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Sloterdijk Now cover

Posted on November 19, 2010 by stuartelden
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A busy week

Posted on November 19, 2010 by stuartelden

Gave a workshop on publishing with graduate students in geography at University of Washington on Monday, plus a few follow-up meetings. I was invited to come to a class in the Geopolitics course at UW, where the students had been … Continue reading →

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David Livingstone on Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on November 17, 2010 by stuartelden

A moment of Kantian enlightenment! In a splendid, interdisciplinary set of interrogations, the nature and significance of Immanuel Kant’s geography is brought into full light for the very first time. This remarkable work of retrieval thus enlightens, at once, Kant’s … Continue reading →

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Gratton on the world and calculation

Posted on November 16, 2010 by stuartelden

Responding to my comments on the RPA, Peter Gratton offers his own thoughts on the conference and the notion of the world here; and then on the question of calculation here. He does the latter through some quotes from Dominique … Continue reading →

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Brenner and Elden on Lefebvre, now in Italian

Posted on November 16, 2010 by stuartelden

The piece Neil Brenner and I wrote on Lefebvre – “Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory”, International Political Sociology, Vol 3 No 4, 2009, pp. 353–377 – has now been translated into Italian – “Stato, Spazio e Territorio”, translated by Pasquale Alferj, … Continue reading →

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Pierre Macherey – Hegel or Spinoza

Posted on November 16, 2010 by stuartelden

Pierre Macherey‘s Hegel ou Spinoza is coming out in English translation in late 2011, with University of Minnesota Press. The translation is by Sue Ruddick of Department of Geography at University of Toronto. Really great to see this come to … Continue reading →

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Roundup – King Lear, David Harvey, Medieval Cartography

Posted on November 16, 2010 by stuartelden

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen has an interesting post on teaching King Lear here. Lear is part of Chapter Eight of my territory book, and I know the section on it is too long. It will be difficult to cut it. I … Continue reading →

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Wendy Brown – Walled States, Waning Sovereignty

Posted on November 15, 2010 by stuartelden

Bit late on this – Wendy Brown’s book Walled States, Waning Sovereignty is now out. I saw some of the material for the book in advance of her lecture at the Open University last year, and it’s well worth a … Continue reading →

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Sloterdijk – you must change your life!

Posted on November 14, 2010 by stuartelden

English discussion of Sloterdijk’s 2009 book Du mußt dein Leben ändern: Über Anthropotechnik here (via Sean Sturm here). Polity Press are planning a translation of this work.

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Oregon – geography talk and the RPA

Posted on November 14, 2010 by stuartelden

I gave a version of ‘The Birth of Territory’ talk to the dept of geography at the University of Oregon. Some good discussion and some very nice meetings with faculty and grad students. It’s a strong department with some interesting … Continue reading →

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