Category Archives: People

Reactions to Terror and Territory

Posted on December 8, 2010 by stuartelden

A generous post commenting on Terror and Territory, by Devin Shaw, can be found here. Very generous: it claims that my account of sovereignty is “more nuanced than Agamben’s”; and that for a take on the rhetoric of the neo-cons, … Continue reading →

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Further Reading

Posted on December 7, 2010 by stuartelden

More books received recently… Jeppe Strandsbjerg, Territory, Globalisation and International Relations: The Cartographic Reality of Space – I wrote an endorsement for this, and it’s good to see it out. Needless to say it is highly recommended. Nathan Widder, Reflections on … Continue reading →

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ALGC conference – Aberystwyth

Posted on December 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Speaking of Connolly, he is the keynote speaker at this conference – I spoke at the one earlier this yearand it’s highly recommended as an interesting intellectual space. The 9th Aberystwyth-Lancaster Graduate Colloquium 2nd- 4th June 2011 Department of International … Continue reading →

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Connolly’s World

Posted on December 6, 2010 by stuartelden

An exciting looking new book by William E. Connolly, A World of Becoming, is forthcoming, apparently this month. Full details here, but here’s the description. In A World of Becoming William E. Connolly outlines a political philosophy suited to a world … Continue reading →

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Reading List

Posted on December 5, 2010 by stuartelden

One of the things about being away is the mountain of post to deal with on my return. These are the books received while away… some were bought, some were gifts, some were payment for reviews Peter E. Gordon, Continental … Continue reading →

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Alain Badiou, Five Lessons on Wagner

Posted on December 5, 2010 by stuartelden

Alain Badiou – new translation of his book Five Lessons on Wagner is out with Verso. Also has an afterward by Slavoj Žižek.

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Free Wu Ming

Posted on December 4, 2010 by stuartelden

You can download Verso’s translation of Wu Ming’s most recent book, Manituana, free here.

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Chapter Nine

Posted on December 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Chapter Nine is now done. This is the last chapter of the book, which means I’ve now worked through all the chapters in the revision I’ve done while in Seattle. I leave tomorrow. I’ve posted quite a bit about this … Continue reading →

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Leibniz, fossils, unicorns and the mammoth

Posted on December 1, 2010 by stuartelden

While working on Chapter Nine, I wrote a review of Leibniz’s Protogaea for Society and Space. It’s a fascinating book, in a very good bi-lingual edition, with some striking illustrations. Particularly interesting for the discussion of fossils, which is something … Continue reading →

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Bi-lingual German philosophy texts

Posted on November 30, 2010 by stuartelden

Thanks to Enowning for alerting me to this site – bilingual pdfs of some major works of German thought, including Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger. An enormous amount of work here. If you want to check if it is Ursprung, Herkunft … Continue reading →

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