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Luise Fischer on Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on March 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Nice review of Reading Kant’s Geography at H-Net. The review is freely available, but here are a couple of excerpts: Stuart Elden and Eduardo Mendieta’s edition Reading Kant’s Geography is a masterful attempt “to remedy this glaring neglect” and to … Continue reading →

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Hallward interviews Chomsky

Posted on February 29, 2012 by stuartelden

In the new issue of Radical Philosophy – open access.

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Simon Critchley interview

Posted on February 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting interview with Simon Critchley here. It covers his new book Faith of the Faithless and a range of other questions, political, theological and philosophical.

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The Geopolitics of King Lear – discussion

Posted on February 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Here is the audio file of the discussion following my presentation to the Anachronic Shakespeare conference. It took a bit of work to clean up the recording and balance the volume levels a little better. The recording of the lecture itself … Continue reading →

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Kanishka Goonewardena on Lefebvre, State, Space, World

Posted on February 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Kanishka Goonewardena has written a review of Henri Lefebvre, State, Space, World in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (requires subscription). He begins with the ‘bad news’ that for a range of reasons Lefebvre’s De l’État is unlikely … Continue reading →

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More free papers

Posted on February 26, 2012 by stuartelden

Another five papers I have uploaded to this site: Elden, S. Heidegger’s Animals. Continental Philosophy Review. 2006;39:273-91. Elden, S. Kostas Axelos and the World of the Arguments Circle. In: Bourg, J. After the Deluge: New Perspectives on Postwar French Intellectual … Continue reading →

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Steve Mentz – A Poetics of Nothing

Posted on February 26, 2012 by stuartelden

Steve Mentz, author of At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean, is turning to the question of air: ‘A Poetics of Nothing: Air in the Early Modern Imagination’. March 2nd, 2pm, CUNY Graduate Center. Details here.

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Anachronic Shakespeare

Posted on February 25, 2012 by stuartelden

The Anachronic Shakespeare conference was excellent – a really interesting set of papers, engagingly delivered and with some really good discussion. John Archer gave a talk on sonnets 50 and 51 on the relation between human and animal, which he … Continue reading →

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The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth – audio

Posted on February 25, 2012 by stuartelden

This is the audio recording of my lecture at the Anachronic Shakespeare conference. The accompanying Powerpoint slides are here. Thanks to Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz for the introduction. There was a good, challenging but helpful, discussion afterwards. The recording for that didn’t … Continue reading →

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New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon

Posted on February 23, 2012 by stuartelden

New book from Ashgate – Beyond Foucault: New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon. Looks interesting, and especially for the largely Francophone contributors – shame about the prohibitive price. Clare O’Farrell wrote a preface. The intro is freely available here. (thanks to Foucault … Continue reading →

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