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Carl Schmitt collection announced

Posted on August 2, 2010 by stuartelden

Routledge have a page up for the book Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos, edited by Stephen Legg of Nottingham, forthcoming early next year. The price is very steep, but there should be a paperback at some future … Continue reading →

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Society and Space – new issue out

Posted on August 2, 2010 by stuartelden

Vol 28 No 4 of Society and Space is now out. Among other things, it includes a piece authored by Valérie November, Eduardo Camacho-Hübner, and Bruno Latour.

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Speculations journal

Posted on August 1, 2010 by stuartelden

The first volume of a new online journal, Speculations, is now available. Speculations is a journal dedicated to research into speculative realism and post-continental philosophy. Our aim is to facilitate discussion about ongoing developments within these emerging movements and related … Continue reading →

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Rousseau on writing

Posted on August 1, 2010 by stuartelden

In The Discourses and other Early Political Writings there is a very short text entitled ‘Idea of the Method in the Composition of a Book’. Rousseau here makes writing sound deceptively easy:  When one undertakes to write a work, one has … Continue reading →

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Erlangen – academic

Posted on August 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Some academic thoughts on the trip to Erlangen. The lecture seemed to go well. A good size audience in a nice modern lecture room in the castle – now part of the University. Though I knew it was being recorded … Continue reading →

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Zizek animation

Posted on July 31, 2010 by stuartelden

Terrific – even better than the David Harvey one. Thanks to Alex at Experimental Geographies for the link.

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Erlangen Cultural Geography lecture

Posted on July 27, 2010 by stuartelden

I’m finishing writing the lecture I’ll give in Erlangen tomorrow evening. I think I’ve managed to find a balance between a lecture that will work and one that will be sufficiently different for me to find it interesting. One of the … Continue reading →

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Roundup – Heidegger, Mièville, Cycle Maps and Badiou

Posted on July 27, 2010 by stuartelden

A new book on Heidegger, space and sculpture is coming out. Details here (thanks to Paul Ennis at Another Heidegger Blog for the tip). And I note that Being and Truth, a translation of the lectures from 1933 and 1934 … Continue reading →

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Links on Wikileaks, and Political Geography

Posted on July 26, 2010 by stuartelden

The Guardian has been running a live update all day about reaction to the Wikileaks, here. Loads of things to follow up there. Peter Gratton has a link to a post on links here. If you want to know the … Continue reading →

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Speculative Realism and Object-Orientated Philosophy

Posted on July 23, 2010 by stuartelden

Just in case you’ve ever wondered on the difference and relation between speculative realism and object-orientated philosophy (and object-orientated ontology) – and it can be confusing in a fast-moving field – Graham Harman clears it up here. What I like … Continue reading →

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