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Dark Chemistry reviews Graham Harman, Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy

Posted on September 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Extended review of Weird Realism at the Dark Chemistry blog.

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Richard Seymour – The territorial logic of the capitalist state

Posted on September 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting post at Lenin’s Tomb on contemporary politics, states and spaces. Some discussion of Lefebvre, Gregory, Arrighi, and Harvey.

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Negri on Agamben, Opus Dei

Posted on September 23, 2012 by stuartelden

Antonio Negri discusses Agamben’s Opus Dei, and his work more generally (via Peter Gratton and AUFS).

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Clive Barnett review of Ash Amin, Land of Strangers

Posted on September 19, 2012 by stuartelden

At the LSE Review of Books, Clive Barnett reviews Ash Amin’s Land of Strangers.

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Lefebvre on Hitler

Posted on September 19, 2012 by stuartelden

As I’ve previously mentioned, there is a new Italian translation of Henri Lefebvre’s early book Hitler au pouvoir, les enseignements de cinq années de fascisme en Allemagne, Paris: Bureau d’Éditions, 1938. Though I don’t read Italian, I got hold of … Continue reading →

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New books received

Posted on September 19, 2012 by stuartelden

A pile of new books received recently. Foucault’s Mal faire, dire vrai is probably the first I will tackle. The Polity ones here were in recompense for a review of a manuscript for them; Alex Jeffrey kindly sent me a copy … Continue reading →

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Reading Shakespeare in Nigeria

Posted on September 19, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve was in Nigeria again the last ten days. It’s not exactly a place for a holiday so when Susan was working in the week I was working hard on the Shakespearean Territories project. I’ve been combining reading plays I … Continue reading →

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Two Geographical Imaginations posts

Posted on September 18, 2012 by stuartelden

Derek Gregory’s blog Geographical Imaginations has fast become a must-read. Here are two very interesting recent posts – one on Trevor Paglen’s work on US military patches; and one on Judith Butler’s new thoughts on Antigone, inspired by Anne Carson’s … Continue reading →

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Du Gouvernement des vivants – more details

Posted on September 18, 2012 by stuartelden

Foucault’s 1979-80 course is forthcoming in a little over a month – the date has been put back a couple of weeks. Seuil now has a page up, which Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault News blog has just linked to. Both Clare … Continue reading →

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Poster and Website for Warwick ‘Shakespearean Territories’ lecture

Posted on September 14, 2012 by stuartelden

The abstract for my lecture at University of Warwick has been posted online. They’ve also produced this poster.  It will be ten years almost to the day that I left the department, though I’ve been back a few times to give talks or … Continue reading →

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