Category Archives: People

Zizek, Derrida and other lecturers

Posted on July 4, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has a followup to my post on Zizek here. He draws an interesting comparison between Zizek and Derrida as speakers. I heard Derrida speak twice – once was a setpiece event in Oxford, which was called ‘A Short … Continue reading →

Posted in Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Peter Sloterdijk, Slavoj Zizek, Society and Space | 4 Comments

Zizek on the radio

Posted on July 4, 2010 by stuartelden

The Verso blog has the information that you can hear Zizek on the radio here. It’s available until 7th July. Zizek is right at the beginning. He’s given a fairly tough time by the interviewer, and it’s quite serious – though … Continue reading →

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Harman on translation

Posted on July 2, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has an interesting post on translation here. He suggests that English to French has increased the words used, and wonders if this is a standard thing. My sense is that it isn’t necessarily true – when translating Lefebvre … Continue reading →

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Zizek at the LSE

Posted on July 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Then for a bit of light relief I went to hear Zizek talk at the L.S.E. He really is a captivating speaker. It was about his new book Living in the End Times, but there were so many digressions and … Continue reading →

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Althusius, territory, and his sources

Posted on July 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Althusius refers to a few sources in his definition of the territory of the kingdom as the bounded place within which the law of the kingdom is exercised. I know that put like that alone it sounds pretty mundane: but … Continue reading →

Posted in Andreas Knichen, Baldus de Ubaldis, Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Johannes Althusius, Matthias Stephani, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Udalricus Zasius | Leave a comment

David Harvey animated talk

Posted on July 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Thanks to my colleague Colin McFarlane for alerting me to this… If the embedded video doesn’t work you can also find it here and if you prefer to see Harvey himself rather than the animation, that’s here.

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Roundup

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

Paul Ennis has a post about his nearly completed book Continental Realism (nice title, and interesting t.o.c.) Graham Harman has a fascinating post about reading, note-taking, planning, writing and editing here. I don’t work much like this – for a start, I … Continue reading →

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Descartes on Hobbes

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

Hobbes didn’t impress everyone. From a letter Descartes wrote to Mersenne on Hobbes. unless I am very much mistaken, he is aiming to make his reputation at my expense, and by dishonest means (The Correspondence Volume I, 100). He then … Continue reading →

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Fanmail

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

If this letter from me is untimely, you may punish me by not replying: I shall be satisfied simply to have expressed my feelings towards you. I think I have read most of your works, partly in separate volumes and … Continue reading →

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Academic labours

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

A major piece of editing and translating work is Thomas Hobbes, The Correspondence Volume I: 1622-1659, and Volume II: 1660-1679, edited by Noel Malcolm, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. The correspondence was previously only available in part, but Malcolm gathered all … Continue reading →

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