Category Archives: People

Foucault: The Birth of Power cover and description (forthcoming early 2017)

Posted on September 1, 2016 by stuartelden

Here is the cover for Foucault: The Birth of Power. The book is forthcoming in early 2017 with Polity, and the design fits with Foucault’s Last Decade which came out earlier this year. There is a lot about Foucault’s political activism in … Continue reading →

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Stephen Graham, Vertical – forthcoming with Verso/Penguin

Posted on September 1, 2016 by stuartelden

Stephen Graham’s new book, Vertical: The City from Sateillites to Bunkers, is forthcoming with Verso/Penguin-Random House. From the penthouse to the sewers—the political geography of the vertical city Vertical is a brilliant re-imagining of the world we live in. Today we … Continue reading →

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Deleuze seminars to be translated by Daniel Smith

Posted on September 1, 2016 by stuartelden

Deleuze seminars to be translated by Daniel Smith. Full report here (via Graham Harman). WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue University professor of philosophy has a received $175,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to translate the seminar … Continue reading →

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Martin Heidegger, The History of Beyng reviewed at NDPR

Posted on August 31, 2016 by stuartelden

Martin Heidegger, The History of Beyng is reviewed at NDPR by Mark Wrathall. Here’s the first paragraph: This volume — a new translation of volume 69 of the Gesamtausgabe or “Complete Edition” of Heidegger’s work — consists of two distinct parts: … Continue reading →

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Adam David Morton, For a Political Economy of Space and Place – video and audio

Posted on August 31, 2016 by stuartelden

Adam David Morton’s inaugural lecture ‘For a Political Economy of Space and Place’ is available on video and audio. Under capitalism, how does the state organise space in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the … Continue reading →

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Setha Low, Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place – forthcoming from Routledge

Posted on August 31, 2016 by stuartelden

Setha Low, Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place – forthcoming from Routledge. This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, … Continue reading →

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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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