Category Archives: People

Urban/Territory/World

Posted on December 7, 2012 by stuartelden

The ‘Thinking Urban Worlds’ workshop at Durham was held on Wednesday. A very interesting afternoon of discussion organised by Colin McFarlane with presentations by Andy Merrifield and Simon Marvin, and discussant comments from Gordon MacLeod along with my own paper. … Continue reading →

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Gregynog Ideas Lab II

Posted on December 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Details now available of the second Postinternational Politics summer school in Gregynog, Wales.

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Film inspired by Paul Virilio’s Bunker Archaeology

Posted on December 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Short film inspired by Paul Virilio’s Bunker Archaeology. I discuss this in the ‘Secure the Volume’ paper forthcoming in Political Geography. Thanks to Bradley Garrett for the link. RUIN VALUE from robindegoede on Vimeo.

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Routledge books received

Posted on December 5, 2012 by stuartelden

I did some review work for Routledge a while back. These are the books I received in recompense – mainly some Judith Butler books I’d read but didn’t own; some for the Shakespeare project; and David Delaney’s The Spatial, the … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on December 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Another pile of books. David Martin-Jones, Deleuze and World Cinemas; the Heidegger & Nietzsche collection I have a piece in; the new biography of Derrida and Beyond Walls and Cages in recompense for review work; another one of Jean Gottmann’s works; … Continue reading →

Posted in Giacomo Marramao, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jean Gottmann, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault | Leave a comment

METAphorisms – Tim Morton and Tammy Lu

Posted on December 4, 2012 by stuartelden

A collaborative short piece by Tim Morton and Tammy Lu.

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Mapping… – reissue of the series from Verso

Posted on December 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Verso have reissued their Mapping series.  Mapping Ideology; edited by Slavoj Žižek; Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial, edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi and Mapping the Nation edited by Gopal Balakrishnan.

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Babette Babich on the books that inspired her

Posted on December 3, 2012 by stuartelden

At the LSE blog, Babette Babich discusses the books that inspired her – wide-ranging and fascinating reading. Babette Babich is an American philosopher known for her studies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, and Hölderlin as well as for her work in … Continue reading →

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Books I’ve read and plan to read

Posted on December 2, 2012 by stuartelden

A book meme I took from Rob Kitchin’s The View from the Blue House and first answered a year ago. As before I’ve largely answered in relation to non-academic reading… The book I’m currently reading? Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, China Mieville, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Derrida, Shakespearean Territories, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

Chris Philo – ‘A great space of murmurings’

Posted on December 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Chris Philo, “‘A great space of murmurings’: Madness, romance and geography”, Progress in Human Geography, online early (requires subscription). Prompted by the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Foucault’s famous book commonly known in English as Madness and Civilization, … Continue reading →

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