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Louise Amoore, The Politics of Possibility

Posted on April 19, 2013 by stuartelden

My friend and Durham colleague Louise Amoore’s forthcoming book, The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability, now has a page up at Duke University Press site. It looks great: Since September 11, 2001, the imagination of “low probability, … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on April 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Rosi Bradotti, The Posthuman; Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy (to review); Laurence Hemming’s Heidegger and Marx (which I endorsed); Neve Gordon’s Israel’s Occupation; the launch issue of Territory, Politics, Governance (which has an essay from me in it); … Continue reading →

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Albert Toscano on Fanaticism

Posted on April 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Alberto Toscano has a new piece at the Verso blog, which is the preface to the forthcoming Korean edition of his book Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea.

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Sloterdijk paper from the AAG

Posted on April 16, 2013 by stuartelden

My talk on Peter Sloterdijk at the AAG, especially looking at In the World Interior of Capital, is available here. The conference was held in the Westin Bonaventure hotel – something I refer to around 14 minutes in. The air-conditioning … Continue reading →

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Social Justice and the City – CFP for Hong Kong Conference

Posted on April 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Call for Papers: An International Conference on Social Justice and the City Organised by Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, on 4th – 6th December, 2013 at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong In Memory of Neil Smith, Who Had Devoted … Continue reading →

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The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon

Posted on April 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Now listed on the Cambridge University Press website though not out until January 2014 – The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, edited by Leonard Lawlor and John Nale. This is an expensive reference work – I wrote the entry on ‘space’, which was about 2,600 … Continue reading →

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Leibniz paper forthcoming in Geographica Helvetica

Posted on April 15, 2013 by stuartelden

My paper on Leibniz, now under the title ‘Leibniz and Geography: Geologist, Palaeontologist, Biologist, Historian, Political Theorist and Geopolitician’ is forthcoming with Geographica Helvetica. Given that journal’s remit of crossing between linguistic traditions, it is a fitting home for a … Continue reading →

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Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality – e-book

Posted on April 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality, an open-access e-book edited by Sven-Olov Wallenstein and Jakob Nilsson, with essays by Thomas Lemke, Johanna Oksala, Catherine Mills, Julian Reid, Lukasz Stanek, Helena Mattsson, Warren Neidich, Cecilia Sjoholm, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Adenna Mey. Foucault’s work on biopolitics and governmentality … Continue reading →

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The AAG meeting

Posted on April 13, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve spent the last week in Los Angeles for the Association of American Geographers annual meeting. It was mainly in the Westin Bonaventure hotel – made famous in the 1980s by the readings of Fredric Jameson and Edward Soja. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, David Harvey, Edward Soja, Events, Fredric Jameson, Neil Smith, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Publishing, Society and Space, Territory, Travel | 1 Comment

Taubes-Schmitt correspondence

Posted on April 12, 2013 by stuartelden

To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections by Jacob Taubes translated by Keith Tribe and with an introduction by Mike Grimshaw, has just been published by Columbia University Press. The announcement on the AUFS blog has a discount code.

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