Category Archives: Henri Lefebvre

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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The Rhythmanalysis Laboratory

Posted on August 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Website on rhythmanalysis and its uses – thanks to Tahereh Af for the link.

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Kirsch on Lefebvre’s State, Space, World

Posted on July 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Scott Kirsch’s thorough review of Lefebvre’s State, Space, World in Antipode is now available open access here.

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Henri Lefebvre and Education

Posted on July 12, 2013 by stuartelden

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 than 70 books, few were … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on May 28, 2013 by stuartelden

The Korean translation of Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis (including my introduction from the English translation); Jacob Taubes, To Carl Schmitt; Richard J. Bernstein’s Violence; and the 2013 diary from Passia, with a wealth of maps, information and data on Palestine, along with … Continue reading →

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Jeanne Haffner, The View from Above

Posted on May 21, 2013 by stuartelden

Jeanne Haffner’s The View from Above: The Science of Social Space has recently been published by MIT Press. In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social space” (l’espace social)—the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked—emerged in a … Continue reading →

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