Category Archives: People

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen on blogging and social media

Posted on January 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen has posted the text of a recent talk on blogging and social media, from the George Washington University symposium on Digital Humanities, at http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com.

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Judith Butler, Dispossession

Posted on January 26, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned Judith Butler’s recent Parting Ways before, but she has a new book coming out with Polity in the next month or so – Dispossession: The Performative in the Political. I’ve not seen this mentioned before. It’s a series … Continue reading →

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Parallel States Project

Posted on January 25, 2013 by stuartelden

At Lund University some interesting thinking on the Israel/Palestine situation in a venture called the Parallel States Project. The conference was in 2010 and I’m not sure what has happened since 2011. The site says they are cooperating with faculty from … Continue reading →

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‘How should we do the history of territory?’ – online

Posted on January 25, 2013 by stuartelden

My paper ‘How should we do the history of territory?’ is now online – forthcoming in the inaugural issue of the RSA journal Territory, Politics, Governance. The journal requires subscription, so if you can’t easily get hold of it, please … Continue reading →

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Robert Pippin on Žižek’s Less Than Nothing

Posted on January 23, 2013 by stuartelden

A detailed and thoughtful review at Mediations – thanks to Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz for the link.

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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 →

Posted in Boundaries, Conferences, Politics, Shakespearean Territories, Territory, William Shakespeare | 2 Comments

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