Category Archives: People

Harman’s brief thoughts on Sloterdijk

Posted on January 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Graham Harman offers some brief thoughts on the Anglophone reception of Sloterdijk here. He mentions one of the recent collections on his work to appear in English, In Media Res – which is also available open access. I think Graham is … Continue reading →

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Lefebvre and Urban Revolution in New York

Posted on January 19, 2012 by stuartelden

For those in the New York area, this series of conversations should be of interest – details here. Speakers include Stanley Aronowitz, Neil Brenner, Manu Goswami, Stefan Kipfer, Kristin Ross and others. Thanks to David Wachsmuth for the link.

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Chris Philo on the ‘new Foucault’

Posted on January 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Chris Philo discusses the Foucault lecture courses, and their potential for human geography, in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (requires subscription). This paper argues that we may now speak of a ‘new Foucault’ with more to say to … Continue reading →

Posted in Michel Foucault, Nigel Thrift | 3 Comments

Pierre Macherey – where to start?

Posted on January 13, 2012 by stuartelden

I was sent the following query as a followup to the recent post on the review of Macherey’s Hegel or Spinoza: With all the recent notices over the new translation of Pierre Macherey’s Hegel or Spinoza, I was thinking of … Continue reading →

Posted in Etienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière, Louis Althusser, Pierre Macherey | 5 Comments

Jason Read on Pierre Macherey, Hegel or Spinoza

Posted on January 13, 2012 by stuartelden

This is a good, detailed review of the recently published translation of Pierre Macherey, Hegel or Spinoza. You can read a brief interview I did with the translator, Susan Ruddick, here. Society and Space published a version of the introduction and … Continue reading →

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Pierre Macherey, Society and Space | 1 Comment

Slavoj Žižek on Ralph Fiennes’s film of Coriolanus

Posted on January 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Slavoj Žižek discusses Ralph Fiennes’s film of Coriolanus in the New Statesman (thanks to Paul Harrison for the link). Rather too much about 300, but some interesting comments. I am not convinced that Coriolanus is better than Hamlet. T.S. Eliot (who actually … Continue reading →

Posted in Slavoj Zizek, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

Novels read in 2011 part 2

Posted on January 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Given the number of these that are not really novels, this list should probably be retitled ‘books I read that are not for work reasons…’ Not as many as the first half of the year, but that’s probably a product … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Cycling, Martin Heidegger, Novels read, Stephen Greenblatt, Umberto Eco, William Shakespeare | 5 Comments

End of 2011, and a look to 2012

Posted on January 7, 2012 by stuartelden

I meant to post this before I went offline for a couple of weeks for Christmas and a holiday in the Gambia, but didn’t do so. Anyway, it is a brief review of my 2011 and a look to 2012… … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Cricket, Cycling, Eduardo Mendieta, Immanuel Kant, My Publications, Peter Sloterdijk, Society and Space, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World, Travel | Leave a comment

‘Teritorij bez granica’ – ‘Territory without Borders’ in Croatian

Posted on December 22, 2011 by stuartelden

One of the speaking invitations I unfortunately had to turn down this year was to speak in Zagreb at the Human Rights film festival.  (You know you are busy when you have to turn down expenses-paid trips to interesting places you’ve … Continue reading →

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Marx as writer

Posted on December 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Roland Boer shares the preface to his forthcoming book  Criticism of Earth: On Marx, Engels and Theology. Very interesting on Marx’s manner of writing, and the contrasts with Engels.

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