The Birth of Territory reviewed in Antipode by Phillip Campanile

Posted on April 3, 2014 by stuartelden

12 The Birth of TerritoryThere is a critical review of The Birth of Territory by Phillip Campanile in Antipode (pdf). Campanile clearly found the book frustrating in its mode of execution, but also not linked explicitly enough to contemporary debates. As he rightly notes, though, the book sits alongside my earlier Terror and Territory, which I always saw as the best answer I can provide to why this all matters today. Nonetheless, a disappointing review.

Update: Peter Gratton has a nice discussion of the review here.

Update 2: Phillip Campanile replies in comments.

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Henri Lefebvre, The Critique of Everyday Life – One Volume Edition

Posted on April 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Lefebvre_-_Critique848 pages of Henri Lefebvre – The Critique of Everyday Life: The One-Volume Edition.

Three volumes in one – the first volume comes from 1947, with a second edition in 1958 that almost doubles its length; the second volume from 1961; the third from 1981. There are other connected books too – Everyday Life in the Modern World from 1968 and Elements of Rhythmanalysis from 1992…

My suggestions for where to start with reading Lefebvre are here.

 

 

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Why Google Maps gets Africa wrong

Posted on April 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Decent piece in The Guardian on maps and projections in relation to Africa. I often use examples just like this at the beginning of courses on territory and geopolitics.

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Jonathan Bate on writing a biography of Ted Hughes – copyright, author estates and family members

Posted on April 3, 2014 by stuartelden

A very interesting piece in The Guardian by Jonathan Bate about his writing of a biography of Ted Hughes. The issues are much wider than this particular case, and concern copyright, author estates and the role of family members. There are resonances with the situation with the three thinkers I’ve written on most – Heidegger, Foucault and Lefebvre.

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Henri Lefebvre, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment – online preview of introduction

Posted on April 2, 2014 by stuartelden

imageThe introduction to Lefebvre’s keenly anticipated Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is available to read online at Artforum.

I will be interviewing editor Łukasz Stanek for the Society and Space open site in the near future.

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The 2014 Antipode AAG Lecture – ‘Zones of Black Death: Institutions, Knowledges, and States of Being’ by Rinaldo Walcott

Posted on April 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Antipode’s 2014 AAG lecture details.

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Join us for session 2626 in Tampa, Florida – Wednesday 9th April from 4:40pm to 6:20pm in Ballroom A, TCC/Tampa Convention Center, First Floor. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception, thanks to our publisher, Wiley.

The 2014 Antipode AAG Lecture will be presented by Rinaldo Walcott. Entitled, ‘Zones of Black Death: Institutions, Knowledges, and States of Being’, Rinaldo’s paper will track the ways in which black life persists in the midst of practices, institutions, and knowledges meant to extinguish such life. The paper takes the geographies of the Americas as one zone in which black death is the foundation upon which institutions, modes of being, and other forms of life stake their claims on the world. In other words, the paper suggests that black death is a pre-condition for the common sense and being of contemporary life. The paper reflects on black death by drawing on the…

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Wahida Khandker, Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences – interview

Posted on April 2, 2014 by stuartelden

philosophy-animality-and-the-life-sciencesWahida Khandker’s book Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences is forthcoming in July with Edinburgh University Press.

A study of pathological concepts of animal life in Continental philosophy from Bergson to Haraway

Using animals for scientific research is a highly contentious issue that Continental philosophers engaging with ‘the animal question’ have been rightly accused of shying away from. Now, Wahida Khandker asks, can Continental approaches to animality and organic life make us reconsider our treatment of non-human animals?

By following its historical and philosophical development, Khandker argues that the concept of ‘pathological life’ as a means of understanding organic life as a whole plays a pivotal role in refiguring the human-animal distinction.

There is an interview between Wahida and series editor Chris Watkin here.

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Books received – Derrida, Stiegler, Comay, Taubes, Azoulay & Ophir, Serres

Posted on April 2, 2014 by stuartelden

books received 1A number of books from Stanford University Press in recompense for review work.

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Books received- Jaspers, Thompson, Heidegger, journals

Posted on April 2, 2014 by stuartelden

Another pile of post today – three books by Karl Jaspers, including his Groningen lectures Reason and Existenz; Richard Yarwood’s Citizenship;the re-edition of E.P. Thompson’s Warwick University Ltd; the first volume of Heidegger’s Schwartze Hefte; and some new issues of journals. The Routledge books were in recompense for review work.

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Jacques le Goff (1924-2014)

Posted on April 1, 2014 by stuartelden

633611-histoire-le-goffJacques le Goff, medieval historian, has died at the age of ninety. I found his work really helpful while writing The Birth of Territory, and recently consulted his collection Hérésies et sociétés dans l’Europe pré-industrielle, 11e-18e siècles in which Foucault has a chapter. There are tributes at France Culture and Liberation.

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