Category Archives: People

China Miéville on contemporary London full version

Posted on March 6, 2012 by stuartelden

I mentioned this piece in The New York Times a few days back. A fuller, illustrated version is here.

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South Asian Governmentalities Workshop

Posted on March 6, 2012 by stuartelden

30th March, British Academy,  London. Organised by Stephen Legg, and featuring papers by Colin Gordon and others. Full details here.

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Another Leibniz – audio and slides

Posted on March 4, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve put the audio recording of my AAG talk on Leibniz together with the powerpoint slides, and uploaded it to youtube. I had to re-record the first minute as the recording of that was incomplete, so apologies for the transition … Continue reading →

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More Coriolanus reviews

Posted on March 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Joe Glenton in Counterfire Monika Bartyzel in The Atlantic Dana Stevens in Slate Richard Corliss in Time Stephen Greenblatt in New York Review of Books (requires subscription) and mine in Berfrois

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Lefebvre and Democracy

Posted on March 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Mark Purcell has posted his AAG talk on Lefebvre and Democracy, here (via Clive Barnett, who offers a brief critique).

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Draft translation from Agamben’s Opus Dei: An Archeology of Office

Posted on March 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko has made available the preface, here. This book, and Highest Poverty, are being translated for Stanford UP. More here.

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Schmitt book now in paperback

Posted on March 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos, edited by Stephen Legg, is now available in paperback. You can also preview the introduction there. The book includes a slightly revised version of my piece on Schmitt that first appeared in … Continue reading →

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Macherey, Hegel or Spinoza – panel discussion

Posted on March 2, 2012 by stuartelden

The discussion of Pierre Macherey, Hegel or Spinoza at the Association of American Geographers included Keith Woodward, Susan Ruddick, Stuart Elden, Vinay Gidwani, and Warren Montag. You can find the audio recording here. I’ve posted the following before, but you can read a … Continue reading →

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Agamben translations under contract

Posted on March 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko has the news that he will be translating two pieces of Agamben’s Homo Sacer series – Opus dei: Archeologia dell’ufficio and Altissima povertà: Regole monastiche e forma di vita – details here. And here’s a link to the plan … Continue reading →

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China Miéville on contemporary London

Posted on March 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Powerful writing in The New York Times. [A fuller, illustrated version is here] London is full of ghosts — ghost walks; a city’s worth of cemeteries; ghost-advertising, scabs of paint on brick. The city invoked something, read a grimoire it … Continue reading →

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