Category Archives: Neil Brenner

Eduardo Mendieta (1963-2025)

Posted on December 31, 2025 by stuartelden

My dear friend Eduardo Mendieta died earlier this month. He taught in the philosophy departments of the University of San Francisco, Stony Brook University and Penn State. There is an announcement from Penn State here, and the news is also reported … Continue reading →

Posted in David Harvey, Eduardo Mendieta, Edward Casey, Immanuel Kant, Jürgen Habermas, Judith Butler, Neil Brenner, Nigel Thrift, Peter Gratton, Peter Sloterdijk, Society and Space, Stephen Graham, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Books received – Calvino, Malpas & White, Balibar, Villamizar, González and Astudillo, Saussure, Cheng

Posted on August 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Some books bought or sent recently – Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Jeff Malpas and Kenneth White, The Fundamental Field, Étienne Balibar’s Écrits pour Althusser, Carlos Salamanca Villamizar, Gabriela González and Francisco Astudillo (eds.), Estudios sobre la espacialización … Continue reading →

Posted in Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Etienne Balibar, Italo Calvino, Jeff Malpas, Louis Althusser, My Publications, Neil Brenner, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Henri Lefebvre, From the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography – a new collection of writings forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press, 2022

Posted on March 15, 2021 by stuartelden

Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton – Henri Lefebvre, From the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography – a new collection of writings forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press, 2022 [update: the University of Minnesota Press page for On the Rural is here] (cross-posted … Continue reading →

Posted in Adam David Morton, Henri Lefebvre, Karl Marx, Neil Brenner | 5 Comments

Books received – Neil Brenner, New State Spaces, and books from Duke University Press

Posted on August 7, 2019 by stuartelden

A copy of Neil Brenner’s New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question, sent by Neil, and some books from Duke University Press in recompense for review work. They are Stuart Hall, Essential Essays and Cultural Studies 1983; Ann Laura Stoler, Duress, Ernesto Bassi, … Continue reading →

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Neil Brenner, New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question – OUP, June 2019

Posted on January 18, 2019 by stuartelden

Neil Brenner, New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question – OUP, June 2019 The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are crystallizing. … Continue reading →

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Design Agency within Earth Systems (Part 3) – Neil Brenner lecture and Stuart Elden commentary

Posted on December 11, 2018 by stuartelden

Design Agency within Earth Systems (Part 3) – Neil Brenner lecture and Stuart Elden commentary. A discussion around the relation between the urban and territory.

Posted in Neil Brenner, terrain, Territory, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Design Agency within Earth Systems – 26 October 2018, Architecture Association, London

Posted on October 23, 2018 by stuartelden

Design Agency within Earth Systems – 26 October 2018, Architecture Association, London Further details here. I’ll be in discussion with Neil Brenner and Jose Alfredo Ramirez at the end of the event.

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Design Agency within Earth Systems – Architectural Association, 26 October 2018, Call for Projects

Posted on May 21, 2018 by stuartelden

Design Agency within Earth Systems – Architectural Association, London, 26 October 2018 I’ll be involved in this event, in conversation with Neil Brenner and other speakers include Marti French, El Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn. 8,000 meters above sea level … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2017

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

  I don’t think I read as many new books this year as previous years, and the ‘to read’ piles get ever higher… But these are the academic books published in 2017 which I particularly liked: Update: the lists for … Continue reading →

Posted in Arlette Farge, Bruno Latour, Caren Kaplan, China Mieville, David Harvey, Ernst Kantorowicz, Eyal Weizman, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Neil Brenner, Politics, Setha Low, Sigmund Freud, Theory, Uncategorized, urban/urbanisation, William E Connolly, Writing | 12 Comments

The Right to the City: A Verso Report – free ebook

Posted on November 8, 2017 by stuartelden

The Right to the City: A Verso Report – free ebook Special eBook collection on the most urgent question of our times: who is the city for? In 1968, the French Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre wrote “Le Droite a la Ville” … Continue reading →

Posted in Andy Merrifield, Bradley Garrett, Don Mitchell, Henri Lefebvre, Neil Brenner, Nina Power, Uncategorized, urban/urbanisation | Leave a comment