Category Archives: People

Citizenship after Orientalism: enacting Europe in times of crisis

Posted on March 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Citizenship after Orientalism: enacting Europe in times of crisis Wednesday, 27 March 2013 (All day), European Parliament (morning) and European Economic and Social Committee (afternoon), Brussels 2013 as the European Year of Citizens is a time to reflect on the … Continue reading →

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William E. Connolly – The Fragility of Things

Posted on March 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Bill Connolly’s new book, The Fragility of Things, is coming out in August. A blog post from 2010 discusses the topic; as does this talk at McGill University.

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Rory Rowan’s PhD thesis on Carl Schmitt

Posted on March 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Rory Rowan’s recently passed PhD thesis, The Crisis of Political Form: The Question of Space in the Work of Carl Schmitt, is available online.

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Books received

Posted on March 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Three volumes of the Stanford Nietzsche translations; Stefano Guzzini’s The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? and the ‘Speculative Geographies’ volume of The State.

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Heidegger – Nature, History, State: 1933-1934

Posted on March 7, 2013 by stuartelden

[update: thanks to Harvey Shoolman for details – the hardback of this is now published; a paperback is due in 2015. The seminars were published in German in the Heidegger Jahrbuch vols 4 and 5]. Intriguing news of a new volume … Continue reading →

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New Geographies 5 – The Mediterranean

Posted on March 4, 2013 by stuartelden

New Geographies, Vol 5, is out shortly. There is a launch event at the Graduate School of Design later this month. Most literature on the Mediterranean regarding architecture and urbanism has focused on the idea of the Mediterranean city and … Continue reading →

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Bruno Latour – fifth and sixth Gifford lectures

Posted on March 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Links to the first four can be found here.

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Books received

Posted on March 4, 2013 by stuartelden

John Sallis, Logic of Imagination; the reissue of Michael Watts, Silent Violence; Paul Virilio’s The Great Accelerator, and Paidraig Carmody, The New Scramble for Africa.

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Andrew Barry, Material Politics

Posted on March 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Andrew Barry’s new book Material Politics: Disputes Along the Pipeline is forthcoming in September in the RGS-IBG book series. In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political … Continue reading →

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Franco Moretti, Distant Reading and The Bourgeois

Posted on March 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Franco Moretti’s book of essays, Distant Reading, is coming out in June. He also has a book entitled The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature coming out at the same time. The Verso blog has a post about his work here. How … Continue reading →

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