Category Archives: People

The Birth of Territory endorsements

Posted on May 16, 2013 by stuartelden

As The Birth of Territory inches towards publication, the University of Chicago Press page now has three endorsements for the book. Neil Brenner, Harvard University “Stuart Elden has written a pathbreaking book on a foundational concept in modern political and … Continue reading →

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Leibniz archive

Posted on May 16, 2013 by stuartelden

A very interesting post by Stephen Wolfram about working in the Leibniz archive, with plenty of photographs of his manuscripts (via Leiter Reports).

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Badiou on Beckett – freely available book pdf

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Alain Badiou’s book On Beckett, translated by Nina Power and Alberto Toscano, available as a free pdf download here.

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Hacking – Pluto, Plutocrats & Plutonium

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Thanks to Elliot Jarbe for the link – Ian Hacking recently gave a lecture in Berlin which elaborated on the Pluto theme. Details here. Elliot asks if anyone knows the link to the audio recording – please add as a … Continue reading →

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Ian Hacking in Northumbria

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

As a break from marking and catching up on journal work and email, I headed up the A1 to Newcastle to hear Ian Hacking speak at the University of Northumbria. I really like his early books The Emergence of Probability … Continue reading →

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Harman on Nancy, Badiou, Heidegger, Latour

Posted on May 15, 2013 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has been providing links to some of his papers “On Interface: Nancy’s Weights and Masses” “Bruno Latour and the Politics of Nature” “Badiou’s Relation to Heidegger in Theory of the Subject” All links via his Object-Orientated Philosophy blog.

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Foucault-Chomsky debate – in full, with subtitles

Posted on May 14, 2013 by stuartelden

You may need to turn the captions on to see the subtitles. Thanks to Philippe Theophanidis and Agostino Mantegna for sending me the link.

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Books received

Posted on May 14, 2013 by stuartelden

A lot of books arrived while I was away. Many of these are background reading on Israel/Palestine, a couple of which I’d read before, but Maha Samman’s Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine is to review; the new issues of Society … Continue reading →

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Stiegler and Technics

Posted on May 4, 2013 by stuartelden

Stiegler and Technics, edited by Christina Howells and Gerald Moore, is due out in September with Edinburgh University Press.

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Terricide and Terracide

Posted on May 1, 2013 by stuartelden

Developing the work on the concept of ‘earth’ that I am currently undertaking, my RGS-IBG paper this year is on ‘Terricide‘, a concept taken from Henri Lefebvre’s De l’État. In De l’État, Lefebvre suggests (Vol I, p. 39) that he takes … Continue reading →

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