Category Archives: People

The Continuum Companion to Leibniz reviewed

Posted on January 25, 2012 by stuartelden

The Continuum Companion to Leibniz is reviewed at NDPR – the whole review is open access, so will only quote a couple of telling lines: On the whole, the volume is of exceptional quality. Each and every article represents an … Continue reading →

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Harvey’s new book

Posted on January 24, 2012 by stuartelden

Also by David Harvey, his new book will be out in April – Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. Interesting how he uses two of Lefebvre’s phrases in the subtitle, though the last at least … Continue reading →

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Harvey on Capital Vol II

Posted on January 24, 2012 by stuartelden

David Harvey’s lectures on Capital, Vol II will be available online beginning later this week. Details here. [update: now available here]

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Reading Kant’s Geography in Atlanta

Posted on January 20, 2012 by stuartelden

There will be a session on Reading Kant’s Geography, at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, 27-30 December 2012. No confirmed details as yet, though both Eduardo Mendieta and I plan to be … Continue reading →

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Air-Target and the Politics of Verticality

Posted on January 20, 2012 by stuartelden

Some very interesting looking pieces in a recent issue of Theory, Culture and Society – thanks to Oliver Belcher for the link. Will be good reading for my ‘volume’ work. Peter Adey, Mark Whitehead, and Alison J. Williams, “Introduction: Air-target: Distance, … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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