Category Archives: People

Foucault, The Courage of Truth

Posted on September 12, 2010 by stuartelden

Although I’d read the French lectures, and probably could have written the endorsement for the English translation anyway, I did ask for the ms. and have now finished reading it. It’s a very good translation – again by Graham Burchell. … Continue reading →

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Leaving Nijmegen

Posted on September 10, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ll be leaving Nijmegen early in the morning to head back to London. The Alexander von Humboldt lecture seemed to be well received. It didn’t go quite as smoothly as I wanted but it was well attended and there were … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Gottfried Leibniz, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Territory, The Birth of Territory, Travel | 1 Comment

Political Life of Things workshop

Posted on September 9, 2010 by stuartelden

The Political Life of Things A One Day Workshop The Imperial War Museum, London, UK 3rd December 2010 Keynote 1: Jeremy Deller (Turner Prize Winner, 2004) Keynote 2: Jane Bennett (Johns Hopkins, author of Vibrant Matter)  The BISA Poststructural Politics … Continue reading →

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Book cover design

Posted on September 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Working with Eduardo and SUNY Press on the cover for the Reading Kant’s Geography book. Because the book is in the Contemporary Continental Philosophy series, we need to source some of Kant’s handwriting to provide the basis for the design. … Continue reading →

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Little-known Leibniz

Posted on September 7, 2010 by stuartelden

From Antognazza’s biography… His interest in mining went far beyond simply doing his job for the Duke of Hanover. He was given control of the mines in Harz and did a lot of work managing them and designing equipment. But … Continue reading →

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A few shorter pieces

Posted on September 7, 2010 by stuartelden

There will be a few shorter pieces coming out in the next several months. A piece on Lefebvre’s theory of moments, and his work on time more generally, for a book project entitled Learning from Vancouver. This seems an interesting … Continue reading →

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Library

Posted on September 6, 2010 by stuartelden

A pretty productive day in the libraries – Senate House and Warburg. I managed to track down a large number of the Leibniz references, although inevitably there were a few deadends. I also need to reread one text as I … Continue reading →

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Seventeenth political theory and its context

Posted on September 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Peter follows up my last Leibniz post with a different question. I was talking about how Descartes came just before Leibniz, and how Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza, Pufendorf, Newton were his contemporaries. Peter asks Here’s a perhaps naive question, but isn’t it … Continue reading →

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A little more on Leibniz

Posted on September 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Both Graham Harman and Peter Gratton respond to my Leibniz posts of yesterday, and then Peter responds to Graham. They both comment on what I said about Leibniz, and also on his standing as a philosopher. Peter then rightly questions the … Continue reading →

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Leibniz and Nijmegen

Posted on September 5, 2010 by stuartelden

I should add that Leibniz gives me a perfect ‘Hello Cleveland!’ moment for next week’s lecture in Nijmegen. The talk I will give with be a developed and updated version of ‘The Emergence of Territory’ lecture I gave in Erlangen in July.

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