Category Archives: People

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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How people die in Shakespeare’s tragedies

Posted on March 1, 2013 by stuartelden

via Biblioklept.

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Mark Kelly, Foucault’s ‘History of Sexuality Volume I, The Will to Knowledge’

Posted on February 28, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Kelly’s guide to Foucault’s ‘History of Sexuality Volume I, The Will to Knowledge’ is now out. Mark is the author of the very good The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault – I examined the PhD that was based on … Continue reading →

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