Category Archives: People

Foucault.info

Posted on January 19, 2013 by stuartelden

The website http://www.foucault.info has been redesigned with some new material. Lots of useful resources here.

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David Macey’s biography of Frantz Fanon

Posted on January 19, 2013 by stuartelden

David Macey, who sadly died in 2011, wrote an excellent biography of Foucault. His biography of Frantz Fanon was reissued late last year with new material included. Full details here.

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Speculative Medievalisms e-book

Posted on January 18, 2013 by stuartelden

The Speculative Medievalisms books is now available to for free download or to buy in print. If you do download, consider leaving a donation – free access does not mean no cost to produce. I was at one of the … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Colonial Territories – audio and maps

Posted on January 17, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk to the Sociology Department at the University of York is available here. In the talk I discuss two maps – one from Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) of the Roman Empire: And this example … Continue reading →

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Earth – rethinking geopolitics

Posted on January 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Here’s my abstract for CityState: A Lexical Workshop later this year in Tel Aviv: Earth Geopolitics has, today, become effectively a synonym for global politics. Armchair strategists still come up with grand plans for understanding and changing the world; critical geopolitics … Continue reading →

Posted in Carl Schmitt, Conferences, Elizabeth Grosz, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Martin Heidegger, Politics, Territory | 2 Comments

Kant’s Geographies – review of Natural Science

Posted on January 15, 2013 by stuartelden

My review of the Natural Science volume of Kant’s writings has now been published at the Berfrois website.

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Sociology at York – Sociology and Space seminar series

Posted on January 15, 2013 by stuartelden

On Wednesday I’m going down to York to speak to the Sociology department – their blog has details of the whole term’s seminar programme, all on the theme of ‘Sociology and Space’. It’s a really interesting programme, with people from Geography, … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on January 15, 2013 by stuartelden

A pile of new books including six Polity titles received in recompense for review work, Tom McCarthy’s novel C, Esposito’s Living Thought, and a few by Hegel for a possible future project.

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Two posts on the Zapatistas

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Two interesting posts on the Zapatistas – at Territorial Masquerades and For the Desk Drawer. Both look at related questions around territory and geopolitics, both explicitly relate to Lefebvre’s work in various ways, but there are links to his writings on … Continue reading →

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Reading Kant’s Geography – Atlanta APA Eastern talk audio

Posted on January 14, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk at the APA Eastern can be found here. I talk a bit about the session as a whole here. My talk draws on my 2009 paper “Reassessing Kant’s Geography” and also on my review of … Continue reading →

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