Category Archives: People

Bruno Latour – new book

Posted on September 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Latour’s new book Enquête sur les modes d’existence is out in French next week, with an English translation following probably next year. Details of these, and much more, at his site. The result of a twenty five years inquiry, it … Continue reading →

Posted in Bruno Latour | Leave a comment

Schmitt in France – Jean-François Kervégan

Posted on September 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Actu Philosophia has a piece on one of France’s main Carl Schmitt commentators, Jean-François Kervégan.

Posted in Carl Schmitt | Tagged | Leave a comment

Graham Harman – Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy

Posted on September 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Graham Harman’s book on Lovecraft, Weird Realism is now out. As Hölderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarmé to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror … Continue reading →

Posted in Graham Harman, H.P. Lovecraft | Leave a comment

Forensic Architecture – new website

Posted on September 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Eyal Weizman’s Forensic Architecture project has a new website here. The Funambulist offers some thoughts here.

Posted in Eyal Weizman | Leave a comment

David Harvey on Rebel Cities

Posted on September 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Interview here – if you know anything about Harvey you should probably skip the intro…

Posted in David Harvey | Leave a comment

Self Organized Seminar – links and files

Posted on September 10, 2012 by stuartelden

This site has a lot of resources – some links and some files of questionable provenance. It includes a complete pdf of my book Understanding Henri Lefebvre for instance.

Posted in Henri Lefebvre, My Publications, Publishing | Leave a comment

Derek Gregory on Robert Kaplan, The Revenge of Geography

Posted on September 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Both Jeremy Crampton and I have mentioned Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography, to be published this week. Drawing on Kaplan’s previous work, and providing some useful links to other discussions, Derek Gregory discusses it here.

Posted in Derek Gregory, Politics, Territory | Tagged | 2 Comments

Žižek – The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

Posted on September 7, 2012 by stuartelden

The Verso blog has the news: After the success of The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, director Sophie Fiennes and the only philosopher-turned-film-star Slavoj Žižek return with The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology. Tonight marks the premiere of the film at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Slavoj Zizek | Leave a comment

Stuart Hall at 80

Posted on September 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting interview in the New Statesman – Englishness, the new Left, Gramsci, Labour, neoliberalism, etc. Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for the link.

Posted in Politics, Stuart Hall | Leave a comment

Forthcoming talks

Posted on September 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Several talks for the 2012/13 academic year have been arranged. Two lectures have been in the diary for a while – the Critical International and Political Studies annual lecture at the University of Warwick in October (abstract here), and the George M. … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Immanuel Kant, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, Shakespearean Territories, Territory, The Space of the World, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment