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Chapter Nine

Posted on December 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Chapter Nine is now done. This is the last chapter of the book, which means I’ve now worked through all the chapters in the revision I’ve done while in Seattle. I leave tomorrow. I’ve posted quite a bit about this … Continue reading →

Posted in Andreas Knichen, Bogislaw Philipp von Chemnitz, George Lawson, Gottfried Leibniz, Henri de Boulainviller, Isaac Newton, James Harrington, Johannes Althusius, John Locke, Matthias Stephani, Nicholas of Cusa, René Descartes, Robert Filmer, Samuel Pufendorf, The Birth of Territory, Theodor Reinking, Thomas Hobbes, Udalricus Zasius, Walter Ralegh | 1 Comment

Leibniz, fossils, unicorns and the mammoth

Posted on December 1, 2010 by stuartelden

While working on Chapter Nine, I wrote a review of Leibniz’s Protogaea for Society and Space. It’s a fascinating book, in a very good bi-lingual edition, with some striking illustrations. Particularly interesting for the discussion of fossils, which is something … Continue reading →

Posted in Fossils, Gottfried Leibniz, Society and Space, The Space of the World | 2 Comments

Bi-lingual German philosophy texts

Posted on November 30, 2010 by stuartelden

Thanks to Enowning for alerting me to this site – bilingual pdfs of some major works of German thought, including Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger. An enormous amount of work here. If you want to check if it is Ursprung, Herkunft … Continue reading →

Posted in Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger | Leave a comment

Literary protests – image from Wu Ming

Posted on November 30, 2010 by stuartelden

Wu Ming kindly sent me a link to a better picture of the literary themed protests.

Posted in Politics, Universities, Wu Ming | 1 Comment

review of State, Space, World

Posted on November 30, 2010 by stuartelden

There is a brief review of the Lefebvre collection State, Space, World in the new issue of Contemporary Sociology. Although the book has been out for eighteen months, this is the first review to be published to my knowledge (leaving … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Henri Lefebvre, Neil Brenner | Leave a comment

Student Protests – K-Punk on the media; Wu Ming on the literature

Posted on November 30, 2010 by stuartelden

K-Punk offers a sharp analysis of last week’s events here, along with some good discussion of the mainstream media’s take on it all. I particularly enjoyed this line: It looks as if the situation might be starting to dawn on … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, Universities, Wu Ming | 2 Comments

Roundup – WW2 maps, Right-Badiouians, and the End of the World

Posted on November 29, 2010 by stuartelden

At his Open Geography blog, Jeremy Crampton mentions an interesting GSU magazine story on his research on the history and politics of maps here  Graham Harman engages with some criticisms of object-orientated philosophy here, and ends with an interesting suggestion about the relation … Continue reading →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Graham Harman, Jeremy Crampton, Medieval Studies, Politics | Leave a comment

Chapter Eight

Posted on November 29, 2010 by stuartelden

Chapter Eight is now done. It needed work in two main areas – expanding and developing the treatment of Luther; and dramatically cutting down the discussion of King Lear. The Lear material might make a journal article in its expanded … Continue reading →

Posted in Giovanni Botero, Jean Bodin, Martin Luther, Michel Foucault, Neil Brenner, Niccolò Machiavelli, Philipp Melanchthon, The Birth of Territory | 1 Comment

Chapter Seven

Posted on November 26, 2010 by stuartelden

The work on Chapter Seven in this redraft was minor. This is largely because of the amount of work I’d already put into this chapter; a chapter which caused me more textual difficulties than any other. The chapter discusses Roman law, … Continue reading →

Posted in Baldus de Ubaldis, Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Francisco de Vitoria, Hugo Grotius, Irnerius, Medieval Studies, The Birth of Territory | 1 Comment

OOO at UCLA

Posted on November 25, 2010 by stuartelden

Details here of a workshop at UCLA which looks great. Unfortunately I fly back to the UK that very day. Hello, Everything: Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented OntologyWednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 10:00-4:30  UCLA Faculty Center, Redwood Room10:00 Coffee 10:30-12:00 SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY SESSION … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Graham Harman | 3 Comments