Category Archives: People

Wendy Brown – Walled States, Waning Sovereignty

Posted on November 15, 2010 by stuartelden

Bit late on this – Wendy Brown’s book Walled States, Waning Sovereignty is now out. I saw some of the material for the book in advance of her lecture at the Open University last year, and it’s well worth a … Continue reading →

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Sloterdijk – you must change your life!

Posted on November 14, 2010 by stuartelden

English discussion of Sloterdijk’s 2009 book Du mußt dein Leben ändern: Über Anthropotechnik here (via Sean Sturm here). Polity Press are planning a translation of this work.

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Oregon – geography talk and the RPA

Posted on November 14, 2010 by stuartelden

I gave a version of ‘The Birth of Territory’ talk to the dept of geography at the University of Oregon. Some good discussion and some very nice meetings with faculty and grad students. It’s a strong department with some interesting … Continue reading →

Posted in Bill Martin, Conferences, Enrique Dussel, Marie-Eve Morin, Peter Gratton, The Birth of Territory, Travel | 1 Comment

‘Radical Foucault’

Posted on November 8, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve just agreed to be one of the keynote speakers at an interesting looking conference coming up at the University of East London on 9 September 2011. I plan to speak about the as-yet-unpublished 70-71 lecture course Leçons sur la volonté de … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s first course

Posted on November 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Well, the first at the Collège de France. Amazon.fr have Foucault’s 1970-71 lecture course listed. It’s entitled Leçons sur la volonté de savoir – the ‘Leçons sur’ bit is presumably to avoid confusion with History of Sexuality volume I, when … Continue reading →

Posted in Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault | 3 Comments

Roundup – Guantánamo, Newcastle lectures, Foucault and space

Posted on November 8, 2010 by stuartelden

This is a bit of an ex-colleagues from Durham roundup. David Campbell has an interesting piece here on Edmund Clark’s Guantánamo exhibition and book. I’d seen some of the photographs themselves in The Guardian – here – but David’s commentary is … Continue reading →

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Books – availability

Posted on November 7, 2010 by stuartelden

Terror and Territory has now been out for a year, and is into its second printing. Despite how the Continuum website portrays my Mapping the Present and Understanding Henri Lefebvre, the books are not out of print, but out of … Continue reading →

Posted in Henri Lefebvre, Mapping the Present, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Publishing, Speaking Against Number, Terror and Territory, Understanding Henri Lefebvre | Leave a comment

Back to Ohio

Posted on November 7, 2010 by stuartelden

With the travelling I’ve not had much chance to write about my own work recently, and have largely been using this blog as an information service. I have been working on the book during and around the travel, and there will … Continue reading →

Posted in Bernard Stiegler, Conferences, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, The Birth of Territory, Travel, Universities | Leave a comment

Graham Harman writing news

Posted on November 7, 2010 by stuartelden

He reports here how he’s finished the book on Meillassoux, has a new piece in Cosmos and History, and talks about where he is going next: My next book project, which I cannot begin until the January holiday period, will be … Continue reading →

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Mendieta on Habermas and religion

Posted on November 6, 2010 by stuartelden

To coincide with the new book he co-edited on this topic, Eduardo Mendieta discusses Habermas and religion. The centrality of religion to social theory in general and philosophy in particular explains why Jürgen Habermas has dealt with it, in both … Continue reading →

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