Category Archives: People

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 →

Posted in Shakespearean Territories, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

Derek Gregory interviewed at The Archipelago

Posted on May 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Derek Gregory interviewed by Léopold Lambert at The Archipelago.

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Barry Stocker’s reading of Foucault on the punitive society continues

Posted on May 26, 2014 by stuartelden

Lecture eight part one and two – Barry Stocker’s reading of Foucault’s La société punitive continues.

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Outside Territory – video recording of my 2012 Paris lecture

Posted on May 24, 2014 by stuartelden

This is the video recording of my talk at the Extraterritoriality conference of the Exterritory project in Paris in May 2012. Watching the video recording now, almost two years on, is a strange experience. I said a bit at the time about … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Shakespearean Territories, Territory, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

Phil Steinberg comments on Scotland’s Territorial Waters

Posted on May 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Phil Steinberg provides some analysis of the map on the cover of the report The Land of Scotland and the Common Good. You can read my initial comments – and see the full map and key – here. Phil is especially … Continue reading →

Posted in Boundaries, Philip Steinberg, Politics, Territory | Leave a comment