Category Archives: Henri Lefebvre

Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy

Posted on February 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Purcell’s new book, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy, is now available to pre-order. It has very positive endorsements from Peter Marcuse and Susan Fainstein. The book uses Lefebvre, among others, to think about politics, the urban and democracy. Mark … Continue reading →

Posted in Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Negri, Books, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Rancière, Michael Hardt, Politics, urban/urbanisation | 3 Comments

Terricide – Lefebvre, Geopolitics and the Killing of the Earth

Posted on February 8, 2013 by stuartelden

This is my abstract for the August 2013 Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) annual conference. It will be part of the sessions organised by Nigel Clark, Kathryn Yusoff and Arun Saldanha on ‘Geo-Social Formations: Capitalism and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Henri Lefebvre, Kostas Axelos, Politics, Territory | 6 Comments

Lefebvre, autogestion, Mexico and Turkey

Posted on February 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Ertan Erol, one of Adam David Morton’s PhD students, discusses how Lefebvre’s notion of autogestion, especially in the State, Space, World collection is helpful in understanding spaces of difference and capitalist space in Mexico and Turkey at For the Desk … Continue reading →

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Two posts on the Zapatistas

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Two interesting posts on the Zapatistas – at Territorial Masquerades and For the Desk Drawer. Both look at related questions around territory and geopolitics, both explicitly relate to Lefebvre’s work in various ways, but there are links to his writings on … Continue reading →

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Urban/Territory/World

Posted on December 7, 2012 by stuartelden

The ‘Thinking Urban Worlds’ workshop at Durham was held on Wednesday. A very interesting afternoon of discussion organised by Colin McFarlane with presentations by Andy Merrifield and Simon Marvin, and discussant comments from Gordon MacLeod along with my own paper. … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Gaston Gordillo, Henri Lefebvre, My Publications, Neil Brenner, Territory, urban/urbanisation | 8 Comments

Books I’ve read and plan to read

Posted on December 2, 2012 by stuartelden

A book meme I took from Rob Kitchin’s The View from the Blue House and first answered a year ago. As before I’ve largely answered in relation to non-academic reading… The book I’m currently reading? Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, China Mieville, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Derrida, Shakespearean Territories, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

Rhythm of Capital – Reading Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis

Posted on November 29, 2012 by stuartelden

A blog entitled Rhythm of Capital – Reading Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis provides lots of videos of rhythms to exemplify some of Lefebvre’s themes. It’s run by students of New Media at University of Amsterdam. I was pointed to this site by … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on November 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Chris Butler’s book on Lefebvre; Conley’s Spatial Ecologies; Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography (can’t quite believe I actually bought this); Campe’s The Game of Probability; first edition of Lindberg, The Beginning of Western Science (thanks Nick); a second-hand copy of … Continue reading →

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Gaston Gordillo – The Destruction of Space

Posted on November 7, 2012 by stuartelden

At Space and Politics, Gaston Gordillo has posted a fascinating excerpt from his forthcoming book The Afterlife of Places: Ruins and the Destruction of Space. Here’s the opening paragraph: The violent destruction of the void of the Gran Chaco by the state … Continue reading →

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New books received

Posted on October 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Some recently received books – mainly from University of Georgia Press in recompense for review work; an old and a new book bought from Verso; Kant’s Natural Science for review; and a copy of the Babel2  Diritto alla città collection … Continue reading →

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