Category Archives: People

Back to the Café Algiers

Posted on April 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Four years ago, Neil and I had a series of work sessions in the Café Algiers, just off Harvard Square. These were in preparation for the ‘Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory’ paper – though our acknowledgement of the Café itself got … Continue reading →

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Planetary Urbanization

Posted on April 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Fascinating wide-ranging discussion with Neil Brenner’s ‘planetary urbanization’ seminar relating to space, territory, urbanization, the globe, world, nature, the planetary, species, capitalism, the state, the anthropocene… readings by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Nikolaos Katsikis, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Erle Ellis, Sarah Deyong, Timothy … Continue reading →

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Coriolanus in Edinburgh

Posted on April 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Just as with New York – when I spoke at the Anachronic Shakespeare conference at NYU before the AAG  – I’ll be speaking about Shakespeare before the RGS in Edinburgh. This will be the first (only?) outing for my paper on Coriolanus. It will be … Continue reading →

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Now only 1056 pages – Žižek’s Hegel book

Posted on April 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Graham Harman on the latest details of Žižek’s Hegel book. You can find the table of contents of Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism here. The Verso page is here.

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More downloads

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Elden, S. Rethinking the Polis: Implications of Heidegger’s Questioning the  Political. Political Geography. 2000;19:407-422. Elden, S. Some are Born Posthumously: The French Afterlife of Henri Lefebvre. Historical Materialism. 2006;14:185-202. Elden, S. Spaces of Humanitarian Exception. Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography. … Continue reading →

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25 years of Actuel Marx

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

An anniversary compilation of some of the best papers from Actuel Marx – details here. This is a journal that has been welcoming to my work – a piece here on Lefebvre’s posthumous reception, which later appeared in English in … Continue reading →

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Planetary Urbanization

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Left Kentucky yesterday and now in Cambridge, Massachusetts – staying with Neil Brenner for a bit before the Yale conference on 13-14 April. Neil and I are co-teaching a seminar at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on Wednesday as … Continue reading →

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Simon Critchley – The Faith of the Faithless and reading

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

via the Verso blog, an interview with Simon Critchley which mentions Obama and the Occupy movement, and a list of some of the books that inspired his latest book, The Faith of the Faithless.

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Graham Harman on Tristan Garcia

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Substantial review essay of Forme et objet here

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Quentin Meillassoux – The Number and the Siren

Posted on March 29, 2012 by stuartelden

Meillassoux’s second book is forthcoming with Urbanomic in May, translated by Robin MacKay. Details here.  

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