Category Archives: People

Shakespeare, Richard II query

Posted on March 16, 2016 by stuartelden

I’m trying to decipher a hand-written bibliography of books on Shakespeare, and one entry reads: “Sprich, Shakespeare, Richard II (1970)”. I can’t find such a book, so am assuming that ‘Sprich’ is not correct. The handwriting is poor, so it … Continue reading →

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Figure/Ground interview with Miguel de Beistegui

Posted on March 15, 2016 by stuartelden

Figure/Ground interview with Miguel de Beistegui – covers his work on Heidegger, Foucault, Proust and others.

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Tributes to Doreen Massey

Posted on March 13, 2016 by stuartelden

Tributes to Doreen Massey: Open University message board Joe Painter in Soundings Rob Kitchin at Ireland after NAMA; and ‘Geographers matter! Doreen Massey (1944-2016)‘ in Social and Cultural Geography Gillian Rose at Visual/Method/Culture Álvaro Sevilla Buitrago at Multipliciudades (in Spanish) Nicky … Continue reading →

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Doreen Massey (1944-2016)

Posted on March 12, 2016 by stuartelden

I’m hearing news on twitter that Doreen Massey has died. This is very sad, for family and friends of course, but also for Geography, where her work had a major impact. She was one of the geographers whose work I … Continue reading →

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Books received – Marcuse, Terrain Vague, Topologies of Power and Academic Writing for Graduate Students

Posted on March 11, 2016 by stuartelden

Books received – volumes 4, 5 and 6 of Herbert Marcuse’s Collected Papers, Terrain Vague: Interstices at the Edge of the Pale, and John Allen’s Topologies of Power from Routledge in recompense for review work; and Academic Writing for Graduate Students … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation (video interview)

Posted on March 11, 2016 by stuartelden

In 2015 in Prato I was interviewed for the ‘Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation‘ project, about Foucault’s late work and the Foucault’s Last Decade book. Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation is a two-year-long research project investigating the revival of ethical … Continue reading →

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New York and London launch events for Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds

Posted on March 11, 2016 by stuartelden

Details of the two launch events for the Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds collection, edited by Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela as part of the Exterritory Project. The book is available for a low-cost download or print-on-demand, and in time will … Continue reading →

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 12: Another trip to Paris and submission of the manuscript

Posted on March 9, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve spent most of my time since the last update working on Shakespeare, but I made a trip to Paris in February to do some further work on Foucault. At Richelieu site I continued working on the manuscripts, moving to boxes … Continue reading →

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Books received – Extraterritorialities, Elemental Ecocriticism, State Phobia and Civil Society and Shakespeare

Posted on March 8, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile of recent books. I have a chapter in Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds; Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert’s collection Elemental Ecocriticism, and Mitchell Dean and Kaspar Villadsen’s State Phobia and Civil Society were both sent by publishers, and … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre: Rural Sociology, Ground Rent and the Politics of Land – project funding from the ISRF

Posted on March 4, 2016 by stuartelden

I’m pleased to announce that along with Adam David Morton (Political Economy, University of Sydney) I have been awarded a small grant from the Independent Social Research Foundation for the project ‘Henri Lefebvre’s writings on Rural Sociology, Ground Rent and the Politics … Continue reading →

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