Category Archives: People

25 years of Actuel Marx

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

An anniversary compilation of some of the best papers from Actuel Marx – details here. This is a journal that has been welcoming to my work – a piece here on Lefebvre’s posthumous reception, which later appeared in English in … Continue reading →

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Planetary Urbanization

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Left Kentucky yesterday and now in Cambridge, Massachusetts – staying with Neil Brenner for a bit before the Yale conference on 13-14 April. Neil and I are co-teaching a seminar at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on Wednesday as … Continue reading →

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Simon Critchley – The Faith of the Faithless and reading

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

via the Verso blog, an interview with Simon Critchley which mentions Obama and the Occupy movement, and a list of some of the books that inspired his latest book, The Faith of the Faithless.

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Graham Harman on Tristan Garcia

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Substantial review essay of Forme et objet here

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Quentin Meillassoux – The Number and the Siren

Posted on March 29, 2012 by stuartelden

Meillassoux’s second book is forthcoming with Urbanomic in May, translated by Robin MacKay. Details here.  

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Bruno Latour – Enquête sur les modes d’existence

Posted on March 28, 2012 by stuartelden

The detailed table of contents and introduction to Bruno Latour’s forthcoming book Enquête sur les modes d’existence- Une anthropologie des Modernes is available on his website. Thanks to ANTHEM for the link.

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Boys Town Redux – Antipode supplement to Society and Space virtual theme issue

Posted on March 26, 2012 by stuartelden

Our colleagues at Antipode have put together a supplement to the ‘Boys Town Redux’ virtual theme issue Mary Thomas assembled for the Society and Space open site. A good number of papers – Rosalyn Deutsche, David Harvey, Gerry Pratt, Doreen … Continue reading →

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Why is Lefebvre sometimes Lefèbvre?

Posted on March 25, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve just seen this again – where does the spelling Lefèbvre for Henri Lefebvre come from? I have all but three of his books in French, and it’s not on them. His biographer Rémi Hess doesn’t use it. Lefebvre himself … Continue reading →

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Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power

Posted on March 24, 2012 by stuartelden

For the past several days I’ve been writing – and almost as importantly, working with the images for – my lecture for Kentucky. At the moment it looks like it will cover… Area, Volume, Territory, Boundedness, the Volumetric, Political Technology, … Continue reading →

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Kentucky poster

Posted on March 23, 2012 by stuartelden

Nice poster for my talk in Kentucky next week – you can see the earlier ones for Michael Hardt and Russ Castronovo, and the series as a whole, here.

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