Category Archives: People

Hobbes

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been without decent internet in the past few days. So England lost the football, but they won the cricket again, to take a 3-0 lead in a five match series against Australia. I’ve also been reading lots of Hobbes. This … Continue reading →

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New Foucault journal

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

http://www.materialifoucaultiani.org

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Cartographica – new editor required

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

Cartographica requires a new editor – Jeremy Crampton is coming to the end of his term. CALL FOR EDITOR Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization   Applications are invited for the editorship of Cartographica. The University of … Continue reading →

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Forthcoming Jakob von Uexküll translation

Posted on June 24, 2010 by stuartelden

Jakob von Uexküll’s A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans (together with his A Theory of Meaning) is coming out in a new English translation. Details here and here Von Uexküll is probably best known as someone who is … Continue reading →

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Another Althusius passage

Posted on June 24, 2010 by stuartelden

Even though these heads, prefects, and rectors of provinces recognise the supreme magistrate of the realm [summum regni magistratum] as their superior, from whom their administration and power are conceded, nevertheless they have rights of sovereignty in their territory [jura … Continue reading →

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Johannes Althusius, Politica

Posted on June 24, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been reading Johannes Althusius, Politica – a text originally published in 1603. I’ve become more and more convinced that there are some really important works between Bodin and Botero and the more familiar 17th century thinkers of Grotius, Hobbes, … Continue reading →

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Blind Beggar

Posted on June 23, 2010 by stuartelden

Because I was going to see Derek Gregory give a talk at Queen Mary this evening (which was very good), I decided to get off the tube at Whitechapel and walk towards QM and find a pub to watch the … Continue reading →

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In praise of Macquarrie and Robinson

Posted on June 22, 2010 by stuartelden

Both Graham Harman and Peter Gratton have posts up reporting on the news that there will be a new translation of Heidegger’s Being and Time. This is a revision of the Joan Stambaugh translation that SUNY published, done by Dennis … Continue reading →

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Cartographies of the Absolute

Posted on June 22, 2010 by stuartelden

Infinite Thought reports that Alberto Toscano has a new project underway. There is a blog and a forthcoming book written with Jeff Zinkle on cognitive mapping with Zer0. Looking interesting. Alberto was a PhD student at Warwick when I taught … Continue reading →

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Harman on Meillassoux

Posted on June 21, 2010 by stuartelden

Interesting post from Graham Harman on Meillassoux’s After Finitude here. Some small things to note – I hadn’t realised that the English translation of the book was not simply the same text as the French; there is a nice criterion … Continue reading →

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