Category Archives: People

Lefebvre on Hitler

Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

One of Lefebvre’s earliest books – very hard to find these days – was a short study of the first five years of Hitler’s dictatorship in Germany. Hitler au pouvoir, les enseignements de cinq années de fascisme en Allemagne, Paris: Bureau … Continue reading →

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Michael Watts – Silent Violence reissue forthcoming

Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Michael Watts’s classic Silent Violence: Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria is coming out in early 2013 with University of Georgia Press in their excellent Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation series. As well as some really good new … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler – Adorno prize

Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Judith Butler has been awarded the Adorno prize (press release in German here). Given the remit of the prize, and Butler’s reputation, this seems highly deserved. However there was a piece in The Jerusalem Post criticising the award because Butler … Continue reading →

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Some more free downloads

Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve been posting up old papers here for a while, but haven’t done any recently. Here are a few more: Elden, S. & Williams, A. The Territorial Integrity of Iraq, 2003-2007: Invocation, Violation, Viability. Geoforum. 2009;40:407-417. Elden, S. The War … Continue reading →

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LA review of books on Sloterdijk

Posted on August 27, 2012 by stuartelden

Review of Sloterdijk’s Bubbles: Spheres I here. Thanks to Sean Sturm and John Measor for the alert. If you’re looking for other things of Sloterdijk to read in English the bibliography Sean Sturm has compiled is invaluable.

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John Protevi on ‘How to begin reading Deleuze’

Posted on August 27, 2012 by stuartelden

John Protevi offers some good advice at New APPS. He starts with Deleuze’s book Spinoza: Practical Philosophy and then offers suggestions for primary and secondary literature.

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Gilles Deleuze, John Protevi | 6 Comments

Bernard Harcourt – The Illusion of Free Markets

Posted on August 26, 2012 by stuartelden

I finally got round to reading Bernard Harcourt, The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order. I bought it after The Foucault Effect 1991-2011 conference last year when Bernard spoke. I don’t have much to say, … Continue reading →

Posted in David Harvey, Mark Neocleous, Michel Foucault | 3 Comments

Urban Geopolitics

Posted on August 25, 2012 by stuartelden

At the Antipode blog, Marijn Nieuwenhuis has an interesting post on Urban Geopolitics in the wake of the London Olympics. He mentions the Territorial Support Group’s ‘Total Policing’ map I linked to a few weeks back. Marijn discusses Foucault and … Continue reading →

Posted in Michel Foucault, Politics, Stephen Graham, Territory, urban/urbanisation | 2 Comments

Ben Anderson on ‘rapid response’

Posted on August 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Ben Anderson has a piece on ‘Rapid Response’ at the Berfrois website, which begins with the shooting at the cinema in Aurora, but draws out more general issues about states of emergency. Phil Steinberg and Derek Gregory have both written … Continue reading →

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Peter Gratton – Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity audio available

Posted on August 25, 2012 by stuartelden

The audio recording of Peter Gratton’s talk ‘Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity’ at UWS is now available (from here, via’s Peter’s blog). Abstract: Much has been written about bio-political sovereignty in the wake of Giorgio Agamben’s work, which relies, … Continue reading →

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Carl Schmitt, Conferences, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Society and Space | 2 Comments