Category Archives: People

Boko Haram – An Annotated Bibliography

Posted on February 14, 2013 by stuartelden

  Update 27 March 2013 – an updated version of this bibliography is available here. This is an incomplete bibliography, but includes the pieces I’ve read while writing a piece on questions of territory in relation to Boko Haram (see … Continue reading →

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Timothy Morton, Realist Magic

Posted on February 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Timothy Morton’s new book Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality is now available to read online open access – print and pdf to follow presumably.

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John Sallis, Logic of Imagination: The Expanse of the Elemental

Posted on February 14, 2013 by stuartelden

John Sallis’s latest book, Logic of Imagination: The Expanse of the Elemental, is reviewed at NDPR. Here’s the publisher’s information – looks very interesting. The Shakespearean image of a tempest and its aftermath forms the beginning as well as a major … Continue reading →

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Hegel et l’Afrique

Posted on February 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Actu Philosophia has an interesting piece on a study of Hegel and Africa – piece and book in French.

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Terricide – Lefebvre, Geopolitics and the Killing of the Earth

Posted on February 8, 2013 by stuartelden

This is my abstract for the August 2013 Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) annual conference. It will be part of the sessions organised by Nigel Clark, Kathryn Yusoff and Arun Saldanha on ‘Geo-Social Formations: Capitalism and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Henri Lefebvre, Kostas Axelos, Politics, Territory | 6 Comments

Judith Butler’s remarks at Brooklyn College

Posted on February 8, 2013 by stuartelden

The Nation has published Judith Butler’s talk to the event at Brooklyn College on the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.

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Exhuming Mackinder

Posted on February 8, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography before, along with some critical reviews, but I’ve now read the damn thing. One of the most peculiar elements is the attempt to exhume Mackinder, as if this is the cutting edge … Continue reading →

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Secure the Volume – Political Geography paper available

Posted on February 7, 2013 by stuartelden

My paper “Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power” has now been published by Political Geography in their ‘articles in press’ section [open access here]. They’ve not yet posted the responses by Peter Adey and Gavin Bridge … Continue reading →

Posted in My Publications, Paul Virilio, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Territory | 8 Comments

Lefebvre, autogestion, Mexico and Turkey

Posted on February 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Ertan Erol, one of Adam David Morton’s PhD students, discusses how Lefebvre’s notion of autogestion, especially in the State, Space, World collection is helpful in understanding spaces of difference and capitalist space in Mexico and Turkey at For the Desk … Continue reading →

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Anti-Security – A Declaration

Posted on February 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Finally got round to looking at a copy of Anti-Security, edited by Mark Neocleous and George S. Rigakos, which came out in 2011. After a brief introduction, there is a powerful ‘declaration’ which sets out the academic and political rationale … Continue reading →

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