Category Archives: People

Zizek (again)

Posted on July 6, 2010 by stuartelden

The Verso blog has a round up of Zizek media events. His ‘Living in the End Times’ at the LSE lecture is available here. He will be on Newsnight on Wednesday 7 July, and This Week on Thursday 8 July.

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Taking Place – new book

Posted on July 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Two colleagues at Durham, Ben Anderson and Paul Harrison, have a new edited book out – Taking Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography. It’s published by Ashgate, and more info can be found here. You can download the book’s introduction for … Continue reading →

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Zizek in The Telegraph

Posted on July 6, 2010 by stuartelden

Interviewed here.

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Alberto Toscano – Fanaticism

Posted on July 4, 2010 by stuartelden

Just finished reading Alberto Toscano’s book Fanaticism. A very interesting book and a great project – a kind of genealogy or conceptual history of the uses and abuses of the term. Lots of interesting ideas and a lot to take … Continue reading →

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Zizek, Derrida and other lecturers

Posted on July 4, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has a followup to my post on Zizek here. He draws an interesting comparison between Zizek and Derrida as speakers. I heard Derrida speak twice – once was a setpiece event in Oxford, which was called ‘A Short … Continue reading →

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Zizek on the radio

Posted on July 4, 2010 by stuartelden

The Verso blog has the information that you can hear Zizek on the radio here. It’s available until 7th July. Zizek is right at the beginning. He’s given a fairly tough time by the interviewer, and it’s quite serious – though … Continue reading →

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Harman on translation

Posted on July 2, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has an interesting post on translation here. He suggests that English to French has increased the words used, and wonders if this is a standard thing. My sense is that it isn’t necessarily true – when translating Lefebvre … Continue reading →

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Zizek at the LSE

Posted on July 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Then for a bit of light relief I went to hear Zizek talk at the L.S.E. He really is a captivating speaker. It was about his new book Living in the End Times, but there were so many digressions and … Continue reading →

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Althusius, territory, and his sources

Posted on July 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Althusius refers to a few sources in his definition of the territory of the kingdom as the bounded place within which the law of the kingdom is exercised. I know that put like that alone it sounds pretty mundane: but … Continue reading →

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David Harvey animated talk

Posted on July 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Thanks to my colleague Colin McFarlane for alerting me to this… If the embedded video doesn’t work you can also find it here and if you prefer to see Harvey himself rather than the animation, that’s here.

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