Category Archives: People

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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Ennis, Post-Continental Voices

Posted on September 29, 2010 by stuartelden

Paul Ennis’s collection of interviews Post-Continental Voices is now searchable on Amazon. You can read most of the interview with me there. Thanks to Graham Harman (also in the book) for the alert. Of course, you can buy the book … Continue reading →

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Wu Ming on Robespierre

Posted on September 29, 2010 by stuartelden

Interesting (contentious, probably wrong) piece here. I briefly discussed Robespierre on terror, using the recent Verso book introduced by Zizek, in Terror and Territory. He’s worth reading.

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Society and Space issue 5

Posted on September 27, 2010 by stuartelden

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space volume 28 issue 5 has now been published online and is available here.  Among other pieces, it includes essays by Gary Okihiro, Nicola Ansell, Graham Harman and Trevor Paglen.

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Sloterdijk Now blurb

Posted on September 24, 2010 by stuartelden

Here’s the publicity blurb for the Sloterdijk Now edited collection I am doing for Polity, due out next year. Peter Sloterdijk is one of the most challenging and contentious thinkers currently working within the European tradition. This is the first … Continue reading →

Posted in Eduardo Mendieta, Marie-Eve Morin, Nigel Thrift, Peter Sloterdijk | Leave a comment

Boulainviller/Boulainvilliers

Posted on September 24, 2010 by stuartelden

Peter Gratton uses my last post to say something about his own work on Boulainviller/Boulainvilliers (the spelling is disputed) here. As I said in that last post, I’ve not read much of him so far, but he looks interesting. For … Continue reading →

Posted in Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, Henri de Boulainviller, Jacques Derrida, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Michel Foucault, Peter Gratton | Leave a comment

Territory book progress

Posted on September 23, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been making slow but steady progress on chapter nine of my territory book. A lot of this has been checking minor details in libraries, including original language sources such as the Latin for a few quotes from Newton’s Principia … Continue reading →

Posted in Andreas Knichen, Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Bogislaw Philipp von Chemnitz, Gottfried Leibniz, Henri de Boulainviller, Isaac Newton, James Harrington, Jean Bodin, Johannes Althusius, Johannes Hertius, Martin Luther, Michel Foucault, Philipp Melanchthon, Samuel Pufendorf, Territory, The Birth of Territory | 3 Comments

Geography Roundup

Posted on September 22, 2010 by stuartelden

Jeremy Crampton, author of the very good Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS, offers some thoughts on the new generation of GIS software here. Interesting observation on the relation between cartographic projects and the rise of the modern … Continue reading →

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Steve Graham seminar in London

Posted on September 20, 2010 by stuartelden

“Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails”, London Group of Historical Geographers seminar, 12 October 2010, 5pm; Wolfson room, Senate House, London, WC1E 7HU (via London Political Geography Network).

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