Category Archives: Henri Lefebvre

Society and Space issue 4 out

Posted on July 9, 2011 by stuartelden

This year’s issue 4 is now out. It contains papers on topics such as Lefebvre, border crossings, the world cup, bees, the city as assemblage and planning in East Jerusalem; along with an interview with Sandro Mezzandra, and four linked commentaries … Continue reading →

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Lefebvre on the State

Posted on May 31, 2011 by stuartelden

When we were putting together State, Space, World, Neil Brenner and I discussed many texts for inclusion. We couldn’t include everything, due to space considerations, and hopefully some of the texts that didn’t make that volume will be in a … Continue reading →

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Territorial Masquerades

Posted on May 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting newish blog called Territorial Masquerades by an anonymous political geographer . Mainly notes from reading so far. There are discussions of Lefebvre’s State, Space, World and the Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography collection I co-edited, along with lots … Continue reading →

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Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events

Posted on April 25, 2011 by stuartelden

Free e-book – Momentarily: Learning From Mega Events, available here. Strategic, simplified, spotless, homogenizing representations require a pluralistic response which engages the visual tactically. Unlike the image of Vancouver, the project’s category-defying qualities are not clear-cut nor easily pinned down. … Continue reading →

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More Lefebvre translations?

Posted on March 24, 2011 by stuartelden

Two publishers contact me on the same day about potential Lefebvre translations… I have some quite clear ideas of what of his so-far-untranslated work would be good, so hopefully this will lead to some new books in English.

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Lukasz Stanek on Lefebvre

Posted on March 13, 2011 by stuartelden

Details of Lukasz Stanek’s book on Lefebvre are now up online ahead of a July publication. Shows how Lefebvre’s theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology In this innovative work, Lukasz Stanek frames … Continue reading →

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Orders of translation

Posted on February 23, 2011 by stuartelden

In his comments on the Sloterdijk review, Peter Gratton ends by suggesting: It might have done Sloterdijk a favor to publish this work after the forthcoming English translations of the three volumes of Spheres. In this he’s absolutely right. To … Continue reading →

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Merrifield, Magical Marxism

Posted on February 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Andy Merrifield’s new book, Magical Marxism is now out. This develops ideas that were in a commentary piece for Society and Space a while back. Andy is author of books on Lefebvre and Debord, among others. (Thanks to Clive Barnett … Continue reading →

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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

Review of State, Space, World

Posted on January 22, 2011 by stuartelden

There’s a review of the Lefebvre collection Neil Brenner and I edited (and translated with Gerald Moore) in the new issue of Urban Studies. From the conclusion Lefebvre has shown that we have “passed from the production of things in … Continue reading →

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