Category Archives: People

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 →

Posted in Conferences, Neil Brenner, Publishing, Territory, urban/urbanisation | Tagged | 1 Comment

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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Latour’s third and fourth Gifford lectures

Posted on March 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Latour’s third lecture – The Puzzling Face of a Secular Gaia and the fourth lecture – The Anthropocene and the Destruction of the Image of the Globe The first and second are available here and here.

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Posted on March 1, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
I’ve been busy (too much so for blogging, sadly) with work on a volume on Nietzsche and political thought, which I am co-editing. More details when the publication tome comes closer. One thing I’ve noticed is…

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