Category Archives: People

Reading Kant’s Geography reactions

Posted on August 9, 2011 by stuartelden

Nice initial reaction to the Reading Kant’s Geography collection here, saying it “looks like a pretty interesting, perspective-shifting book”. Robert B. Louden’s Kant’s Human Being: Essays on His Theory of Human Nature is out this week. It reprints Robert’s essay from … Continue reading →

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Updates to Downloads and Talks

Posted on August 8, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve added three pieces to the ‘Free Downloads’ section – the RGS awards piece mentioned earlier today; a piece on Lefebvre in French that appeared in Actuel Marx (the English version later appeared in Historical Materialism, for which you would need … Continue reading →

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Speculative Medievalisms II

Posted on August 8, 2011 by stuartelden

Speculative Medievalisms II, with some excellent speakers (Graham Harman, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Patricia Clough etc.), is to be held in New York at the CUNY Graduate Center on September 16th. I wish I could be there, as the first was excellent (see … Continue reading →

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Speaking Against Number price reduction

Posted on August 4, 2011 by stuartelden

My 2006 book on Heidegger, Speaking Against Number, has been reduced in price at last. It has been over £50 since publication, and a paperback, though initially promised, never appeared. It is now available, in the UK at least, for … Continue reading →

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What I’ve done so far this summer…

Posted on July 30, 2011 by stuartelden

I posted my list of things to do this summer some weeks ago. I don’t feel I’ve been at my most productive by a long way, due to a whole range of things, but… The two introductions to the Sage … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Peter Sloterdijk, Society and Space, teaching, The Birth of Territory | Leave a comment

Foucault on Writing; Making Time for Writing

Posted on July 29, 2011 by stuartelden

From Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault site – reposted with commentary at her Refracted Input blog: Does there exist a pleasure in writing? I don’t know. One thing is certain, that there is, I think, a very strong obligation to write. I don’t … Continue reading →

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Borderscapes III

Posted on July 29, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting conference in Trieste next year – details here. Invited speakers include John Agnew, Arjun Appadurai, Luiza Bialasiewicz, Franco Farinelli, Vladimir Kolossov, Virginie Mamadouh, Julian Minghi, John O’Loughlin and Claude Raffestin.

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Kant – Physical Geography translation

Posted on July 27, 2011 by stuartelden

The Natural Science volume in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant is now listed, with a May  an August 2012 publication date. It includes a translation of the Rink edition of Kant’s Physical Geography lectures. Though there … Continue reading →

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Schmitt, Foucault, war

Posted on July 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Carl Schmitt, Writings on War is a new collection that gathers up some interesting, and politically appalling, pieces. Hopefully this will mean that The Nomos of the Earth is, in future, read in a wider political, and geopolitical context. By … Continue reading →

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Reactions to the Berfrois review

Posted on July 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Peter Gratton offers some thoughts in response to my review of Foucault’s 1970-71 course here. Interesting ideas about how the claims could be read as a critique of the crisis of legitimation argument in modernity. I think this might be … Continue reading →

Posted in Jeremy Crampton, Michel Foucault, Peter Gratton, Publishing | 2 Comments