Burning Issues: Geopolitics Today – webpage for Warwick class

Posted on October 1, 2013 by stuartelden

My MA lecture class at Warwick, Burning Issues: Geopolitics Today now has a webpage.

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Speaking about Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon

Posted on October 1, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ll be briefly talking about the Shakespearean territories project at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon on 11 October. Coals to Newcastle…

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Books received

Posted on October 1, 2013 by stuartelden

books received 1 Oct 2013Timothy Mitchell’s Carbon Democracy (this keeps coming up in conversations and papers); a fascinating-looking new book on The Concept of World from Kant to Derrida; William Connolly’s new The Fragility of Things; a biography of Hegel; and the two volumes of Sergei Prozorov’s Void Universalism – Ontology and World Politicsand Theory of the Political Subject (thanks Nick). Should keep me busy.

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Weapon of the Strong – Special Extract | Judith Butler

Posted on October 1, 2013 by stuartelden

An interview with Judith Butler, extracted from a forthcoming book.

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We are now at figureground.org

Posted on September 30, 2013 by stuartelden

Figureground moves home, and interviews Latour.

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In good company – Agamben, Badiou, Negri, Amin, Harvey, Flusser, Elden

Posted on September 30, 2013 by stuartelden

Critical Theory’s seven books that came out in September.

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The New York Times redraws borders in the Arabian peninsula

Posted on September 30, 2013 by stuartelden

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The New York Times (via The Afternoon Map).

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Review of the ‘two Princes’

Posted on September 29, 2013 by stuartelden

Geographer Nigel Clark reviews Graham Harman on, and in dialogue with, Bruno Latour – pdf is open access.

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Nigel Clark’s review of Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics and The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE in the August 2013 issue of Contemporary Political Theory [PDF].

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Books received

Posted on September 27, 2013 by stuartelden

books received 27 SeptTwo books for the Foucault project – a collection of pieces on the first volume of the History of Sexuality, and the only other volume of Les Vies Parallèles series Foucault initiated (the first was the Herculine Barbin memoir); David Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital, Volume 2; Critchley & Webster’s The Hamlet Doctrine; Constantine Fasolt’s remarkable The Limits of History (newly in paperback); and the new issue of Transactions.

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My review of Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy

Posted on September 27, 2013 by stuartelden

144434997XMy review of Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy has now been published in Global Discourse (requires subscription). A limited number of downloads are available here. If that expires, please let me know if you’d like a copy.

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