Category Archives: People

Erlangen lecture – video available

Posted on August 4, 2010 by stuartelden

The video (and also, separately, the audio) of the lecture in Erlangen can be found in various formats here. (If you want to read the quotes, then I’d suggest the 640×360 one (Stream or Download) As well as a general … Continue reading →

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Hobbes and Rousseau

Posted on August 3, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been spending the past couple of days writing up the sections on Hobbes and Rousseau from the fairly extensive notes I’d taken. With Hobbes the focus is on his critique of the temporal/spiritual power division; his engagement with Robert Bellarmine, … Continue reading →

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Carl Schmitt collection announced

Posted on August 2, 2010 by stuartelden

Routledge have a page up for the book Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos, edited by Stephen Legg of Nottingham, forthcoming early next year. The price is very steep, but there should be a paperback at some future … Continue reading →

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Society and Space – new issue out

Posted on August 2, 2010 by stuartelden

Vol 28 No 4 of Society and Space is now out. Among other things, it includes a piece authored by Valérie November, Eduardo Camacho-Hübner, and Bruno Latour.

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Speculations journal

Posted on August 1, 2010 by stuartelden

The first volume of a new online journal, Speculations, is now available. Speculations is a journal dedicated to research into speculative realism and post-continental philosophy. Our aim is to facilitate discussion about ongoing developments within these emerging movements and related … Continue reading →

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Rousseau on writing

Posted on August 1, 2010 by stuartelden

In The Discourses and other Early Political Writings there is a very short text entitled ‘Idea of the Method in the Composition of a Book’. Rousseau here makes writing sound deceptively easy:  When one undertakes to write a work, one has … Continue reading →

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Erlangen – academic

Posted on August 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Some academic thoughts on the trip to Erlangen. The lecture seemed to go well. A good size audience in a nice modern lecture room in the castle – now part of the University. Though I knew it was being recorded … Continue reading →

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Zizek animation

Posted on July 31, 2010 by stuartelden

Terrific – even better than the David Harvey one. Thanks to Alex at Experimental Geographies for the link.

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Erlangen Cultural Geography lecture

Posted on July 27, 2010 by stuartelden

I’m finishing writing the lecture I’ll give in Erlangen tomorrow evening. I think I’ve managed to find a balance between a lecture that will work and one that will be sufficiently different for me to find it interesting. One of the … Continue reading →

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Roundup – Heidegger, Mièville, Cycle Maps and Badiou

Posted on July 27, 2010 by stuartelden

A new book on Heidegger, space and sculpture is coming out. Details here (thanks to Paul Ennis at Another Heidegger Blog for the tip). And I note that Being and Truth, a translation of the lectures from 1933 and 1934 … Continue reading →

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