Category Archives: People

Post-Christmas Roundup

Posted on January 2, 2011 by stuartelden

Now that I’m back, there is lots to catch up on… New biography of Claude Lévi-Strauss – details here The Speculative Turn is now out. Details here – either order as a print volume or download a free pdf. Edited … Continue reading →

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2011 publications preview

Posted on December 17, 2010 by stuartelden

2011 should see both the Kant and Sloterdijk edited books out, in June and November respectively. In addition the Environment and Planning collection (five volumes) with Sage should be out late in the year. I have chapters in these books … Continue reading →

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Jakob von Uexküll reactions

Posted on December 16, 2010 by stuartelden

I mentioned a few months ago that a new translation of von Uexküll’s A Foray into the World of Animals was coming out. Details of the translation here. There are a range of reactions now that it’s available – here (via … Continue reading →

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Audio from two London conferences

Posted on December 15, 2010 by stuartelden

I posted details of these two conferences before. The Political Life of Things (3 Dec, Imperial War Museum, London) – sound archive here, including Jane Bennett and many others Vertical Geographies, Royal Holloway, London, 8 December 2010, including Stephen Graham, … Continue reading →

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‘Rolling Towards the Police in your Wheelchair’

Posted on December 14, 2010 by stuartelden

This is the BBC interview with Jody McIntyre that has produced such anger. Lots of people complained. The BBC has apparently responded – details here; another reply here. China Mieville responds here.

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Foucault on Space

Posted on December 13, 2010 by stuartelden

I’d planned to spend time over the last week or so on the Sloterdijk Now manuscript, but a couple of chapters are delayed so that has been put back to the New Year. I’m also without internet at home which … Continue reading →

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Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on December 11, 2010 by stuartelden

Just finished doing the proofs of Reading Kant’s Geography. It’s a long book (ix + 372 pages without index), but I think it’s a good read – I feel I can be slightly objective since I co-edited it, rather than … Continue reading →

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Audio files of lectures on Foucault’s 82-83 course

Posted on December 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Audio files of lectures on Foucault’s 82-83 course on The Government of Self and Others are available here. This was a workshop at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, now at Kingston, on 2nd December 2010.

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Sloterdijk – Neither Sun nor Death delayed

Posted on December 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Neither Sun nor Death – the volume of interviews with Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs – still doesn’t appear to be out, despite being scheduled for November. The title comes from the claim that neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a … Continue reading →

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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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