Category Archives: People

Steve Mentz on Kenneth Branagh’s Macbeth

Posted on June 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Steve Mentz has a good piece about Kenneth Branagh’s Macbeth at his blog. You can read my take here.

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Interview about the ‘Governing Academic Life’ conference

Posted on June 6, 2014 by stuartelden

In advance of the ‘Governing Academic Life’ conference later this month, to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Foucault’s death, an interview with the organisers.

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The work of editing – adding references to translations

Posted on June 6, 2014 by stuartelden

Over the past few weeks, around other things, I’ve been editing a translation of a book for a new press. I’ll post details of the book when the website is available. A lot of the work has been checking the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Martin Heidegger, Publishing, Writing | 7 Comments

Books received – Verso (3 of 3)

Posted on June 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Some of these I’ve read already due to Verso’s excellent e-book bundling. I wish more publishers would do this.  

Posted in Books, Etienne Balibar, Frantz Fanon, Jacques Rancière, Slavoj Zizek | 4 Comments

Books received – Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Lefebvre etc. (2 of 3)

Posted on June 3, 2014 by stuartelden

The new translation of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morality; Lefebvre’s Trois textes pour le theâtre; Virilio’s Open Sky; Trawny’s Heidegger und der Mythos der jüdischen Weltverschwörung; Harvey’s The Urban Experience; the new edition of a … Continue reading →

Posted in David Harvey, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Paul Virilio, Politics | 1 Comment

Books received – territory, borders, architecture, government (1 of 3)

Posted on June 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Working through the post… Saskia Sassen’s Expulsions and Darshan Vigneswaran’s Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System – both to review; Jones and Johnston’s Placing the Border in Everyday Life – which I endorsed; and Lemm and Vatter’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Eyal Weizman, Politics, Saskia Sassen, Territory | 1 Comment

Gerry Kearns reviews The Birth of Territory – and a minor note on ‘land’

Posted on June 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Gerry Kearns has written a review of The Birth of Territory for Society and Space. My sincere thanks to Gerry, and Veronica della Dora, who commissioned the review. The review is available open access, so I won’t quote from it here. It’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in Clarence J. Glacken, David N. Livingstone, Derek Gregory, Society and Space, The Birth of Territory | 3 Comments

Critical Theory books that came out in May

Posted on June 3, 2014 by stuartelden

A nice round-up of some recent books – Derrida, Laclau, Lefebvre, Damlé, Flusser, etc. -at critical-theory.com  

Posted in Books, Ernesto Laclau, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Derrida | 1 Comment

Shakespeare in New York: Kenneth Branagh as Macbeth – a short review

Posted on June 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Warning: if you are planning on seeing this production of Macbeth, I’d suggest not reading further. There are spoilers about the production I would not have wanted to know beforehand.     The staging of Macbeth at the Park Avenue … Continue reading →

Posted in Shakespearean Territories, William Shakespeare | 8 Comments

Simon Russell Beale as King Lear; Kenneth Branagh as Macbeth

Posted on May 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Tomorrow – my last full day in New York – will be a day of Shakespeare. At lunch time I am going to see the ‘live in Cinema’ screening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music of King Lear with Simon Russell Beale … Continue reading →

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