Category Archives: People

Association of American Geographers conference in Chicago – Ebola, Terrain and Lauren Berlant’s Society and Space lectures

Posted on April 19, 2015 by stuartelden

You’ll have to get up early to see me present at the Association of American Geographers conference in Chicago next week. Both sessions are at 8am. 21 April 2015, “The Multiple Geographies of Ebola”, as part of a panel session on (Geo)politics … Continue reading →

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Books received – Peck and Theodore, Mauriac, Krell, Drischler

Posted on April 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Books received – Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore’s Fast Policy in recompense for review work; another volume of Claude Mauriac’s memoirs for the Foucault project; David Farrell Krell’s Phantoms of the Other to review; and two papers on Leibniz sent by … Continue reading →

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Jeff Malpas, On the Reading of Heidegger – Situating the Black Notebooks

Posted on April 16, 2015 by stuartelden

Jeff Malpas, “On the Reading of Heidegger – Situating the Black Notebooks” at academia.edu. This is the draft introduction to a forthcoming collection on the Notebooks, co-edited with Ingo Farin. Thanks to Enowning for the link. Peter Gratton comments at … Continue reading →

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Interview with Saskia Sassen at Figure/Ground

Posted on April 16, 2015 by stuartelden

A brief interview with Saskia Sassen at Figure/Ground, mainly on teaching and changing technologies.

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Volha Piotukh, Biopolitics, Governmentality and Humanitarianism: ‘Caring’ for the Population in Afghanistan and Belarus

Posted on April 16, 2015 by stuartelden

Volha Piotukh, Biopolitics, Governmentality and Humanitarianism: ‘Caring’ for the Population in Afghanistan and Belarus. This book critically analyses the changing role and nature of post-Cold War humanitarianism, using Foucault’s theories of biopolitics and governmentality. It offers a compelling and insightful … Continue reading →

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Discussion of the work of Franco Moretti in New Rambler Review

Posted on April 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Discussion of the work of Franco Moretti in New Rambler Review.

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The Function of Criticism at the Present Time – on the work of Lauren Berlant

Posted on April 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Interesting piece in the LA Review of Books, “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time“, which looks at the work of Lauren Berlant. Berlant will be giving the Society and Space lecture at the Association of American Geographers meeting … Continue reading →

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Jacques Derrida’s early essay on Shakespeare’s idea of Kingship – ‘Quite unintelligible’

Posted on April 12, 2015 by stuartelden

This page of an assignment by Jacques Derrida on Shakespeare is quite wonderful. He would have been 19-20 years old, while in a khâgne class – post-school, pre-university. While the teacher’s comment that some of this is ‘quite unintelligible’ is very funny; … Continue reading →

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Catherine Malabou 2015 Wellek Lectures – “Metamorphoses of Intelligence”

Posted on April 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Catherine Malabou will give the 2015 Wellek Lectures on May 20-22. The topic is “Metamorphoses of Intelligence”. The Critical Theory Institute at UC Irvine presents the Wellek Library Lectures, featuring Catherine Malbou. Malabou will be giving three lectures on “Metamorphoses of Intelligence.” … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy – forthcoming in 2016 from Verso with introduction by Stuart Elden

Posted on April 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre’s fundamental book Métaphilosophie is forthcoming in translation in Spring 2016 from Verso. It will have an introduction from me. Further details when available. I’ve long wanted this book to be translated – hopefully as the first of a few of … Continue reading →

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