Category Archives: People

Boys Town Redux – Society and Space virtual theme issue

Posted on February 6, 2012 by stuartelden

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

Posted on February 6, 2012 by stuartelden

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.

Posted in Conferences, Michel Foucault, Territory, The Birth of Territory | Leave a comment

Five free downloads

Posted on February 6, 2012 by stuartelden

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 →

Posted in Henri Lefebvre, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Peter Sloterdijk, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory | Leave a comment

The Post-Kantian Poe

Posted on February 5, 2012 by stuartelden

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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Coriolanus – Ralph Fiennes and the text

Posted on February 5, 2012 by stuartelden

I saw the Ralph Fiennes film version of Coriolanus while down in London this week. It’s good and worth seeing, though it has some problems, and does quite a lot of violence to the text (though not the plot) in the … Continue reading →

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More doubts about the Jeremy Bamber conviction

Posted on February 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Ballistics experts raise doubts as to whether the much-disputed silencer was ever used – report in The Guardian, and a video reviewing the case a year ago. I said something about this case in my piece on the Troy Davis execution … Continue reading →

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Rancière, Macherey, Balibar in review

Posted on February 3, 2012 by stuartelden

The Notes Taken rounds up three reviews.

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Macherey on philosophy and literature

Posted on February 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Some nice quotes from Pierre Macherey’s The Object of Literature “literature and philosophy are inextricable entwined. Or at least they were until history established a sort of official division between the two” (p. 3). “let us listen, then, to literature … Continue reading →

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Agamben – Homo Sacer structure

Posted on January 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Update: a new graphic of the structure is available here. Thanks to Nicholas Dahmann for this – the structure of Agamben’s Homo Sacer in graphic form… jpg and pdf.

Posted in Giorgio Agamben | 18 Comments

Thrift on refereeing in crisis

Posted on January 31, 2012 by stuartelden

In the Chronicle of Higher Education. Thanks to Sam Kinsey for posting this in comments – I’ve reposted so it is more widely seen.

Posted in Nigel Thrift, Publishing | 2 Comments