Category Archives: People

Neil Brenner (ed.) Implosions/Explosions – forthcoming

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Jovis Verlag have a page up for Neil Brenner’s collection, Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization. In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical … Continue reading →

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Fionnuala O’Neill response to my The Geopolitics of King Lear

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

In the same issue of Law and Literature that my paper “The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth” (free download) appears in, there is a piece by Fionnuala O’Neill entitled “Toward Tyranny: Geopolitics and Genre, A Response to Stuart Elden” (requires … Continue reading →

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The early Derrida on Heidegger, la question de l’Être et l’histoire

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Talking of Derrida on Heidegger, a 1964-65 course, entitled Heidegger, la question de l’Être et l’histoire is being published next month.

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Reading David Farrell Krell on Derrida and our Animal Others

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

David Farrell Krell has long been one of my favourite commentators on Heidegger and Nietzsche. He is the principal translator of Heidegger’s multi-volume book on Nietzsche, as well as Basic Writings and some other texts, wrote the great book Daimon … Continue reading →

Posted in David Farrell Krell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Universities | 5 Comments

Earth, Terricide, Geo-metrics

Posted on September 5, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve now nearly finished writing my keynote lecture for the Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance workshop at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (September 19-20). The title is “Geo-metrics” (abstract here). This is the third in a sequence of … Continue reading →

Posted in Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Conferences, Elizabeth Grosz, Eugen Fink, Henri Lefebvre, Kostas Axelos, Martin Heidegger, Politics, Publishing, Speaking Against Number, Writing | 3 Comments

Shakespeare in Stratford

Posted on September 4, 2013 by stuartelden

One of the things I was looking forward to about being in the Midlands again was the proximity to Stratford-on-Avon. Susan and I went to see Titus Andronicus at the end of August, and I’ve booked tickets for As You … Continue reading →

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The Stuart Hall project – film out this week

Posted on September 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Highly acclaimed at this year’s Sundance and Sheffield Documentary festivals, the new film from award-winning documentarian John Akomfrah (The Nine Muses) is a sensitive, emotionally charged portrait of cultural theorist Stuart Hall. A founding figure of contemporary cultural studies – … Continue reading →

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Ian Hacking on DSM-5: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Posted on September 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Ian Hacking reviews DSM-5: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in the London Review of Books (open access). Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link.

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Foucault’s 1970-71 course Lectures on the Will to Know reviewed in The New Inquiry

Posted on September 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Christopher Chitty reviews Foucault’s 1970-71 course Lectures on the Will to Know in The New Inquiry. Thanks to John Protevi for the link.

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John Protevi, Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences – reviewed by Todd May

Posted on September 3, 2013 by stuartelden

John Protevi’s Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences is reviewed by Todd May at NDPR.

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