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Political Theology and Early Modernity

Posted on May 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting looking collection edited by Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton, with a postface by Etienne Balibar. Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and … Continue reading →

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Books, Carl Schmitt, Etienne Balibar, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Walter Benjamin, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Political Geology: Stratigraphies of Power

Posted on May 5, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ll be speaking at a conference on Political Geology: Stratigraphies of Power on 21 June at Lancaster University  – I’ll be giving an abbreviated version of the ‘Fossils’ paper I gave in Canberra and Macau last year. Thanks to Kathryn Yusoff … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Elizabeth Grosz, Felix Guattari, Fossils, Gilles Deleuze, The Space of the World | 4 Comments

Mark Purcell on Lefebvre, State, Space, World

Posted on May 5, 2012 by stuartelden

There is a very generous review of Lefebvre’s State, Space, World collection by Mark Purcell in the new issue of Social and Cultural Geography (requires subscription). [Update: Mark has posted the whole thing here] Let me say this plainly: this is … Continue reading →

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Outside Territory in Nottingham

Posted on May 4, 2012 by stuartelden

After the Paris event we were up early the next morning to get the Eurostar to London, and then a train to Nottingham – made a little trickier by the ASLEF strike action (but a strike that doesn’t disrupt things isn’t a … Continue reading →

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Outside Territory in Paris

Posted on May 4, 2012 by stuartelden

The conference of Ruti Sela and Mayaan Amir’s ‘Exterritory‘ project in Paris was a really interesting event. Sponsored by the Kadist Foundation and the Evens Foundation, it was held in a remarkable space – Le Comptoir Général. As the rain came down, it was … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies issue 13

Posted on May 4, 2012 by stuartelden

A Special Issue on Foucault and Accounting guest edited by Andrea Mennicken & Peter Miller Issue 13 also includes original articles on parrhesia, classical scholarship and Foucault’s ‘German moment’ as well as a review essay on Foucault’s 1970-1971 course on … Continue reading →

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William E. Connolly on Melancholia

Posted on May 1, 2012 by stuartelden

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Development Dialogue new issue

Posted on April 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Special issue on The End of the Development-Security Nexus? The Rise of Global Disaster Management – freely available. Stephen Graham, David Chandler, Mark Duffield, Julian Reid et. al.

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Slavoj Zizek, David Horowitz, Julian Assange

Posted on April 27, 2012 by stuartelden

‘This was madness’. Indeed. Via the Verso blog.

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The Winter’s Tale and Henry V

Posted on April 26, 2012 by stuartelden

I spent the last two evenings at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, seeing the Propeller company do The Winter’s Tale and Henry V. They are an all-male company, which leads to some interesting scenes, though I thought it worked better for … Continue reading →

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