Lefebvre and Education: Space, Theory, History is forthcoming in November with Routledge. During his lifetime Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) was renowned in France as a philosopher, sociologist and activist. Although he published more…

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Books received

Posted on October 30, 2013 by stuartelden

Three old Althusser volumes; Eric Hazan’s history of the barricade; the reissue of Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis; Chamayou’s Manhunts; and two new books (well, one 2013 and one 2011) by Daniel Heller-Roazen.

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Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis reissue

Posted on October 18, 2013 by stuartelden

The reissue of Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life is now out from Bloomsbury. It includes translations of Lefebvre’s book ‘Elements of Rhythmanalysis’, two related essays, and an introduction by me. As far as I know there are no … Continue reading →

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My review of Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy

Posted on September 27, 2013 by stuartelden

My review of Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy has now been published in Global Discourse (requires subscription). A limited number of downloads are available here. If that expires, please let me know if you’d like a copy.

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Neil Brenner (ed.) Implosions/Explosions – forthcoming

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Jovis Verlag have a page up for Neil Brenner’s collection, Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization. In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical … Continue reading →

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Earth, Terricide, Geo-metrics

Posted on September 5, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve now nearly finished writing my keynote lecture for the Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance workshop at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (September 19-20). The title is “Geo-metrics” (abstract here). This is the third in a sequence of … Continue reading →

Posted in Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Conferences, Elizabeth Grosz, Eugen Fink, Henri Lefebvre, Kostas Axelos, Martin Heidegger, Politics, Publishing, Speaking Against Number, Writing | 3 Comments

Terricide – RGS-IBG audio available

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

My talk at the recent RGS-IBG conference is available here. This was part of a session on Geo-social formations: Capitalism and the Earth (details here and here), organised by Arun Saldanha, Kathryn Yusoff and Nigel Clark. Terricide – Lefebvre, Geopolitics and the Killing … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Elizabeth Grosz, Henri Lefebvre, Kostas Axelos, The Space of the World | 2 Comments

Resources page

Posted on August 19, 2013 by stuartelden

While the Free Downloads page is the place to go for online content by me (articles, interviews, audio, video and reading lists), there is also a Resources page with links to the Boko Haram bibliography, translations of short texts by Foucault … Continue reading →

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