Category Archives: People

Aberystwyth-Lancaster Postgraduate Colloquium in International Relations

Posted on January 31, 2013 by stuartelden

University of Manchester, 5-7 June 2013. I spoke at this a couple of years ago when it was held in Durham. Keynotes this time are Maja Zehfuss and Mick Dillon – should be good.  

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Catherine Malabou Bodies in Movement seminar recordings

Posted on January 30, 2013 by stuartelden

Audio recordings of a seminar with Catherine Malabou at Edinburgh, part of the Bodies in Movement seminar series, are now available. Michael O’Rourke introduced, and there were responses from Jean-Paul Martinon, Tommy Lynch, Eszter Timar, Beth Lord and Liam Jones.

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John Protevi, Life, War, Earth

Posted on January 29, 2013 by stuartelden

In the post today, the manuscript of John Protevi’s new book, Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences, which I’ve agreed to endorse for University of Minnesota Press. Looking forward to reading this.

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Books received

Posted on January 28, 2013 by stuartelden

A couple of old translations of Hegel, Žižek’s fairly early book on Hegel, Judith Butler’s Parting Ways, Engin Isin’s Citizens without Frontiers, and Matthieu Rigoste, L’ennemi intérieur, borrowed from Gerald Moore.  

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Protevi on Glendinning, the EU, Widder and Deleuze

Posted on January 27, 2013 by stuartelden

John Protevi has an interesting post commenting on Simon Glendinning’s discussion of the EU and Nathan Widder’s book on Deleuze.

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen on blogging and social media

Posted on January 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen has posted the text of a recent talk on blogging and social media, from the George Washington University symposium on Digital Humanities, at http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com.

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Judith Butler, Dispossession

Posted on January 26, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned Judith Butler’s recent Parting Ways before, but she has a new book coming out with Polity in the next month or so – Dispossession: The Performative in the Political. I’ve not seen this mentioned before. It’s a series … Continue reading →

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Parallel States Project

Posted on January 25, 2013 by stuartelden

At Lund University some interesting thinking on the Israel/Palestine situation in a venture called the Parallel States Project. The conference was in 2010 and I’m not sure what has happened since 2011. The site says they are cooperating with faculty from … Continue reading →

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‘How should we do the history of territory?’ – online

Posted on January 25, 2013 by stuartelden

My paper ‘How should we do the history of territory?’ is now online – forthcoming in the inaugural issue of the RSA journal Territory, Politics, Governance. The journal requires subscription, so if you can’t easily get hold of it, please … Continue reading →

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Robert Pippin on Žižek’s Less Than Nothing

Posted on January 23, 2013 by stuartelden

A detailed and thoughtful review at Mediations – thanks to Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz for the link.

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