Category Archives: People

Heidegger’s handwriting

Posted on March 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Came across this again (it’s mentioned in Speaking Against Number). Something very interesting in seeing the handwriting of people you’d only before read in print. With Foucault and Lefebvre I’ve seen originals in the archives; with Heidegger at the Heidegger museum … Continue reading →

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Matt Hannah – Dark Territory Review forum

Posted on March 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Review forum on Matthew Hannah’s book Dark Territory in the Information Age – here (requires subscription). Pieces by Neil Smith, Stephen Legg, Bernd Beliner, Patricia Ehrkamp and Jeremy Crampton, with a reply by Hannah. Such a shame about the prohibitive … Continue reading →

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Stephen Graham on Olympic London

Posted on March 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Great piece in The Guardian. As a metaphor for the London Olympics, it could hardly be more stark. The much-derided “Wenlock” Olympic mascot is now available in London Olympic stores dressed as a Metropolitan police officer. For £10.25 you, too, … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek on The Wire

Posted on March 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Link to audio and story here. Also provides the link to the Fredric Jameson piece I mentioned some time back.

Posted in Fredric Jameson, Slavoj Zizek | 1 Comment

Singularum – first issue on Alphonso Lingis

Posted on March 11, 2012 by stuartelden

New online journal – first issue is on Alphonso Lingis, including papers by Graham Harman, Timothy Morton and John Protevi. And there is an interview with man himself, taking photography and geography as the ways into his work, here.

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Urban Cultural Studies – new blog

Posted on March 11, 2012 by stuartelden

http://urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com/ run by Benjamin Fraser, who has written some interesting work on Lefebvre, including this new book – Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience: Reading the Mobile City.

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Materialism and World Politics – Millennium conference

Posted on March 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Update: this conference is 20-21 October 2012, not as previously advertised:

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Shakespearean Territories

Posted on March 7, 2012 by stuartelden

What begun as a distraction, and became an obsession, is now looking increasingly like a book project. As regular readers of this blog will know, I’ve been reading and thinking about Shakespeare for a while now. My thinking at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Territory, William Shakespeare | 4 Comments

Heidegger translations forthcoming

Posted on March 7, 2012 by stuartelden

As well as the new translation of the Contributions to Philosophy, which I’ve mentioned before, Indiana University Press also has listed forthcoming translations of The Event (Gesamtausgabe 71) and the Bremen and Freiburg Lectures (GA79). The first of these is … Continue reading →

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Interview with Alain Badiou in Berfrois

Posted on March 6, 2012 by stuartelden

The Crisis of Negation

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