Category Archives: People

Discussion with Adam Ramadan, Cambridge, 16 February 2012

The talk for the 16 February 2012, 7pm, at the Cambridge University Geographical Society will be in the form of a discussion with Adam Ramadan. We will be talking about my political work on territory in Terror and Territory; the more recent historical … Continue reading

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Five more free downloads

Another five papers I have uploaded to this site Elden, S. Contingent Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity and the Sanctity of Borders. SAIS Review of International Affairs. 2006;29:11-24. Elden, S. Dialectics and the Measure of the World. Environment and Planning A. 2008;40:2641-51. … Continue reading

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Anachronic Shakespeare poster

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Marx Reloaded UK premiere

Details here; and an interview with the director here.

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Greenblatt, Shakespeare’s Freedom

A sample of Stephen Greenblatt’s Shakespeare’s Freedom is freely available at Berfrois. Berfrois will also be publishing my short piece on the new Ralph Fiennes film Coriolanus sometime in the next couple of weeks.

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Anachronic Shakespeare programme

Really looking forward to this… been promised a ‘sexy poster’ at some point, so this is just the text and details. Anachronic Shakespeare A Poetics and Theory Conference February 24-February 25, 2012 New York University Jurow Hall, Silver Center 100 … Continue reading

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Boys Town Redux – Society and Space virtual theme issue

Mary Thomas has put together a virtual theme issue of Society and Space, with 12 papers from the archive made open access for a limited time and an introduction. The inspiration is the twentieth anniversary of Rosalyn Deutsche’s critique of … Continue reading

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Leeds talk on territory – this week

This week I make the short trip to the University of Leeds to give the lecture ‘How should we do the history of territory?” This is the same talk I gave at KCL last week. Full details here.

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Five free downloads

I’ve uploaded the pdfs of these five papers. I’ll put another five up when I have the chance. This page has the complete list of all the things I know are available free online. Elden, S. Another sense of Demos: … Continue reading

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The Post-Kantian Poe

Call for papers for The Edgar Allan Poe Review – The editors invite original essays that address the influence of German Idealist and Romantic thought upon Edgar Allan Poe. While it has become a critical commonplace that Poe both makes … Continue reading

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