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Sloterdijk Now update

Posted on January 24, 2011 by stuartelden

The Sloterdijk book is coming together. Nigel Thrift‘s chapter is now edited and ready to go. Entitled “Peter Sloterdijk and the Philosopher’s Stone”, it’s a discussion of the relation between philosophy and social science. Thrift is critical of some of … Continue reading →

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Mikko Joronen on Heidegger and globalisation

Posted on January 24, 2011 by stuartelden

Mikko Joronen was kind enough to send me a copy of his thesis/book The Age of Planetary Space: On Heidegger, Being, and Metaphysics of Globalization (University of Turku, 2010). It is available as a free pdf download here. Mikko has … Continue reading →

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Urban Camouflage

Posted on January 24, 2011 by stuartelden

In Sloterdijk’s book Der Welt über die Straße helfen (with Sven Völker, München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2010) there are some interesting images. Some are from the Urban Camouflage project of Sabina Keric and Yvonne Bayer. These are the first two images … Continue reading →

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Roundup – PhDs, Connolly, Banning Books, Congratulations

Posted on January 23, 2011 by stuartelden

Over at Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton has begun a new series of advice posts, this time on ‘How to Plan a PhD’. Will be interesting to see this one develop. Adrian Ivakhiv reports his first thoughts on William Connolly’s … Continue reading →

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Sloterdijk on Heidegger’s drawing

Posted on January 22, 2011 by stuartelden

Sloterdijk tells the story of how his Sphären project was inspired by Heidegger’s ‘artwork’. I was also fascinated by a chalkboard drawing Martin Heidegger made around 1960, in a seminar in Switzerland, in order to help psychiatrists better understand his … Continue reading →

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Review of State, Space, World

Posted on January 22, 2011 by stuartelden

There’s a review of the Lefebvre collection Neil Brenner and I edited (and translated with Gerald Moore) in the new issue of Urban Studies. From the conclusion Lefebvre has shown that we have “passed from the production of things in … Continue reading →

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Sloterdijk video

Posted on January 21, 2011 by stuartelden

This may be of interest to some people – Sloterdijk speaking at The Tate, London, in 2005. Unlike most of the videos on the web, this one is in English. There is a long introduction by Eric Alliez – Sloterdijk … Continue reading →

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Two more Sloterdijk chapters

Posted on January 20, 2011 by stuartelden

Two more Sloterdijk chapters back from revisions, and edited into final form for submission. The first is by Marie-Eve Morin, and is entitled ‘The Coming-to-the-World of the Human Animal”. The piece engages with Sloterdijk’s reading of Heidegger, especially in the … Continue reading →

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Next year’s teaching

Posted on January 20, 2011 by stuartelden

Yesterday was largely spent on administrative things at Durham. It feels very early to be planning teaching for the 2011/12 academic year, down to which lectures in which weeks and trying to ensure teaching doesn’t clash with the 2012 Association … Continue reading →

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Another Leibniz

Posted on January 18, 2011 by stuartelden

I’m continuing to read and think on Leibniz, as a parallel interest to other things I’m doing. I’ve just read Glenn A. Hartz, Leibniz’s Final System: Monads, Matter, Animals (Routledge, 2007; paperback 2010). From the book’s publicity Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was … Continue reading →

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