Category Archives: People

Strange review of Widder

Posted on August 22, 2011 by stuartelden

In borderlands, there is an odd review of Nathan Widder, Reflections on Time and Politics. Its strangest moment is in the final lines, when the author discredits their own review by pointing to a better one elsewhere, but the attempt … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Žižek on English riots

Posted on August 22, 2011 by stuartelden

In the LRB (via the Verso blog). Well worth a read, and it ranges quite widely to Egypt and the financial crisis, among other things. It does exhibit the general tendency that people looking into the events tend to find what they … Continue reading →

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Harman’s Meillassoux book

Posted on August 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Graham Harman’s new book Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making has been out for less than a month, and I’ve now had a chance to read it. The structure of the book is reasonably straight-forward – chapters on After Finitude, the … Continue reading →

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen on Writing

Posted on August 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Posts I’ve made on writing, i.e. here and here, have received some of the most attention of any on this blog. So people may find Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s post on writing useful. Lots of examples, good advice, and personal recollections.

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Three New Books on Lefebvre

Posted on August 15, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned Lukasz Stanek’s book Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research and the Production of Theory before, but it is now out. Benjamin Fraser’s Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience: Reading the Mobile City should be out shortly, and Chris … Continue reading →

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Territory, Communication, Speed

Posted on August 15, 2011 by stuartelden

In his 1982 interview ‘Space, Knowledge and Power’, Foucault and Paul Rabinow discuss architecture in some detail. It was originally published in the journal Skyline, so this is not surprising. There are some interesting passages, which I’m going over for … Continue reading →

Posted in Carl Schmitt, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Neil Brenner, Territory | 7 Comments

Heidegger, Cassirer (& Fink) at Davos

Posted on August 14, 2011 by stuartelden

Finally got round to reading Peter E. Gordon’s Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos. It’s an interesting book, on a key moment in European intellectual history. One thing thought was interesting was that Eugen Fink attended the debate – I knew … Continue reading →

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Fredric Jameson on The Wire

Posted on August 14, 2011 by stuartelden

Fredric Jameson, “Realism and Utopia in The Wire”, Criticism, Vol 52, No 3-4, Summer/Fall 2010, pp. 359-372 – find it here (and it appears to be freely available). Thanks to Oliver Belcher for the link.

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Buck-Morss, Hegel and Haiti

Posted on August 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History is a remarkable book. The core of it originally appeared as ‘Hegel and Haiti’ in Critical Inquiry. (That link takes you directly to the piece, though I’m not sure it should.) The essay is, … Continue reading →

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Writing rhythm and summer reading

Posted on August 11, 2011 by stuartelden

I have been getting into a good writing rhythm since I got back from Amsterdam, with a dedicated two hour slot each day when I write with no distractions, followed by the rest of the day on editorial work, other … Continue reading →

Posted in Edward Soja, Fredric Jameson, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Giorgio Agamben, Karl Marx, Politics, Territory | 5 Comments