Category Archives: People

Foucault-Chomsky debate – in full, with subtitles

Posted on May 14, 2013 by stuartelden

You may need to turn the captions on to see the subtitles. Thanks to Philippe Theophanidis and Agostino Mantegna for sending me the link.

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Books received

Posted on May 14, 2013 by stuartelden

A lot of books arrived while I was away. Many of these are background reading on Israel/Palestine, a couple of which I’d read before, but Maha Samman’s Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine is to review; the new issues of Society … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, John Sallis, Paul Virilio, Politics, Territory | 3 Comments

Stiegler and Technics

Posted on May 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Stiegler and Technics, edited by Christina Howells and Gerald Moore, is due out in September with Edinburgh University Press.

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Terricide and Terracide

Posted on May 1, 2013 by stuartelden

Developing the work on the concept of ‘earth’ that I am currently undertaking, my RGS-IBG paper this year is on ‘Terricide‘, a concept taken from Henri Lefebvre’s De l’État. In De l’État, Lefebvre suggests (Vol I, p. 39) that he takes … Continue reading →

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Esposito, Third Person reviewed at NDPR

Posted on April 30, 2013 by stuartelden

Roberto Esposito’s Third Person is reviewed at NDPR.  

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Wu Ming interview

Posted on April 29, 2013 by stuartelden

The novelist-collective Wu Ming are interviewed in Art Review about their new novel Altai, a sequel to Q, which appeared under their previous ‘name’ of Luther Blissett.

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Deleuze, Lefebvre, Gadamer, Dworkin, Gandhi, Churchill

Posted on April 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Some interesting company in the Bloomsbury Revelations series…

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After Neoliberalism? The Kilburn Manifesto

Posted on April 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin launch the Kilburn Manifesto. Stuart Hall explains the purpose in The Guardian; and the first chapter can be downloaded here. Although the neoliberal economic settlement is unravelling, its  political underpinning remains largely unchallenged. … Continue reading →

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Social Justice and the City at 40

Posted on April 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Details of a conference in New York celebrating 40 years of David Harvey’s classic Social Justice and the City (via Harvey’s blog).

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On writing books

Posted on April 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Yesterday I reblogged Graham Harman’s post about his forthcoming Latour book Prince of Nodes (a sequel to Prince of Networks). In that post he reflects on how this means he is contracted to write three books simultaneously.  He suggests that … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Michel Foucault, Publishing, Shakespearean Territories, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World, Writing | 2 Comments