Category Archives: People

Assange, Žižek, Goodman

Posted on July 12, 2011 by stuartelden

Julian Assange and Slavoj Žižek in dialogue with Amy Goodman here – there are plenty of excerpts on You Tube etc., but this is the full video recording.

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Leibniz’s work on life sciences

Posted on July 12, 2011 by stuartelden

Justin Smith – author of the excellent Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life (see my earlier comments here) – has a useful list of Leibniz’s works on natural science here.

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Novels read so far in 2011

Posted on July 10, 2011 by stuartelden

I mentioned back in January my informal New Year’s Resolution was to read more novels. Not nearly as many as Rob Kitchin – who has read and reviewed 52 – but so far in 2011, half way through the year, I’ve read… … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, H.P. Lovecraft, Novels read, Umberto Eco | 6 Comments

Reading Kant’s Geography paperback in September

Posted on July 10, 2011 by stuartelden

This is good news – a paperback is due in September, at just over a third of the price of the hardback. Details at the SUNY Press site.

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Engin Isin workshop

Posted on July 9, 2011 by stuartelden

Yesterday was spent in London at a small, closed workshop on Engin Isin‘s forthcoming book Citizens without Frontiers. Really terrific, inspirational discussions.

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Society and Space issue 4 out

Posted on July 9, 2011 by stuartelden

This year’s issue 4 is now out. It contains papers on topics such as Lefebvre, border crossings, the world cup, bees, the city as assemblage and planning in East Jerusalem; along with an interview with Sandro Mezzandra, and four linked commentaries … Continue reading →

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Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History”

Posted on July 5, 2011 by stuartelden

In working on my lecture on Foucault’s 1970-71 course I have been rereading some related texts, including the “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” essay. I know this text well, as I’ve taught it and it was a fundamental text in my PhD … Continue reading →

Posted in Friedrich Nietzsche, Mapping the Present, Michel Foucault | 3 Comments

Foucault’s History of Sexuality

Posted on July 5, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve been planning another book on Foucault for many years. The idea is to write a history of the ‘History of Sexuality’ – tracing the emergence of the project, the original plan, and the various revisions before it was left … Continue reading →

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Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on June 30, 2011 by stuartelden

The editor copies have arrived. Been receiving some nice messages from contributors as their own copies make it across the world… Publisher site here – one for libraries in the first instance.

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Reading Foucault in Nigeria

Posted on June 29, 2011 by stuartelden

The key work I did in Nigeria, aside from editing Society and Space, was on Foucault. This is for two, interrelated, projects. The first is to to write a chapter for the book coming out of The Foucault Effect 1991-2011 … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Michel Foucault, Quentin Skinnner, Reinhart Koselleck, The Birth of Territory | 3 Comments