Category Archives: People

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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Two more Sloterdijk chapters

Posted on January 18, 2011 by stuartelden

Two more Sloterdijk chapters are now in final, pre-review, form. The first is by Babette Babich and discusses Sloterdijk’s cynicism; the second by Eduardo Mendieta on the humanism/posthumanism/transhumanism debates. Both discuss Sloterdijk’s relation to Nietzsche, and the Mendieta chapter discusses his engagement … Continue reading →

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Marx Reloaded trailer

Posted on January 17, 2011 by stuartelden

Featuring Slavoj Žižek, Antonio Negri, Nina Power, Alberto Toscano… Trotsky as Morpheus is good too.

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Badiou interviews Foucault

Posted on January 17, 2011 by stuartelden

Thanks to Sean at Te Ipu Pakore for the link – a very young Badiou, and a fairly young Foucault (with hair). It’s in French, but if you click ‘cc’ you can get English subtitles.

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Badiou (and Žižek) on Wagner

Posted on January 15, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve just finished reading Alain Badiou’s new book, Five Lessons on Wagner. I approached it expecting to learn more about Badiou than Wagner, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. A few clues aside, without his name on the cover I’d … Continue reading →

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Espacios del pasado, historias del presente

Posted on January 15, 2011 by stuartelden

Just gone over the first version of the proofs of “Espacios del pasado, historias del presente: en torno a los rastros de la historia espacial [Spaces of the past, histories of the present: debating the traces of spatial history]”, which … Continue reading →

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