Category Archives: People

Literary protests – image from Wu Ming

Posted on November 30, 2010 by stuartelden

Wu Ming kindly sent me a link to a better picture of the literary themed protests.

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review of State, Space, World

Posted on November 30, 2010 by stuartelden

There is a brief review of the Lefebvre collection State, Space, World in the new issue of Contemporary Sociology. Although the book has been out for eighteen months, this is the first review to be published to my knowledge (leaving … Continue reading →

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Student Protests – K-Punk on the media; Wu Ming on the literature

Posted on November 30, 2010 by stuartelden

K-Punk offers a sharp analysis of last week’s events here, along with some good discussion of the mainstream media’s take on it all. I particularly enjoyed this line: It looks as if the situation might be starting to dawn on … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, Universities, Wu Ming | 2 Comments

Roundup – WW2 maps, Right-Badiouians, and the End of the World

Posted on November 29, 2010 by stuartelden

At his Open Geography blog, Jeremy Crampton mentions an interesting GSU magazine story on his research on the history and politics of maps here  Graham Harman engages with some criticisms of object-orientated philosophy here, and ends with an interesting suggestion about the relation … Continue reading →

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Chapter Eight

Posted on November 29, 2010 by stuartelden

Chapter Eight is now done. It needed work in two main areas – expanding and developing the treatment of Luther; and dramatically cutting down the discussion of King Lear. The Lear material might make a journal article in its expanded … Continue reading →

Posted in Giovanni Botero, Jean Bodin, Martin Luther, Michel Foucault, Neil Brenner, Niccolò Machiavelli, Philipp Melanchthon, The Birth of Territory | 1 Comment

Chapter Seven

Posted on November 26, 2010 by stuartelden

The work on Chapter Seven in this redraft was minor. This is largely because of the amount of work I’d already put into this chapter; a chapter which caused me more textual difficulties than any other. The chapter discusses Roman law, … Continue reading →

Posted in Baldus de Ubaldis, Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Francisco de Vitoria, Hugo Grotius, Irnerius, Medieval Studies, The Birth of Territory | 1 Comment

OOO at UCLA

Posted on November 25, 2010 by stuartelden

Details here of a workshop at UCLA which looks great. Unfortunately I fly back to the UK that very day. Hello, Everything: Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented OntologyWednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 10:00-4:30  UCLA Faculty Center, Redwood Room10:00 Coffee 10:30-12:00 SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY SESSION … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Graham Harman | 3 Comments

Heidegger on Hegel and Schelling

Posted on November 25, 2010 by stuartelden

Klostermann have news of a volume of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe in preparation for 2011 publication here. Volume 86, entitled Seminare: Hegel – Schelling, it’s projected to be 936 pages, which might well be the longest yet – GA16 was just over … Continue reading →

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Koselleck and Schmitt

Posted on November 24, 2010 by stuartelden

The new issue of Political Theory has an interesting piece on Reinhart Koselleck‘s notion of conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) and the relation this has to Carl Schmitt’s work. I quite like Koselleck’s work – or at least the basic idea behind … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory Miliband Lecture

Posted on November 20, 2010 by stuartelden

Ralph Miliband series on the restructuring of World Power War in the borderlands Derek Gregory Professor Gregory discusses the evolving character of conflicts in the borderlands of former empires and the blurring of the conceptual borders of war itself. Wednesday … Continue reading →

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