Category Archives: People

Hiking and Reading

Posted on August 9, 2010 by stuartelden

The weekend was spent hiking with Susan and friends in the Peak District, around the village of Edale. On Saturday, we went up to the plateau of Kinder Scout (and got absolutely drenched); and on Sunday up Mam Tor and … Continue reading →

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Reading Kant’s Geography

Posted on August 5, 2010 by stuartelden

Even though it’s not out for almost a year still, SUNY Press now have a page up for the Reading Kant’s Geography collection Eduardo Mendieta and I edited. Perspectives on Kant’s teachings on geography and how they relate his understanding … Continue reading →

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Gratton on Stiegler

Posted on August 5, 2010 by stuartelden

Since Peter Gratton kindly links to my Erlangen lecture, it is perhaps appropriate to link to his review of Bernard Stiegler’s book Taking Care of Youth and the Generations. Gratton’s critique is pretty compelling, and I have to confess I’ve … Continue reading →

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Toscano discusses Fanaticism

Posted on August 4, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned Alberto Toscano’s interesting book Fanaticism before. Here he is talking about the book on Radio 4 with Laurie Taylor and John Gray (begins about 14 minutes in) and in a video on The Guardian website. And this is … Continue reading →

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Erlangen lecture – video available

Posted on August 4, 2010 by stuartelden

The video (and also, separately, the audio) of the lecture in Erlangen can be found in various formats here. (If you want to read the quotes, then I’d suggest the 640×360 one (Stream or Download) As well as a general … Continue reading →

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Hobbes and Rousseau

Posted on August 3, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been spending the past couple of days writing up the sections on Hobbes and Rousseau from the fairly extensive notes I’d taken. With Hobbes the focus is on his critique of the temporal/spiritual power division; his engagement with Robert Bellarmine, … Continue reading →

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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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