Category Archives: Neil Brenner

Territory, Communication, Speed

Posted on August 15, 2011 by stuartelden

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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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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Neil Brenner to join GSD

Posted on May 1, 2011 by stuartelden

Congratulations to my good friend and research collaborator Neil Brenner, who has just accepted a post as Professor of Urban Theory in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. The GSD is doing some really interesting work, including the journal … Continue reading →

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Society and Space free access highlight papers

Posted on April 5, 2011 by stuartelden

These have been available for a while, but there are a number of papers in Society and Space that are free access as highlights of recently published work. They include papers by Judith Butler; Peter Sloterdijk; Naomi Klein and Neil … Continue reading →

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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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review of State, Space, World

Posted on November 30, 2010 by stuartelden

There is a brief review of the Lefebvre collection State, Space, World in the new issue of Contemporary Sociology. Although the book has been out for eighteen months, this is the first review to be published to my knowledge (leaving … Continue reading →

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Chapter Eight

Posted on November 29, 2010 by stuartelden

Chapter Eight is now done. It needed work in two main areas – expanding and developing the treatment of Luther; and dramatically cutting down the discussion of King Lear. The Lear material might make a journal article in its expanded … Continue reading →

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Brenner and Elden on Lefebvre, now in Italian

Posted on November 16, 2010 by stuartelden

The piece Neil Brenner and I wrote on Lefebvre – “Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory”, International Political Sociology, Vol 3 No 4, 2009, pp. 353–377 – has now been translated into Italian – “Stato, Spazio e Territorio”, translated by Pasquale Alferj, … Continue reading →

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