Category Archives: Politics

Archipelago/Funambulist Conversation between Léopold Lambert and Stuart Elden on Territory and Volume

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve linked to content on Archipelago – the podcast companion site to Léopold Lambert’s The Funambulist – before. This time it’s a discussion with me, conducted at the CUSP offices in New York, and mainly discussing my 2013 article “Secure the … Continue reading →

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Authority and Political Technology workshop – keynote audio recordings

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

Recordings from the recent Authority and Political Technologies workshop are now available at the Warwick website – Christian Borch, Luciana Parisi, Amade M’Charek, Louise Amoore, Costas Douzinas and AbdouMaliq Simone.

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Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions – first chapter online

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

The first chapter of Ben Anderson’s Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions is available online. The book will be out in July. Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, … Continue reading →

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Interview about the ‘Governing Academic Life’ conference

Posted on June 6, 2014 by stuartelden

In advance of the ‘Governing Academic Life’ conference later this month, to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Foucault’s death, an interview with the organisers.

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Books received – Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Lefebvre etc. (2 of 3)

Posted on June 3, 2014 by stuartelden

The new translation of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morality; Lefebvre’s Trois textes pour le theâtre; Virilio’s Open Sky; Trawny’s Heidegger und der Mythos der jüdischen Weltverschwörung; Harvey’s The Urban Experience; the new edition of a … Continue reading →

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Books received – territory, borders, architecture, government (1 of 3)

Posted on June 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Working through the post… Saskia Sassen’s Expulsions and Darshan Vigneswaran’s Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System – both to review; Jones and Johnston’s Placing the Border in Everyday Life – which I endorsed; and Lemm and Vatter’s … Continue reading →

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Tom Conley reviews The Birth of Territory in Imago Mundi

Posted on June 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Tom Conley reviews The Birth of Territory in Imago Mundi (subscription required). It’s a thoughtful, generous and engaged review. Here’s the first paragraph: Readers of Imago Mundi will appreciate this book for what it does along the fringes the history … Continue reading →

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National Academy of Sciences report on mass incarceration in the US

Posted on May 31, 2014 by stuartelden

This was mentioned at LeftForum yesterday, a major study and publication on The Growth of Mass Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences. The paper copy is for sale; but it is also available to download as a … Continue reading →

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AAG award citation for The Birth of Territory

Posted on May 30, 2014 by stuartelden

I announced the AAG Meridian award for The Birth of Territory before, but they have now posted the citation online: AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography This award is given for a book written by a geographer … Continue reading →

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The Other Adam Smith – forthcoming book from Mike Hill and Warren Montag

Posted on May 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Given the uses to which he is put – or, at least, his name invoked in support of – it’s easy to be critical of Adam Smith. This book, due out in December, sounds like it will provide both his detractors and … Continue reading →

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