Category Archives: People

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 →

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Foucault lectures

Posted on July 21, 2011 by stuartelden

Devin Shaw kindly links to my Berfrois review of Leçons sur la volonté de savoir. He mentions that I don’t elaborate on a point I make about the provenance of the material – “Unlike the other courses published to date, this … Continue reading →

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Review of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir

Posted on July 20, 2011 by stuartelden

My review of Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir is available here.

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Berkeley and Arizona lectures on territory

Posted on July 16, 2011 by stuartelden

The flight for my Berkeley and University of Arizona lectures in September is now booked. The lectures will be under the title ‘How should we do the history of territory?’ – which some may spot is a tribute to the piece Ian … Continue reading →

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Two sides of Žižek

Posted on July 16, 2011 by stuartelden

Interview in The Guardian, and criticism of his views on Israel and Gaza in Counter Punch. [Update: there is also a short video of him on The Guardian website]

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This Is Not The End Of The Book

Posted on July 13, 2011 by stuartelden

Just finished reading Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carrière’s book-length series of dialogues This Is Not The End Of The Book. It’s an interesting, engaging and sometimes annoyingly showy discussion, ranging widely across book-related topics such as libraries, editing, publishing, private collections, … Continue reading →

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Derrida, Heidegger, Moretti

Posted on July 13, 2011 by stuartelden

The project of translating Derrida’s seminars has a website. It includes dates for forthcoming volumes. A set of audio and video recordings on and by Heidegger is now available here. Includes pieces by Gadamer, Sloterdijk and Fink (thanks to Enowning for the link). … Continue reading →

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