Category Archives: People

Leibniz

Posted on September 5, 2010 by stuartelden

Anyone who’s been reading this blog recently knows that I’ve been working on Leibniz, and little else, for the past few weeks. I can’t stress enough the difficulties I’m encountering in this work.  Part of the problem is that – … Continue reading →

Posted in Gottfried Leibniz, The Birth of Territory | 2 Comments

Moretti on Deleuze & Guattari and Derrida

Posted on September 5, 2010 by stuartelden

In a hundred-odd pages, the book by Deleuze and Guattari [Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature] contains a truly impressive amount of nonsense; just the opposite, to be fair, of Derrida’s essay on Ulysses, which in the same number of pages … Continue reading →

Posted in Franco Moretti, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida | 1 Comment

Kritike new issue

Posted on September 5, 2010 by stuartelden

You can find the new issue of Kritike here. There’s the Paul Ennis review of Braver’s book on the late Heidegger, previously mentioned here; a range of pieces including an essay on Heidegger; an article and subsequent exchange on Foucault and … Continue reading →

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Roundup – Iraq, Ihde, Meillassoux

Posted on September 4, 2010 by stuartelden

Roy Scranton on Iraq – part one of five – here. Scranton is an ex-soldier who served in Iraq, who wrote a very interesting article for City journal a few years ago – “Walls and Shadows: The Occupation of Baghdad”. … Continue reading →

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Foucault News

Posted on September 4, 2010 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell has moved the Foucault News blog to a separate site – here.

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Badiou, Meillassoux and worlds

Posted on September 3, 2010 by stuartelden

Very interesting post from Graham Harman about the Badiou/Meillassoux relation (both father and son). It’s most relevant for me given that my next project is on the idea of ‘world’ in a range of forms. L’inexistence divine was going to … Continue reading →

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The State of Critical Geopolitics

Posted on September 2, 2010 by stuartelden

Papers from a conference at Durham on the current state of Critical Geopolitics are published in a theme section of the journal Political Geography. Papers by Derek Gregory, Katharyne Mitchell, Gearóid Ó Tuathail, Simon Dalby and Jennifer Hyndman, introduced by … Continue reading →

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Foucault news

Posted on September 1, 2010 by stuartelden

For those people looking for a regular Foucault fix, you can now find it at Clare O’Farrell’s Refracted Input. As Jeremy says: Specifically the news page is here. Clare is well known in the Foucault community and the author of … Continue reading →

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Wu Ming London dates

Posted on August 31, 2010 by stuartelden

Two members of the Wu Ming writing collective speaking in London in October. Should be interesting. Details here.

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‘Juridicality and Territory’ – a brief historical response

Posted on August 31, 2010 by stuartelden

Over at Open Geography, Jeremy has a post about ‘Juridicality and Territory’, discussing the US and a potential assassination of an American citizen thought to reside in Yemen. In the context of the ‘war on terror’, the US has long … Continue reading →

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