Category Archives: People

Territory book update

Posted on October 9, 2010 by stuartelden

Last week felt like a really important step forward with The Birth of Territory manuscript. This week has been less dramatic, but good progress again. The discussion of Grotius and Selden now forms a brief coda to Chapter Seven which … Continue reading →

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Walter Benjamin on writing

Posted on October 7, 2010 by stuartelden

This is wonderful – Walter Benjamin’s writing rules, taken from Sean Sturm’s blog. I’ve read this before, but only now does it really resonate. I may say more about why in a bit. I. Anyone intending to embark on a … Continue reading →

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Reading Kant’s Geography – cover and endorsement

Posted on October 7, 2010 by stuartelden

It’s been a busy few days with the Reading Kant’s Geography book. Eduardo and I have been working on the copy-edited text, we have the cover design and a very generous endorsement from Chris Philo: This volume of impeccable scholarship and sustained critical inquiry performs … Continue reading →

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Sloterdijk in English

Posted on October 6, 2010 by stuartelden

I get lots of requests for what of Sloterdijk’s work is available in English. This is a really helpful resource for this – http://seansturm.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/sloterdijk-in-english/ I knew of most of these, but worth especially noting that Semiotext(e) have a translation of … Continue reading →

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Harman and Bryant cover images

Posted on October 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Speaking of cover images, Levi Bryant posts some wonderful artwork that will be used for his and Graham Harman’s new books here.

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Bush-Obama

Posted on October 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Tariq Ali has written a short piece on the continuities between Bush and Obama’s foreign policies for The Age. (Via the Verso blog.) It’s to plug his new book The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad – details here. … Continue reading →

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Larval Subjects on Spatio-Temporal Cartographies

Posted on October 5, 2010 by stuartelden

Levi Bryant gives a hint of where his work might go next here. From the post it’s clear his book The Democracy of Objects is just about done, and he’s now thinking about space and time. He mentions a few … Continue reading →

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New French Thought

Posted on October 5, 2010 by stuartelden

Very interesting set of seminars at The Public School in New York later this month. They focus on new French thought – that is outside of the 1960s/70s generation – and the thinkers covered are Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, Mehdi Belhaj … Continue reading →

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Chapter Nine

Posted on October 1, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been trying to concentrate on writing this week. My plan was to have a complete draft of all the chapters to take with me to Seattle, and that’s only about two weeks away and Chapter Nine needed some serious … Continue reading →

Posted in Bogislaw Philipp von Chemnitz, Gottfried Leibniz, Nicholas of Cusa, Samuel Pufendorf, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Theodor Reinking | 2 Comments

Meillassoux in Society and Space

Posted on October 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Some new forthcoming essays in Society and Space are available online here (subscription required). They include a piece by Quentin Meillassoux for a theme issue on mathematics, which should also include a piece by Michel Serres.

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