Category Archives: People

Graham Harman and Bruno Latour discussions on waste

Posted on August 31, 2016 by stuartelden

Graham Harman and Bruno Latour discussions on waste – conducted by Daniel Fetzner in Cairo (Harman) and Daniel Fetzner & Martin Dornberg in Karlsruhe (Latour). The text of the discussions can be downloaded here. Project website and video here.  

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David Harvey lecture series in NYC – Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History

Posted on August 31, 2016 by stuartelden

David Harvey lecture series in New York – Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History. Free and open to the public.

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Early Modern Literary Geographies – 14-15 October 2016

Posted on August 30, 2016 by stuartelden

Early Modern Literary Geographies, Huntington library, San Marino, CA, 14-15 October 2016 –  details here or download the programme brochure The conference is organised around the themes of Body, House, Neighbourhood, and Region. I’ll be speaking in the last of these … Continue reading →

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Books received – Marshall, Shakespeare, O’Lear & Dalby, Mitchell, Harvey

Posted on August 30, 2016 by stuartelden

Back from holiday, a mix of recently received books. The Routledge ones are in recompense for review work, as is Shakespeare and Space. The others were picked up second-hand for various projects.

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Who Wrote Shakespeare? – Martin Wiggins on collaboration at the BBC website

Posted on August 30, 2016 by stuartelden

Who Wrote Shakespeare? – Martin Wiggins at the BBC website. The discussion is not of the para-academic debate about whether William Shakespeare wrote the plays that bear his name, but rather about the collaborative nature of some of them – … Continue reading →

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Finishing with Foucault, working on Shakespeare and now a holiday

Posted on August 17, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve now finished work on Foucault: The Birth of Power – the corrections to the proofs have been sent off. In the past several weeks I’ve been working hard on Shakespeare, and have got several chapters into draft state. I’m going to … Continue reading →

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Louise Amoore on ‘Cloud geographies: Computing, data, sovereignty’ in Progress in Human Geography

Posted on August 17, 2016 by stuartelden

Louise Amoore on ‘Cloud geographies: Computing, data, sovereignty’ in Progress in Human Geography (requires subscription). The architecture of cloud computing is becoming ever more closely intertwined with geopolitics – from the sharing of intelligence data, to border controls, immigration decisions, … Continue reading →

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Books received – Extraterritorialities, Dunleavy, review work for Routledge, Shakespeare

Posted on August 12, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve done three manuscript reviews for Routledge this summer, and this is the first instalment of books in recompense. Also in the pile, a copy of Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds, in which I have a chapter; an inspection copy of … Continue reading →

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8 Critical Theory books that came out in July 2016

Posted on August 5, 2016 by stuartelden

Another useful roundup – Benjamin, Malabou, Althusser et. al., Lefebvre, etc.  

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Top 10 works of fiction by philosophers

Posted on August 5, 2016 by stuartelden

Esther Leslie has an interesting piece in The Guardian on fictions by philosophers. Benjamin, Goethe, Marx, Nietzsche et. al. Just one woman in the list. Leslie is one of the translators of Walter Benjamin’s The Storyteller, just out with Verso.

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